Glossary
Hypertext
A means of embedding in text certain commands which, when activated, can take a user to another position in a document, can call up other documents, can launch a program, or can set in motion some other action. The hypertext link is activated by clicking on the hypertext with the mouse cursor. Hypertext is used in Windows Help files, as well as in pages on the World Wide Web and Internet. Hypertext is usually indicated by some other color of text (often green or blue).
Internet
Not a physical network, but the interconnection of many physical networks (commercial, educational, governmental, and private). Much of the
Internet Address
Every network connected to the Internet has a unique numeric IP address. To connect to certain Internet providers you may need to know this address (it is usually already encoded into the software that the provider supplies).
I/O Address (Input/Output Address or Port Address)
The numeric memory address where the processor sends information to a specific device. Devices cannot share the same address, so the information cannot be sent to any other device by mistake. Peripherals that perform more than one function (audio hardware) may require an address for each function.
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