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.