IGCSE - Chapter 5: The Internet and its uses Part 1

the world-wide interconnection of networks; it makes use of TCP and IP protocols

• internet
• World Wide Web
• (web) browser
• hypertext mark-up language (HTML)

a massive collection of web pages and is based on hypertext transfer protocols (http and https)

• World Wide Web
• (web) browser
• hypertext mark-up language (HTML)
• uniform resource locator (URL)

software that interprets HTML web pages sent to a user’s computer so that the user can read documents and watch multimedia

• (web) browser
• hypertext mark-up language (HTML)
• uniform resource locator (URL)
• hypertext transfer protocol secure (https)

the language used to design, display and format web pages, and to write http(s) protocols

• hypertext mark-up language (HTML)
• uniform resource locator (URL)
• hypertext transfer protocol secure (https)
• hyperlink

a text-based address for a web page

• uniform resource locator (URL)
• hypertext transfer protocol secure (https)
• hyperlink
• domain name server (DNS)

http with extra security (such as SSL) applied

• hypertext transfer protocol secure (https)
• hyperlink
• domain name server (DNS)
• cookie

highlighted text or an image that is activated by clicking and links to further text, images, a web page or a website

• hyperlink
• domain name server (DNS)
• cookie
• user preferences

a server that looks up domain names for websites (for example, www.hoddereducation. com) in order to find the IP addresses that a computer needs to locate the web servers (for example, 107.162.140.19)

• domain name server (DNS)
• cookie
• user preferences
• session cookie

a text file sent from a website to a user’s browser; it is used to remember user preferences each time they visit the website

• cookie
• user preferences
• session cookie
• persistent cookies

settings or options stored in cookies that can remember customised web pages or indicate browsing history to target adverts

• user preferences
• session cookie
• persistent cookies
• virtual shopping basket