Internet Terms

What is the Internet?
The Internet is a world wide network of computers that are connected (networked) and are using a communication method called TCP/IP. What is the world wide web?
Also called web or www, it is a collection of information, resources, pictures, sounds and multimedia which is on the internet and are connected together. Products such as Netscape make accessing and linking to web pages containing information easy.What is a domain name?
A domain name is a description or representation of a computer’s location on the Internet. It is usually separated by a dot.

What is DNS?
DNS (Domain Name System) is a large database of domain names and their correspondent Internet (IP Addresses) for example: www.eukhost.com corresponds to it’s unique number 69.20.54.201

What is a DNS server?
A DNS server is any software on a computer that translates the domain names to their correspondent Internet unique number (IP address).

What is an IP address?
An IP (Internet Protocol) address is an unique number used to identify a computer on the Internet. If you are connected to the Internet, you must have a unique network number, which is an IP address.

What is a host?
A computer that is used to transfer data on the Internet.

What is web hosting?
To store and make web pages available and ready for inquiries, or a computer that has a consistant connection to the Internet.

What is Hypertext?
Hypertext is text on a webpage that links to another document or webpage. The hypertext link can be as small as a letter or a word, or as big as all the text on the page.

What is a URL?
Uniform Resource Locator is a web address used to connect to a remote resource on the world wide web.

What is Port?
In relationship to the Internet, a Port is a channel that a server software would listen to for any inquiries, there are certain standard default channels set for certain server software. For example, a web server software by default will listen to port 80 for any inquiry. Web server software can also listen to any other port, for example: http://www.eukhost.com:5000

What is InterNic?
InterNic is the agency that governs and maintains the name and host registration on the Internet.