Chap 2 Flashcards
Examples of Wired
– Cable Internet service
– DSL (digital subscriber line)
– Fiber to the Premises (FTTP)
Examples of Wireless
– Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity)
– Mobile broadband
– Fixed wireless
– Satellite Internet Service
a wireless network that provides
Internet connections to mobile computers and
devices
A hot spot
a business that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet free or for a fee
An Internet service provider (ISP)
a sequence of numbers that
uniquely identifies the location of each computer or
device connected to the Internet or any other
network
IP address
domain name
a text-based name that
corresponds to the IP address of a server
DNS server
translates the domain name into its
associated IP address
consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents (webpages)
World Wide Web (WWW)
website
a collection of related webpages and
associated items
web server
a computer that delivers requested
webpages to your computer or mobile device
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
a set of symbols that developers use to specify the
headings, paragraphs, images, links, and other
content elements that a webpage contains
the first page that a website
displays
A home page
Current browsers typically
tabbed browsing
Popular Browsers :
Apple Safari
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
A webpage has a unique address
a web address or URL
web search engine
software that finds websites, webpages, images, videos, news, maps, and other information related to a specific topic
several types of websites
– Search engine
– Online social network
– Informational and research
– Media sharing
– Bookmarking
– News, weather, sports, and other mass media
Web publishing
is the creation and maintenance
of websites
Purposes of websites
- Careers and employment
- E-commerce
- Portals
- Content aggregation
- Website creation and management
- Entertainment
- Banking and finance
- Travel and tourism
- Mapping
- Retail and auctions
- Educational
- Business, governmental, and organizational
- Blogs
- Wiki and collaboration
- Health and fitness
- Science
Multimedia
refers to any application that combines
text with media
– Graphics
– Animation
– Audio
– Video
– Virtual Reality
graphic
a visual representation of non-text
information
a visual representation of data
and information, designed to communicate
quickly, simplify complex concepts, or present
patterns or trends
An infographic
Animation
the appearance of motion created by
displaying a series of still images in sequence
the use of computers to
simulate a real or imagined environment that
appears as a three-dimensional (3-D) space
Virtual reality (VR)
