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=Technology Terms=

Binary
Computers communicate in binary, using a series of 1's and 0's. Think of binary as a series of on or off switches. Try your hand at decoding binary.

**Content**
The text, images, movies, sounds, animations or anything else that appear on a website.

CSS
Cascading Style Sheets provide the code needed for web browsers to determine how a web page should be laid out.

DNS
Domain Name System keeps track of web addresses on the Internet, converting numerical IP addresses to alphanumeric web addresses. For instance, one IP address for www.google.com is 173.194.73.147.

Hacker
Someone who takes things apart and tries things out to figures out how something works.

HTML
HyperText Markup Language provides the tags needed for web browsers to display the content of web pages. Check out this HTML tag cheatsheet.

IP address
Every computer on the internet is assigned an Internet Protocol (IP) address, which is a bunch of numbers.

Maker
Someone who creates something and shares it with others.

Web Server
A computer that can share content via websites on the internet.

WYSIWYG
A WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor lets you enter content while it takes care of the underlying code (HTML).

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