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Hit
As
used in reference to the World Wide Web, “hit” means a single
request from a web browser for a single item from a web
server; thus in order for a web browser to display a page
that contains 3 graphics, 4 “hits” would occur at the server:
1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics.
“hits” are often used as a very rough measure of load on a server,
e.g. “Our server has been getting 300,000 hits per month.” Because
each “hit” can represent anything from a request for a tiny document
(or even a request for a missing document) all the way to a request
that requires some significant extra processing (such as a complex
search request), the actual load on a machine from 1 hit is almost
impossible to define.
Home
Page (or Homepage)
Several
meanings. Originally, the web page that your browser
is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning refers
to the main web page for a business, organization, person or simply
the main page out of a collection of web pages, e.g. “Check out
so-and-so’s new Home Page.”
Another sloppier use of the term refers to practically any web
page as a “homepage,” e.g. “That web site has 65 homepages and
none of them are interesting.”
See
Also: Browser , Web
Host
Any
computer on a network that is a repository for services
available to other computers on the network. It is quite
common to have one host machine provide several services, such
as WWW and USENET.
See
Also: Node , Network
HTML
(HyperText
Markup Language) -- The coding language used to create Hypertext
documents for use on the World Wide Web. HTML looks a lot
like old-fashioned typesetting code, where you surround a block
of text with codes that indicate how it should appear, additionally,
in HTML you can specify that a block of text, or a word, is linked
to another file on the Internet. HTML files are meant to be viewed
using a World Wide Web Client Program, such as Netscape
or Mosaic.
See
Also: Client , Server , WWW
HTTP
(HyperText
Transfer Protocol) -- The protocol for moving hypertext
files across the Internet. Requires a HTTP client
program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the other
end. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the World
Wide Web (WWW).
See
Also: Client , Server , WWW
Hypertext
Generally,
any text that contains links to other documents - words or phrases
in the document that can be chosen by a reader and which cause
another document to be retrieved and displayed.
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