Pre HTML lesson

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
A protocol is the word before the "://", here are a couple examples:

HTTP: -- the normal protocol for viewing HTML documents
Telnet: -- The first way to download something off the web
FTP: -- A protocol developed as an easier, more application oriented, way of transferring files
C: or D: or E: or F: and a few others are protocols that refer to your hard drive, floppy disk drive, CD and zip drive.

Basically protocols are just a signal to your operating system about where you want to go, and what you want to do. Some applications register protocols on your computer, like AIM (AIM:)

Paths are the text after the protocol and the ' : ' or sometimes the ' :// ' that stand for folders names. An examples is:
C://Program Files/
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the path
Files are the text that refer to the name of the actual file your referring to:
C://Program Files/TextFile.ext
The 'ext' is called the file extension. It tells programs what the file is made by and used by. .TXT is a plain, unformatted text file. .HTML is for .HTML documents. .HTM is the same kind of .HTML document, no different. Used to, UNIX machines could only run a file with a three letter extension. So .HTML, a four letter extension, was alternated to .HTM. QueryString is everything after the ? after all of that. It usually looks like:
C://Program Files/HTML-Document.htm?variable=1&anothervariable=2
That's used to pass information

The hash is everything after the # after all that. It's used to call bookmarks, or places in the document so you can go to that place without scrolling. An example would be:
C://Program Files/HTML-Document.htm#bookmark1_top
So that would go to HTML-Document.htm, and then go to the bookmark called 'bookmark1_top' in the page.
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You may want to read articles about how the web and the internet began. I am in the progress of making one, and it will be in this same section, called: "The Web, and the Internet"
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OK, there is your basic training, so now you can go read my new article series about HTML!