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COMMONLY USED INTERNET TERMS

There are some basic terms that are associated with Internet. These are:

Web Page: It is a digital document on
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the form of text, pictures, animations, “Do not share your private
videos, etc. information on the Internet.”

Websites: It is a collection of related
web pages that provide information.

World Wide Web: It is a virtual storehouse of information. In fact, it is the largest
collection of electronic information which is stored in the form of websites.

Web Browser: It is a software that helps to view a website on a computer,
mobile or tab. Computers running the Windows 10 operating system come with

Microsoft Edge as their default web browser.
URL: It stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of a website, such

as www.google.com, www.rediffmail.com, etc.
Search Engine: A search engine is a program that searches through the collection

of web pages and helps us locate the website or information we are looking for.
Google is the most popular search engine. Some other examples are Bing and

Yahoo.

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USING URLs

URLs are the key to navigate the web. To open a website, type the URL in the
browser’s address bar that appears at the top of the browser window and then,

press the Enter key.

Suppose, you want to visit the website of Orange Education. To do this, you can type
https://www.orangeeducation.in in the address bar and press the Enter key.

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