It’s par for the course, of course, that we have to occasionally resort to techno-babble.

Here, explained, are some nerdy terms or acronyms, that we use on this blog:

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Blog: A shared online journal with comments generally posted, and commented on, in chronological order

Domain Name: The name that identifies a web site

FTP (File Transfer Protocol): A method of transferring files between two computers

FTP Server: A Web Server (see below) that you can logon to and upload files to (or download files from)

HTML: Hypertext Markup language - the language of the web, the code that sits behind nearly everything we see on the web.

Moblog: A blog published directly to the web from a phone or other mobile device.

Web Server: A computer that delivers info to other computers. A hosting company’s computer that delivers web content to others.

‘Text from article in the July 2007 issue of Junior Education magazine’