Web Glossary

Click on any letter below to search for a word starting with that letter in our Web Glossary

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Hacker
An expert programmer who uses his skills to break into computer systems or networks just for the fun of it, or to expose security risks. Unlike a cracker, a real hacker doesn't want to harm anybody or anything.

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Handshake
Handshake - The initial communication between two computer devices. The noise your modem makes as it is dialing in is the result of a handshake.

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Hash table
Table that contains pointers for easy retrieving some sorted information. For example, in the table above, each letter points to another page of Touchstone's Web Glossary. If you want to see words beginning with an "H", you click on the "H" in the hash table and a hyperlink will bring you immediately to this page, so there is no need to browse through the entire glossary.

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Hit
A single request from a browser to a server. Some servers also count each graphic on that page as a hit. For this reason, it's doubtfully to use the number of hits as an accurate measurement for the popularity of a Web site.

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Home page
Main page of a Web site. A Web site containing only one page, is also called a home page.
Our home page is located at http://www.touchstone-it.com/

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Hop
In reference to the Web, a small jump on the route from one main computer to another. It can take you 15 hops or more to get from your access provider to a Web server on the other hemisphere.

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Host
The server on which a Web site is stored.
Hosting companies store Web sites of their customers on powerful Web servers (with fast, permanent connections to the Internet).

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HotBot
Search engine at http://www.hotbot.com

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HREF - Hyperlink Reference
HTML code. Specifies a URL as the linked resource.

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HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language
Is the coding language that this page and all other pages are written in to create hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is a way to format text by placing marks ("tags") around the text. For example <B>TOP</B> in the code will display the word TOP in bold letters because the word is enclosed in "start bold" and "end bold" tags. It does however not work when displayed in output format such as it is in the previous sentence.

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HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
The World Wide Web protocol for moving hypertext (HTML) files across the Internet.

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Hyperlink
A highlighted word (or graphic) within a hypertext document (Web page). When you click a hyperlink, it will take you to another place within the same page, or to another page.
The phrase [Back To Top] on the next line is a hyperlink.

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Hypermedia
Pictures, videos, and audio on a Web page that act as hyperlinks.

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Hypertext
Text that includes links to other Web pages. By clicking on a link, the reader can easily jump from one Web page to another related page. Hypertext is what makes the Web go around and without it - it just wouldn't work!

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