HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

A tag-based notation language used to format documents for

the World Wide Web (WWW) in a manner that can be interpreted by a program known as a Web browser.

An application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), HTML allows authors to insert

hyperlinks that display another HTML document when a user clicks on them with a mouse.The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 1866 (1995) standardized HTML 2, the first version to be widely used on the WWW. HTML development currently is the responsibility of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). See also browser, hyperlink, IETF, SGML, W3C, and WWW.

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• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork)
• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork)
• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork)
• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork)
• SONET (Synchronous Optical NETwork)
• source
• source routing protocol (SRP)
• source routing transparent (SRT)
• space division multiplexing
• space division switch
• spam
• spam over instant messaging (SPIM)
• span
• spanning
• spanning tree protocol (STP)
• sparse network
• spatial diversity
• SPC (Stored Program Control)
• speaker
• specialized common carrier (SCC)
• Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR)
• special resource function (SRF)
• specification
• speckle noise
• speckling