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Internet and the World Wide Web

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There are currently 5 terms in this directory beginning with the letter T.

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

TCP is the transport layer of TCP/IP. Read more...

TCP/IP

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the protocol stack used by the internet. It contains four layers: Application, Transport, IP, Network/Hardware/Link. Read more...

Three-Tier Architecture

A type of client-server model, where data is exchanged between three computing layers (i.e. Web browser, Web Server, Database Server) Read more...

TLD (Top Level Domain)

The end of a URL is called the TLD (Top-level Domain). i.e. .com Read more...

Tunnel Connection

A tunnel connection is used to connect two devices over a network when conditions (i.e., firewall, HTTPS) would otherwise restrict communication.