Unit 6: Vocabulary

Please study the 15 vocabulary terms below. Then press the Mark Complete button to continue.
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ARPANET (Advanced Projects Research Agency Network)
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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backbone
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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BBS (Bulletin Board System)
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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cookie
a text file created by web sites which contains personal information about an end use
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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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domain name
the unique name which identifies a web site
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The domain name of Microsoft Corporation is microsoft.com.
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download
to transfer a file or files from a remote computer to the user's compute
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The professor asked us to download the example database from the school's server.
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e-commerce (electronic commerce)
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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emoticon
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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hyperlink
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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hypertext
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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HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
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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URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
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 web site.
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upload
to transfer a file from a local computer to a remote compute
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The boy decided to upload a picture of his new girlfriend to his Facebook page.
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WWW (World Wide Web)
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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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
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.
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