Your Internet Service Provider. The company you pay to get internet access, like Comcast or AT&T.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol that powers the web. More secure HTTPS is becoming the standard.

Secure Sockets Layer. An encryption protocol used to secure data sent over the internet. Usually via HTTPS.

Matroska Video. A versatile multimedia container that can hold video, audio, subtitles, and metadata.

Short for World Wide Web. The collective network of public websites and pages linked via hyperlinks and URLs.

A modern image format that offers better compression for the web than JPG or PNG.

The standard ebook format. Supports flowable text content with images and formatting.

A widely used markup language for encoding documents in a way both humans and computers can read.

Similar to JSON but strives to be even more human-friendly. Great for configuration files.

A lightweight markup language for formatting plain text. Used all over the web, including in this article!