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Hi Laura; Can you define HTM and what is the difference between the browser and the internet. I know that second one I should know, but I have never understood the difference. I hope they are the same. If so, it sure is confusing hearing, web browser, browser or internet. Thanks. terry Powers Terry, Laura's probably answered this for you, but since I love words and defining them, and since you asked this on a public list, let me see what I can do. First, HTM or HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a term used to talk about the way text is written so that it can be read by a web browser. <smile> This leads right into the difference between browser and Internet. Let's take Internet first. The Internet is a large number of computers that are all linked together by either phone lines or by wireless connections or by high speed cables. When you send email, you use the Internet to do that. Your message goes from computer to computer until it reaches the computer you addressed the message to. When you look at a web page, you are seeing text that is sitting on somebody else's computer. You have been allowed to see what is on that computer by the person who put the web page there. You look at the web page by sending a signal that goes from your computer to the other computer and tells it to send the picture of the web page back to you. A browser is a program that allows you to search for, and to view information that is on the Internet. The Browser, MSIE or Keyweb is what interprets the special way the text is displayed, "marked up" on The Internet so that you can hear it with your computer. It's sort of like an interpreter or a translator. As you can see the terms Internet and browser are not the same at all. One is a collection of computers that give you information. The other is the means by which you receive translated information from The Internet. Hope this clarifies some. Ann P. Ann K. Parsons Portal Tutoring [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.eznet.net/~akp
