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| https | |||
| When you see https a the the first part of web page address this shows that when you enter data on the page it will be transferred in a secure manner. This is the type of page that you want to see when entering anything you want kept secure such as credit card information. The address would look something like this: https://bigstorewebsite.com/shop.html | |||
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| A graphic or piece of text on the the page of a website which when clicked on will take you to a different web page or location on that page is called a hyperlink. It is the connection linking one page to another. The whole concept of the hyperlink is fundamental to the interactivity of the Internet. You can click and hop around from page to page and site to site using hyperlinks. | |||
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| Hypertext is a special type of database system where documents can be linked together with hyperlinks and thus explored in a non-sequential or random manner. The word hyper here means "bridging points within an entity such as a database or website non-sequentially". | |||
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A protocol is a
definite set of rules or standards. With reference to the
Internet, protocol is a standard procedure for regulating how data
between computers is transferred. So the hypertext transfer
protocol is the standard way website data and files are transferred
from computer to computer. It's basically how computers talk
to each other over the Internet. This is normally seen as the
http that comes at the beginning of a web address such as http://InternetAdvertisingDictionary.com
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