Sometimes you hear some word, but don't know what it means, here is the list of some of them:

• ASP - Active Server Pages, for more info look here
• CA - Certifying Authority. Authority which signs public key (PK), so some third party can verify, that the PK is really belongs to whom it claims to belong.
• CGI - Common Gateway Interface, look here for more info.
• CORBA - Common Object Request Broker Architecture, it's distributed object computing infrastructure. More info can be found here
• DHTML - Dynamic HTML, look here for more info.
• DOM - Document Object Model.
• DTD - Document Type Definition, this is the formal specification of a markup language, written using SGML
• HTML - HyperText Markup Language, if you don't know what this means, you are in the wrong place.
• HTTP - HyperText Transfer Protocol
• JavaScript - Scripting language, look here for more info.
• Java - Java programming language, look here for more info.
• Java applet - Java application, which runs on the client side (inside the Web browser).
• JVM (Java VM) - Java Virtual machine.
• LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, client-server protocol for accessing a directory service.
• NSAPI - Netscape API, API for writing plug-ins for Netscape browser.
• SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language, a standard for describing markup languages
• SSI - Server Side Includes, technology, which allows to embed the simple server directives in the HTML pages
• SSL - Secure Sockets Layer, encrypted channel over which other protocols (like HTTP) can be used securely
• URL - Universal Resource Locator, the address of the resource on the Web. Look here for more info.
• URI - Uniform Resource Identifier. Basically the same as URL.
• VRML - Virtual Reality Markup language
• WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
• XML - Extensible Markup Language
• Cookies - This is a mechanism, which allows to store some small info in the browser. Look here for more info.