Please study the 15 vocabulary terms below. Then press the Mark Complete button to continue.
- ARPANET (Advanced Projects Research Agency Network)
- developed by the US military for defense purposes, this was the first global network with packet switching
- backbone
- a central high speed network that connects smaller, independent networks
- BBS (Bulletin Board System)
- a predecessor to modern websites, these were early online communities that users could dial into using a modem
- cookie
- a text file created by web sites which contains personal information about an end use
- domain name
- the unique name which identifies a web site
- download
- to transfer a file or files from a remote computer to the user's compute
- e-commerce (electronic commerce)
- the term for buying and selling goods and services over the world wide web
- 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 :)
- hyperlink
- a document cross-reference technique enabling the retrieval of a related document or resource simply by clicking on an underlined word or image.
- hypertext
- any electronic cross-referencing document first prophesized by Vannevar Bush in 1945
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
- the coding or tagging syntax used to write documents for web browsers
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- the address which specifies the location of a file on the Internet
- upload
- to transfer a file from a local computer to a remote compute
- WWW (World Wide Web)
- a global hypertext system operating on the Internet that enables electronic communication of text and multimedia
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
- an organization which develops specifications and guidelines for the World Wide Web
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The current public Internet owes a big debt to ARPANET, which was the original global network.
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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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The network administrator ran his own BBS as a boy back in the 1980s.
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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 domain name of Microsoft Corporation is microsoft.com.
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The professor asked us to download the example database from the school's server.
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Although e-commerce started out small, it has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry.
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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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The man made a hyperlink from his personal homepage to his friend's business.
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The woman asked her professor if the textbook was available as hypertext.
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A good web developer will know most HTML tags without looking in a book.
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One uses a URL to go directly to a particular web site.
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The boy decided to upload a picture of his new girlfriend to his Facebook page.
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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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The W3C recommends that web developers no longer use font tags in their HTML documents.