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The Internet is the global telecommunication environment consisting of numerous smaller networks and gateways connecting millions of computers around the world. World-Wide Web is a part of Internet that consists of interlinked hypertext documents comprising global information system.

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WebMD

Internet; Websites

Online medical encyclopedia and personal medical consultation resource. Offers a variety of symptom and disease descriptions as well as medicinal advice and recommendations.

faq

Internet; Websites

Acronym for Frequently Asked Questions, being the quick or ready reference on common inquiries, product details, known problems and contact information for hardware and software ...

search engine

Internet; Websites

A program on the internet (certain websites) that are used to locate specific information needed by the user. Eg Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, Excite and others.

email

Internet; Websites

Exchange of messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network. E-mail messages are usually encoded in ASCII text. However, ...

download

Internet; Websites

In computer networks, it means to receive data to a local system from a remote system, or to initiate such a data transfer. Examples of a remote system from which a download might ...

mailing list

Internet; Websites

A list that contains email addresses of participants. Mailing lists are discussion via email that allows the moderator and participants exchanged ideas about a particular topic.

html

Internet; Websites

Standard scripting language that is used for the preparation of web documents.