Web definitions

WWW

An acronym for "World Wide Web". A 'universe' of web servers

URL

An acronym for "Uniform Resource Locator". World wide web URLs begin with http://

ISP

An acronym for "Internet Service Provider". A company that provides an Internet connection.

HTTP

An acronym for "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol". The protocol that enables Web browsing.

FTP

An acronym for "File Transfer Protocol". A protocol used to transmit files between computers on the Internet.

IP

An acronym for "Internet Protocol". A protocol used for exchanging data over the Internet.

HTML

An acronym for "HyperText Markup Language". A language in which most web pages are made with.

XHTML

An acronym for "eXtensible HyperText Markup Language". An extension to HTML, making the MIME type application/xhtml+xml.

HTML DOM

An acronym for "HyperText Markup Language, Document Object Model". A standard set of objects for HTML documents.

DHTML

An acronym for "Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language". An extension to HTML that makes use of style sheets and javascript.

XML

An acronym for "Extensible Markup Language". Allows you to make one master file that will generate a PDF, HTML, and Word copy of the same file.

CSS

An acronym for "Cascading Style Sheets". A language that allows many pages, styles be modified in one document.

Javascript

A script language from Netscape. Javascipt is not Java.

AJAX

An acronym for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML". A scripting language for web pages.

SQL

An acronym for "Structured Query Language". A database access language.

ASP

An acronym for "Active Server Pages". Enables Web pages to be dynamic.

PHP

An acronym for "Hypertext Preprocessor". A server side scripting language used for Web development and can be embedded in HTML.

lol

Laughing Out Load

rofl

Rolling On Floor Laughing

brb

Be Right Back

btw

By The Way

i k

I Know

afaik

As Far As I Know

asap

As Soon As Possible

afk

Away From Keyboard

bak

Back At Keyboard

aka

Also Known As

idk

I Don't Know

b4

Before

jk

Just Kidding

wysiwyg

What You See Is What You Get