Static and Dynamic websites differ in the way they deliver or display content to their users. A static website always provides fixed content to its users. However, a dynamic website provides different content each time the user accesses the website. The next significant difference between them is that a static website loads faster than a dynamic website. Before getting into detail, let us understand the basic term website. What is a Website? A website is a collection of web pages that we … [Read more...]

WiFi and Ethernet are networking technologies that allow multiple devices to connect to the network and access the Internet simultaneously. Though both technologies connect you to a network or the Internet, they differ in many ways. WiFi is wireless technology, whereas Ethernet is wired technology. WiFi offers mobility to its user as there is a wireless transmission. On the other hand, Ethernet offers fast and secure access to the Internet. We will discuss these techniques in detail and their … [Read more...]

DSL and ADSL are the technologies adopted by telecom companies to facilitate faster data transmission. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) is a set of technologies, among which ADSL is one. Although ADSL is a subset of DSL technologies we will try to identify some of the differences between these two. We will also be discussing about both techniques in detail. Content: DSL Vs ADSL Comparison Chart What is DSL? DSL Modem WhatisADSL? ADSL Broadband Echo Cancellation … [Read more...]

The PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) are the security protocols designed to serve for securing the electronic mail facility. The prior difference between these protocols lies within their security mechanism type of algorithms used. PGP uses either digital certificates or key rings for building trust between the users. In contrast, S/MIME employs encryption, message digest and digital signatures. We are aware about the electronic mail services … [Read more...]

Hypertext and hyperlink are very much related terms but has a different meaning. The prior difference between the hypertext and hyperlink is that the hypertext is the non-linear representation of the data which when clicked redirects you to some other page. On the other hand, the hyperlink is the link embedded in the hypertext to which the control is transferred. As the whole, we can say that the hyperlink is a part of the hypertext. Similarly, these hyperlinks can be embedded in various … [Read more...]

The Blog and Vlog can be considered as the powerful marketing tools for corporates, companies and individual as well. Nowadays, blogging and vlogging are popular methods to earn money by writing contents or making videos. So, the major difference between blog and vlog is that blog is similar to a website where you can find the written content of some topic. On the other hand, in a vlog, the video on the particular topics are posted. Blogging and Vlogging mainly circles around the content. … [Read more...]

While using the Internet, we usually come up with terms like download and upload. But, what do these terms signify? The primary difference between the downloading and uploading is that the downloading means to copy something from other remote machine connected through some network or Internet, to the client machine (User's machine). In contradiction, uploading means to copy some file or data from the client's machine to the remote machine. The downloading and uploading speed varies most of … [Read more...]

The search engine and the web browser are the completely different technologies where the search engine used for searching some information over the Internet. On the other hand, the web browser is used for accessing the web pages and the HTML files. You must have heard the names of the softwares or applications like Google, Yahoo, Baidu, DuckDuckgo, etcetera. These are examples of search engines. Conversely, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer are examples of web … [Read more...]

Hypertext and hypermedia, are the techniques for linking non-linear information. The two terms are distinct in a manner that the hypertext allows only text to be hyperlinked while hypermedia could use various multimedia elements such as images, audio and video, in order to link the text and media over the World Wide Web. However, hypertext is a part of the hypermedia as hypermedia includes text, image, audio, video, etcetera. It all started with the advent of the new techniques to navigate … [Read more...]

Streaming and downloading are terms mostly used while using the internet. The prior difference between the two terms lies in the fact that how is the content is downloaded from the server to the end-user. Streaming means that the content is temporarily downloaded on the client's machine but reside in the streaming server. Conversely, the downloading means that complete content is copied and downloaded on the end user's machine. Both have certain merits and demerits, which we will discuss in … [Read more...]