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.
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