Unit #6 Objectives: The Internet

The objective of unit The Internet is to learn to recognize and understand the 15 key unit vocabulary terms. This is accomplished by completing the readings and other activities.

Unit Vocabulary

Below is a list of key vocabulary terms in this unit. You can also Print out the vocabulary list.

the predecessor to the Internet developed by ARPA and the first worldwide network with packet switching

The World Wide Web owes a big debt to ARPANET, which was the original global network.

a central high speed network that connects smaller, independent networks

The Department of Defense was worried that someone might plan an attack on the Internet backbone, which would cripple the country.

a predecessor to modern websites, these were early online communities that users could dial into using a modem

The man who became a network administrator ran his own BBS as a boy back in the 1980s.

a text file containing personal information of a user retreived while browsing the Internet, normally stored on the user's hard drive.

The lawyer said the web's use of cookies is quite controversial because most users have no idea that information about them is being collected and stored on their own computer.

the unique name that identifies a web site.

The domain name of Microsoft Corporation is microsoft.com

The transfer a file or files from a remote computer to the user's computer

The professor asked us to download the example database from the school's server.

The term for buying and selling goods and services over the world wide web

Although e-commerce started out small, it has grown into a billion dollar industry.

A symbol that uses the characters on a computer keyboard to convey emotion an email or instant message, such as the smiley face :)

One of the most popular emoticons is perhaps the wink and smile ;) which is used to convey irony or satire.

A document cross-reference technique enabling the retrieval of a related document or resource simply by clicking on an underlined word or image.

The man made a hyperlink from his home page to his friend's business so people could find it easily.

any electronic cross-referencing document first prophesized by Vannevar Bush in 1945

The woman asked her professor if the textbook was available as hypertext.

the coding or tagging syntax used to write documents read by web browsers

A good web developer will know most HTML tags by heart without looking in a book.

an address that specifies the location of a file on the Internet

One must type in a URL to view a particular web site.

to transfer a file from a local computer to a remote computer

The boy uploaded a picture of his girlfriend to his personal web page.

a global hypertext system operating on the Internet that enables electronic communication of text and multimedia.

When most people refer to the Internet, they are actually speaking of the World Wide Web, which is a part of the Internet.

an organization which develops specifications and guidelines for the World Wide Web.

The W3C recommended that Web developers no longer use tags in their HTML documents.