[Side Box: The technology and vocabulary of web pages]
The Internet: This term is generally used to describe any place a person can "visit" by using their computer and a modem. The term has a much more technical meaning (and excludes over half the things that are done with computers and modems), but for most people, if they sit down and use their computer and their modem, they are using the Internet. Sometimes abbreviated as the I-net, the Inet or the Net.
World Wide Web: This term describes the collection of "documents" available on the Internet. The term "document" is used as loosely in this context as it is used in some discovery requests and means anything that you can see or hear over your computer. the World Wide Web, WWW or Web, is the construct used to conceptually organize all of these documents.
To find a WWW location a person uses a Browser to go to an address. For example: http://www.texlaw.com will connect you to the Web location for The Texas Lawyer.
Web Pages: When the Net and WWW began as ARPANet, modems were very slow. For data to come from one computer to another, it often traveled at very slow speeds, and was not available for use until a segment had been completely transmitted. Even after the Net expanded past ARPANet, transmission times remained very slow.
One response to this technical limit was to break documents up into segments or "pages" that were sent (and used) one at a time. A web page is a part of an Internet location or World Wide Web that is the equivalent of a single document or file on a computer, but generally (though not necessarily) much smaller.
Browser: This term is used for the computer programs used to look at Web Pages and for the people using the Web to look at Web Pages. Browser is a very apt term to describe what most people are doing on the Web.
Home Page: This is the WWW equivalent of the back cover of a book, the cover of a firm brochure and a general purpose index. When someone logs on and sees your site, the home page is the first thing that comes up on their computer screen.
Generally a Home Page is a short document with links or connections to the other pages at your site that you want the public to look at. A Home Page is intended to keep the browser's interest (so that they will keep looking) and to link the browser to more information.
A Home Page thus combines being a teaser, an introduction, an index and a table of contents.
Professional Home Page: A Professional Home Page or a PHP is intended for business use and highlights a professional. It is the opposite of a Personal Home Page. (For a good example of what your bright teenaged child might do, see http://www.vol.net/~norns/).
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