Glossary
Active Server Pages (ASP)—A technology created by Microsoft that allows Web pages to include dynamic content, often pulled from a database.
Address bar—The location in a browser where you type in the URL for the Web site you want to visit.
Aero—A graphical user interface style for the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.
AJAX—See Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
ALT—An HTML tag that provides alternative text when a Web browser cannot display nontextual elements, which are typically images.
Alto—Produced by Xerox, this was the first personal computer that had a GUI interface.
Aqua—The Mac OS X graphical user interface.
ARPANET—A computer network formed by the U.S. Defense Department Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1969. It was ...
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