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.