home > web tips > internet terms Browser – This is the computer program that lets you look at web pages. The most common browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. Click – When you put the mouse pointer over something and push the left mouse button, then you “click” it. Home Page – This is the main page for the web site for a business, college, government, or organization. Icon – This is similar to a button or a link. Often an icon is a picture that links to another page when you click it. Internet – This is a vast collection of networks that talk to each other with a special computer language. This is short for “Inter-connected Networks”. Link – This is a kind of shortcut to another web site or another page within the web site you’re looking at. A link can be a picture or text. Very often the text will be underlined, but not always! Mouse – This is the device that you use to move a pointer across the computer screen. The mouse usually has 2 buttons on top (left and right). (A Macintosh mouse will have only one button.) For this web site, you only need to use the left mouse button. Page – Sometimes this is called a web page. A page is the screen of information you see at any one time. A web site consists of one or more pages. You can think of it like pages in a book, with the web site being the whole book. Pass Over – When you move the mouse pointer across the screen, sometimes it will turn into a hand. This means that the text or picture under the hand is a link. You have “passed over” with the mouse. Pointer – This is the arrow that appears on your computer screen. You move the pointer by moving the mouse. Task Bar – At the bottom of the screen is a blue bar that keeps track of the programs and web pages you have open. You will see a series of buttons to the right of the “Start” button. Web Site – This refers to one or more pages of information that you can view on the World Wide Web. World Wide Web – This is a part of the Internet. Sometimes called the WWW or the Web, this consists of pages of information that are written and transmitted in special computer languages.