vocab 8

1.     Firewall -  Software protecting your computer  from harmful websites or hackers.

2.     ASCII - Is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet.

3.     AUP - A set of rules applied by the owner/manager of a network, website or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network site or system may be used.

4.     Backbone - The Internet backbone refers to the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected networks and core routers in the Internet.

5.     Baud - Baud is synonymous to symbols per second or pulses per second.

6.     Citation -  A from of greeting on a website.

7.     Thumbnail - Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures.

8.     Post -  Info give as a informational rescores. Or for entertainment. 

9.     Authentication – evidence that you or it is real.

10.  Byte – A type of measurement used in storing data

11.  bps (bits per second) – How fast the web is going.

12.  Plug-in – A plug-in is a set of software components that adds specific abilities to a larger software application.

13.  Filtering -  Allowing only certin information to be seen on you computer.

14.  Alias - An alias is a pseudonym.

15.  Default -  what something automatically does. Or goes to.

Vocab 7

1.   CERN - Is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory.

2.   RAM – Random access memory.

3.   ROM -  Read only memory.

4.   Credit cards -  A card that allows you buy things over the internet.

5.   Intranet - An intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization.

6.   Internet - The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.

7.   Mosaic – First web browser.

8.   Rights - Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement.

9.   CD ROM - CD-ROM  is an adaptation of the CD that is designed to store computer data in the form of text and graphics, as well as hi-fi stereo sound.

10. Secured site – An encrypted site that  has passwords and codes making it so you are not able to harm the site.

11.  Web design – The look and structure of a  web page.

12.  Anchor - Anchor Software provides postal processing, data quality, and document design software solutions for the direct mail and marketing industries.

13. Compression - In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use.

14. Down - Downloading is the transmission of a file from one computer system to another, usually smaller computer system.

15. Encryption - Encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key.

vocab 6

1.     Acceptable Use Policy: is a set of rules applied by the owner/manager of a network, website or large computer system that restrict the ways in which the network site or system may be used.

2.    Freeware: is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee

3.    Copyright: A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to the creator of an original work or their assignee for a limited period of time upon disclosure of the work.

4.    Pop3: (Post Office Protocol 3) is the most recent version of a standard protocol for receiving e-mail.

5.    Search Engine: search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.

6.    Ping: a computer network used to test the reachability of a host on an internet protocol

7.    PDF: Portable Document Format (PDF) is an open standard for document exchange.

8.    Shareware: The term shareware (also known as trialware or demoware) is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality

9.    Protocol:  A protocol is a special set of rules that enable communication between two computers.

10.  Commercial Software:  software that is use to serve as commercial recourse.

11.  Public Domain: public domain may refer to ideas, information, and works

12.  Dedicated connection: How connected you are all the time.

13.  Dedicated Line: one line that runs both a telecommunication devise and the internet.

14.  Cookie:  cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user's browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site.

15.  IMAP: Internet message access protocol (IMAP) is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol (POP).

vocab 5

1.     What happened in 1969 in Internet History?:  The Internet, then known as ARPANET, was brought online in 1969 under a contract let by the renamed Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which initially connected four major computers at universities in the southwestern US (UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UCSB, and the University of Utah).

2.    Packet: a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network.

3.    Bookmark: a web page you can add to your favorites and go there later just by clicking on the book mark.

4.    Look up the following filename extensions:

      .jpg: Compressed image format standardized by the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

      .gif: The Graphics Interchange Format

      .png: Portable Network Graphics

5.    Newsgroup: A usenet newsgroup is a repository usually within the Usenet system, for messages posted from many users in different locations

6.    Consumer Report.org: Product reviews and Ratings on cars, appliances, electronics and more from Consumer Reports

7.    Network: a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communications channels that allow sharing of resources and information

8.    Bitmap: a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images.

9.    Hyperlink: a hyperlink (or link) is a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically.

10.  Hypermedia: Hypermedia is a computer-based information retrieval system that enables a user to gain or provide access to texts, audio and video recordings

11.  Hypertext: Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence.

12.  Router: allows wireless internet.

13.  e-mail address: An email address identifies an email box to which email messages are delivered.

14.  Button: a button element you can put content, like text or images.

15.  dial-up: Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access that uses the facilities of the public switched telephone network

16.  WWW: world wide web.

Volcab 4

1. Internet Service Provider (ISP): An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections.^[1] Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers (colocation). Transit ISPs provide large tubes for connecting hosting ISPs to access ISPs.^[2]
2.  Chat: The Google+ chat list will be automatically populated with people you’ve already chosen to chat with in Gmail, iGoogle, Google Talk, or Orkut. If someone isn't already a contact of yours, you can invite them to chat right from the Chat search box.
3.  TCP/IP: The TCP/IP model is a description framework for computer network protocols created in the 1970s by DARPA, an agency of the United States Department of Defense. It evolved from ARPANET, which was the world's first wide area network and a predecessor of the Internet. The TCP/IP Model is sometimes called the Internet Model or the DoD Model.

4:Hit: a single request for a file from a web server

5. Browser: A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.^[2] Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. A web browser can also be defined as an application software or program designed to enable users to access, retrieve and view documents and other resources on the internrtseryerhysdfbdfhet.

6.  Virus: A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself^[1] and spread from one computer to another

7.  Universal Resource Locator: - the address of a web page on the world wide web

8.  Marc Andreesen: American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer and multi-millionaire best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser

9.  Gopher: TCP/iP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet

10.  ARPAnet: the first internet.

11.  Cyberspace: Cyberspace is the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place.

12:  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Frequently asked questions are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic

13.  Shareware: The term shareware (also known as trialware or demoware) refers to proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.

14.  Telnet: Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility using a virtual terminal connection.

Volcab

Jacob

Cuningham

1.  IP Address: An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

2.  Usenet: Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.

3.  Account: The means by which a user can access a computer system, or used on e-mail addresses

4.  Host: a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network

5.  FTP: File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server.

6.  ZIP, EXE, CAB : STUFF

8.  HTML: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages.

9.  Link: something that takes you to another page.

10.  WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content (text and graphics) displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form exactly corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product.    which might be a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

11.  TXT, DOC, XLS:

12.  Bandwidth: Bandwidth (computing) or digital bandwidth: a rate of data transfer, bit rate or throughput, measured in bits per second (bps)

13.     DNS server: The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.

14.     Client: somebody who buys stuff from you.

15.     Bounce: when you go up and down.

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