To pass this unit, please study the 15 vocabulary words below.
- ARPANET (Advanced Projects Research Agency Network)
- Backbone
- BBS (Bulletin Board System)
- Cookie
- Domain name
- Download
- e-commerce (electronic commerce)
- Emoticon
- Hyperlink
- Hypertext
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- Upload
- WWW (World Wide Web)
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
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developed by the US military for defense purposes, this was the first global network with packet switching
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"The current public Internet owes a big debt to ARPANET, which was the original global network."
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a central high speed network that connects smaller, independent networks
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"Homeland Security is worried that an attack on the Internet backbone could cripple the country for weeks or months."
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a predecessor to modern websites, these were early online communities that users could dial into using a modem
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"The network administrator ran his own BBS as a boy back in the 1980s."
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a text file created by websites which contains personal information about an end user
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"The web's use of cookies is quite controversial because most users have no idea that their information is being collected and stored on their computer."
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the unique name which identifies a website
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"The domain name of Microsoft Corporation is microsoft.com."
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to transfer a file or files from a remote computer to the user's computer
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"The professor asked us to download the example database from the school's server."
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the term for buying and selling goods and services over the World Wide Web
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"Although e-commerce started out small, it has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry."
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a symbol that uses the characters on a computer keyboard to convey emotion in an email or instant message, such as the smiley face :)
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"One of the most popular emoticons is perhaps the wink and smile ;) which is used to convey irony or satire."
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a document cross-reference technique enabling the retrieval of a related document or resource simply by clicking on an underlined word or image
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"The man made a hyperlink from his personal homepage to his friend's business."
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any electronic cross-referencing document first prophesized by Vannevar Bush in 1945
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"The woman asked her professor if the textbook was available as hypertext."
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the coding or tagging syntax used to write documents for web browsers
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"A good web developer will know most HTML tags without looking in a book."
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the address which specifies the location of a file on the Internet
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"One uses a URL to go directly to a particular website."
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to transfer a file from a local computer to a remote computer
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"The boy decided to upload a picture of his new girlfriend to his Facebook page."
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a global hypertext system operating on the Internet that enables electronic communication of text and multimedia
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"The World Wide Web is the best thing to happen to computing since birth of the PC."
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an organization which develops specifications and guidelines for the World Wide Web
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"The W3C recommends that web developers no longer use font tags in their HTML documents."