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46-58 computer literacy
Question | Answer |
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is a network that covers a large geographical area, such as one that connects the district offices of a national corporation | Wide Area Network |
Wide Area Network | WAN |
is a worldwide collection of networks that links together millions of computers by means of modems, telephone lines, cables, and other communication devices and media | Internet |
is an organization that supplies connections to the Internet for a monthly fee | Internet Service Provider |
Internet Service Provider | ISP |
provides access to the Internet, but it also provides a variety of other specialized content and services such as financial data, hardware and software guides, news, weather, and legal information | Online Service Provider |
Online Service Provider | OSP |
A system of Internet servers that uses HTTP to transfer specially formatted documents | World Wide Web |
World Wide Web | WWW or “Web” |
is a document that contains text, graphics, sound, and/or hyperlinks to other Web documents | Web Page |
is a related collection of Web pages | Web Sites |
a software program allowing people to view Web pages on the Internet. examples: Microsoft Explorer Netscape | Web Browser |
a Web page’s unique address on the Internet | Uniform Resource Locator |
Uniform Resource Locator | URL |
is the communications standard used to transfer pages on the Web | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol | http |
indicates who wrote and maintains the Web page | Domain Name |
is a computer that delivers (serves) requested Web pages | Web Server |
conducting business activities online | Electronic Commerce |
Electronic Commerce | e-commerce |