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Technologies

The technologies are listed below to give you all the information and help with the internet.

ASP or ASP.Net: ASP/ASP.NET is a technology created by Microsoft to allow server-side scripting on their servers. ASP stands for Active Server Scripting, which was used to make web pages more dynamic. Scripts are executed on the server, rather than the client (Same as PHP). In recent years, the ASP language has been upgraded and renamed to ASP.NET which provides more features and flexibility to its developers than the old ASP language.
XML: XML is a technology created by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) to provide a extensible markup language (Your own language). The type used for web pages is called XHTML, however XML is mainly used for programs for storing data/retrieving data.
JavaScript: Javascript is a technology developed by Netscape Communications. It is classed as a client-side scripting language which was attended to create dynamic content on web pages. When i say client side scripting, I mean the scripts run on the clients computer, which are downloaded from the web server. The language was created in 1995 and its used by many modern web browsers today.
Java Applets: Java Applets are files which have been compiled with the Java compiler to provide interactive content for web pages. To run, they use the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is used to display the Java content in web pages, The language used is Java.
PHP: PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. The language is classed as a server-side programming language to create dynamic content for web pages. PHP scripts are created by the server admin and can be embedded in webpages (html,php etc..). When a client accesses any page that contains a PHP script, the script is executed on the server instead of being downloaded. The language can be used to do all sorts of functions e.g. File opening, Time, but the big advantage to this language, is that it can connect to MYSQL databases to retrieve/edit data.
Perl: Perl is a programming language that can be used to execute scripts/write programs etc.. The programming language is mostly used on the server from a web developer perspective e.g. execute scripts to do certain functions at different times. Perl is mostly used on the Unix/Linux servers rather than the Microsoft ones because of the operating system's architecture.
RSS: RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. The technology keeps users updated with latest news available. When a update becomes available, you are represented with a web feed with the updated content. XML is used to share content across many web sites and handle the incoming update. Browsers support this new technology and this technology has been effective towards users.
AJAX: AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript XML. Which is basically common technologies (Scripting languages) combine into one to provide browser-based applications which can behave like normal software applications. Many companies (W3C, Microsoft, Netscape) came together to form this technology in 2005-2006 which makes it relatively new.
SVG: SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format was created by the W3C. The svg format can be represented in two ways (XHTML, Vector graphics), The XHTML format basically gives a description of the image in tags but the vector graphics format shows a fine degree image in a 2 dimensional view.