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Internet app review
IBA
Question | Answer |
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2 reasons you should avoid using all caps in your emails | People think you are shouting and it is hard to read |
Emoticons | Expressions you create using characters on your keyboard |
Bandwidth | Data-carrying capacity of telephone lines |
Browser | Also called Web browser. Digital Technology . a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, especially such a program for use on the World Wide Web. |
Cookie | Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page. |
Domain name | a name owned by a person or organization and consisting of an alphabetical or alphanumeric sequence followed by a suffix indicating the top-level domain: used as an Internet address to identify the location of particular Web pages: |
Home page | the initial page of a site on the World Wide Web. |
Http:// | Http stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol--the method used to transfer hypertext files across the Internet. |
World Wide Web | a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet. Abbreviation: WWW |
Net addresses | An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. |
Social networking | The development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services |
Google apps | Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. |
Spamming | Indiscriminately posting unrelated comments, or worse--advertisements. |
URL | An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, a URL is the address for a resource or site on the World Wide Web and the convention that web browsers use for locating files and other remote services. |
Client | A client is a program that uses the services of another program. The client program is used to contact and obtain data or request a service from a server. |
HTML | An acronym for Hypertext Markup Language, HTML is the computer language used to create hypertext documents. HTML uses a finite list of tags that describe the general structure of various kinds of documents linked together on the World Wide Web. |
Hypertext | Hypertext usually refers to any text available on the World Wide Web that contains links to other documents. |
Hotlist | collection of favorite or frequently used Web sites or those about a specific topic; also called bookmarks, favorites, also written hot list |
Search engine | A search engine is a type of software tool that creates indexes of Internet sites based on the titles of files, keywords, or the full text of files. |
Credibility | The quality of being believable or worthy of trust |
Blogs | a Web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other Web sites. |
Podcasts | A digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a Web site to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show. |
IP address | A code that identifies a computer network or a particular computer or other device on a network, consisting of four numbers separated by periods. |
Is there a regulating body that monitors the reliability of what is on the internet? | Nopeeeeeeeeeeee |
What should you check your information that you find on the Internet against? | 1. Who is the author or sponsor of the page? 2. Are there obvious reasons for bias? 3. Is contact information provided? 4. Is there a copyright symbol on the page? 5. Is this page a "zombie," or one considered "walking dead" because the person who |