CH 2

Question 1

A worldwide collection of networks

Answer 1

The Internet

Question 2

W3C

Answer 2

tries to govern the internet, this way no country owns the internet , located in Switzerland

Question 3

WAN

Answer 3

Wide Area Network

Question 4

LAN

Answer 4

Local Area Network

Question 5

ARPANET

Answer 5

Advanced Research Projects Agency; pentagon project started to develop a way to communicate between distance

Question 6

DSL

Answer 6

Digital Subscriber Line, high speed telephone line

Question 7

1969

Answer 7

year internet and email was invented

Question 8

Allow scientists at different locations to share information; function if part of the network were disabled

Answer 8

e-mail; internet

Question 9

modem

Answer 9

a combined device for modulation and demodulation

Question 10

Wi-Fi

Answer 10

wireless fidelity

Question 11

A location that provides computers with Internet access , usually for a fee

Answer 11

cybercafe

Question 12

a wireless network that provides Internet connections to mobile computers and devices

Answer 12

hot spot

Question 13

services on the internet

Answer 13

Instant messaging, internet telephony, newsgroups, email,chat rooms, web

Question 14

ISP

Answer 14

internet service provider

Question 15

bandwidth

Answer 15

represents the amount pf data that travels over a network

Question 16

megabyte

Answer 16

millions of bytes per second

Question 17

gigabyte

Answer 17

billions of bytes

Question 18

byte

Answer 18

a character

Question 19

webpages

Answer 19

worldwide collection of electronic documents

Question 20

website

Answer 20

collection of related webpages

Question 21

web server

Answer 21

computer that contains websites and delivers the requested webpages to your computer

Question 22

an application that enables users to access and view webpages

Answer 22

browser

Question 23

homepage (also called a portal page)

Answer 23

first page that a website displays

Question 24

search engine

Answer 24

software that finds information related to a specific topic

Question 25

keyword search

Answer 25

requires entering of words or phrases (search text)

Question 26

IP address

Answer 26

a sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the internet

Question 27

domain name

Answer 27

text-based name that corresponds to the IP address

Question 28

DNS

Answer 28

domain name server; translates the domain name into its associated IP address

Question 29

TLD

Answer 29

top-level-domain abbreviation eg, .com, .gov, .org

Question 30

spider

Answer 30

software reads web pages and creates an index

Question 31

hit

Answer 31

webpage link that is listed as a result of a search; ip address is not listed in the hit

Question 32

subject directory

Answer 32

search tool with an organized set of topics and subtopics

Question 33

url

Answer 33

uniform resource locator

Question 34

hypertext transfer protocol

Answer 34

http://

Question 35

plug-ins

Answer 35

run multimedia elements

Question 36

applet

Answer 36

small application plug in

Question 37

jpeg

Answer 37

picture format (complex images)

Question 38

gif

Answer 38

clip art (line art) format

Question 39

thumbnails

Answer 39

small versions of a larger image

Question 40

animation

Answer 40

the appearance of motion

Question 41

marquees

Answer 41

text scrolling across the screen

Question 42

animated gif

Answer 42

combines several still images into a single file

Question 43

MP3

Answer 43

compressed sound formats

Question 44

streaming audio

Answer 44

listen as sound file is downloaded

Question 45

internet telephony

Answer 45

internet telephone service

Question 46

VoIP

Answer 46

Voice over IP (internet protocol)

Question 47

Real audio

Answer 47

listen live to radio and tv

Question 48

streaming video

Answer 48

view as video file is downloaded, allows video conferencing

Question 49

real video

Answer 49

live video feeds

Question 50

MPEG

Answer 50

motion picture experts group

Question 51

web app

Answer 51

an application stored on a web server that you access through a browser

Question 52

web publishing

Answer 52

the development and maintenance of websites

Question 53

FTP

Answer 53

file transfer protocol