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A measure of distance between two points on the Internet. It is equivalent to the number of gateways that separate the source and
destination.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language - The page-coding language for the World Wide Web.
HTML browser
A browser used to traverse the Internet, such as Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
http
Hypertext Transfer Protocol - The protocol used to carry world-wide-web (www) traffic between a www browser computer and the
www server being accessed.
ICMP
Internet Control Message Protocol - The protocol used to handle errors and control messages at the IP layer. ICMP is actually part of
the IP protocol.
Internet address
An IP address is assigned in blocks of numbers to user organizations accessing the Internet. These addresses are established by
the United States Department of Defense's Network Information Center. Duplicate addresses can cause major problems on the
network, but the NIC trusts organizations to use individual addresses responsibly. Each address is a 32-bit address in the form of
x.x.x.x where x is an eight- bit number from 0 to 255. There are three classes: A, B and C, depending on how many computers on the
site are likely to be connected.