Internet History

What Does Internet History Mean?

Internet history is a term for a tool or resource in a Web browser that keeps track of sites and pages that a user visits. Through tabulating URLs, Internet history facilitates a quick reference or lookup of previously visited pages.

Techopedia Explains Internet History

Every Internet history is set up a bit differently, but there are some conventions for Internet history tools in browsers. Most of them open from a drop-down menu and present a sidebar with chronological URLs. Many of them also offer tools for cleaning or “wiping” Internet history. Here, users can choose to erase part or all of the tabulated list of URLs. They can often also choose to erase cookies, favorites, bookmarks and other items related to Web browsing.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.

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