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ICT: Internet and WWW Flashcards

1
Q

It is a global computer network providing
a variety of information and communication
facilities, consisting of interconnected networks
using standardized communication protocols.

A

Internet

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1950

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A cold war between
North America and the Soviet Union
happened.

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October 04, 1957

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USSR R (Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics) launched satellite called Sputnik

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1958

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The US responded to this by launching ARPANET/DARPANET (Defense Advance Research Project Agency Network)

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5
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1962

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Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, is known
simply as J.C.R. Licklider or “Lick”, a scientist from MIT and DARPA was an
American psychologist and computer
scientist who proposed a global
network in a series of memos discussing
an “Intergalactic Computer Network”

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1965

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Paul Baran developed a way of
sending information from one computer
to another via telephone line called
“packet switching”

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7
Q

It breaks data down into blocks or
packets before sending it to its
destination.

A

Packet Switching

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1969

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ARPANET delivered its first message,
from one computer to another, but it
crashed the whole network.

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9
Q

Who attempted to text “login”?

A

Leonard Kleinrock

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10
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What were the letters that were only transmitted into the system?

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L, O

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1970

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Four computers were connected to the
ARPANET. A packet-switched computer network multiplied.

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1974

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Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf invented a new
method called transmission-control
protocol, popularly known as TCP/IP,
which essentially allowed computers to
speak the same language.

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13
Q

Who invented the World Wide Web?

A

Tim-Berners Lee

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14
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Who developed Mosaic?

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A group of students and researchers from the University of Illinois

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15
Q

What is the first internet browser?

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Netscape

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16
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It is a user-friendly browser which allowed the user to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time with scrollbars and links?

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Mosaic

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17
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What is the place and the year where Tim-Berners Lee developed the WWW?

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1989, Geneva, Switzerland

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Tim Berners-Lee

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A professional fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology

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19
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A computer language created by TBL which most pages are written in.

A

Hypertext Markup Language

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20
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An information system on the internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links.

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World Wide Web

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21
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The pages you see when you are at a device and you are online.

A

WWW

22
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Hypertext documents interlinked with each other residing in HTTP around the world.

A

WWW

23
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A document with words that connects to other documents.

A

Hypertext

24
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Allows visitors to navigate between websites by clicking on words, phrases, and images

A

Hyperlinks

25
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A foundation of communication for WWW which helps in accessing data

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

26
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The beginning of most website addressed, used to signal request to receive or transmit files over the internet.

A

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

27
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A command used to tell the Web server.

A

http://

28
Q

A set of rules that computers follow for the transferring of files from one system to another over the internet.

A

File Transfer Protocol

29
Q

Sites that may allow downloading and uploading of files such as books, articles, software, images, sound, etc.

A

File Transfer Protocol Sites

30
Q

May have one or more interconnected pages.

A

Websites

31
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Documents available on WWW that are stored on web server and can be viewed using web browser

A

Webpages

32
Q

A software application program that you can use to access WWW

A

Web Browser

33
Q

Helps email software to handle different file types.

A

Multimedia Internet Mall Extension

34
Q

A text found on the address bar which tells the specific internet address of a web page.

A

Uniform Resource Locator

35
Q

The internet’s system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses

A

Domain Name System

36
Q

Domain name for an educational network

A

.ac or .edu

37
Q

The ending of a URL for a government website

A

.gov

38
Q

Top-level domain for a business site

A

.firm

39
Q

Top-level domain for internet administrative site

A

.net

40
Q

Top-level domain for international institution

A

.int

41
Q

Top-level domain for US military site

A

.mil

42
Q

Top-level domain for retail business

A

.store

43
Q

Country level domain name for Australia

A

.au

44
Q

Country level domain name for Switzerland

A

.ch

45
Q

Country level domain name for Greenland

A

.gl

46
Q

Country level domain name for Lebanon

A

.lb

47
Q

Country level domain name for Malaysia

A

.my

48
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Country level domain name for Netherland

A

.nl

49
Q

1980

A

Researches and scientists used internet to send files and data from one computer to another.

50
Q

1990

A

Tim Berners Lee introduced World Wide Web

51
Q

1992

A

Group of students and researchers from University of Illinois developed a browser named Mosaic which became Netscape.

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