Study the 19 vocabulary terms below. Then continue to the activities.
- ARPANET (Advanced Projects Research Agency Network)
- Backbone
- BBS (Bulletin Board System)
- Cookie
- Cumbersome
- Domain name
- Download
- E-commerce (electronic commerce)
- Emoticon
- Hyperlink
- Hypertext
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
- Innovation
- Paradigm
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
- Upload
- Walled garden
- WWW (World Wide Web)
- W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Proper noun (thing)
developed by the US military for defense purposes, this was the first global network with packet switching
The current public Internet owes a big debt to ARPANET, which was the original global network.
Noun (thing)
a central high speed network that connects smaller, independent networks
Homeland Security is worried that an attack on the Internet backbone could cripple the country for weeks or months.
Proper noun (thing)
a predecessor to modern websites, these were early online communities that users could dial into using a modem
The network administrator ran his own BBS as a boy back in the 1980s.
Noun (thing)
a text file created by websites which contains personal information about an end user
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.
Adjective
large, complicated, or difficult to use
Early websites were cumbersome and slow compared to modern web applications.
Noun (thing)
the unique name which identifies a website
The domain name of Microsoft Corporation is microsoft.com.
Verb (infinitive)
to 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.
Noun (thing)
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 multi-billion dollar industry.
Noun (thing)
a symbol that uses the characters on a computer keyboard to convey emotion in 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.
Noun (thing)
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 personal homepage to his friend's business.
Noun (thing)
any electronic cross-referencing document first prophesized by Vannevar Bush in 1945
The woman asked her professor if the textbook was available as hypertext.
Proper noun (thing)
the coding or tagging syntax used to write documents for web browsers
A good web developer will know most HTML tags without looking in a book.
Noun (thing)
a useful creation resulting from study and experimentation
The economics professor said monopolies can sometimes hurt innovation in the software industry.
Noun (concept)
a common way of looking at, or modeling something
Smart phones were a total paradigm shift in the world of mobile phones.
Noun (thing)
the address which specifies the location of a file on the Internet
One uses a URL to go directly to a particular website.
Verb (infinitive)
to transfer a file from a local computer to a remote computer
The boy decided to upload a picture of his new girlfriend to his Facebook page.
Noun (concept)
a digital platform or service that only lets you see and do what the owner allows.
Companies like Apple and Sony actually argue that their walled gardens are a good thing because they help promote security and family values.
Proper noun (thing)
a global hypertext system operating on the Internet that enables electronic communication of text and multimedia
The World Wide Web is the best thing to happen to computing since birth of the PC.
Proper noun (thing)
an organization which develops specifications and guidelines for the World Wide Web
The W3C recommends that web developers no longer use font tags in their HTML documents.