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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Home Page | first page that a web site displays |
| Address Book | contains a list of names and e-mail addresses |
| Audio | music, speech, or any other sound |
| Vrworld | 3-d enviornment that contains infinite space and depth |
| DSL | provides high-speed internet connections using regular copper telephone lines |
| Link | built-in connection to another related web page |
| Online auction | where users bid on an item being sold by someone |
| Cable Modem | allows access to high-speed internet services through the cable tv network |
| Animation | the appearance of motion |
| WISP | company that provides wireless internet access to computers and mobile devices |
| Microbrowser | browserdesigned for PDAs and smart phones |
| News | type of website containing newsworthy material |
| Mcommerce | e-commerce that takes place using mobile devices |
| Server | proram used by a search engine to build lists of words found on web sites |
| DNS | method the internet uses to store domain names and their IP addresses |
| Domain Name | text version of an IP address |
| Portal | web site that offers a variety of internet services from a single, convenient locations |
| Edit | add articles to a newsgroup |
| Mpeg | popular video compression standard |
| Netiquette | code of acceptable behaviors users should follow while on the internet |
| Personal | type of web site maintained by a private individual or family |
| Graphic | digitalrepresentation of nontext information |
| Shopping Cart | allows the customer to collect purchases |
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation's network of five supercomputers centers |
| FTP | standard that permits file uploading and downloading on the internet |
| SMTP | communications protocol used by some outgoing mail servers |
| Hits | results of the search returned by a search engine |
| Virtual Reality | us of computers to simulate a real or imagined environment |
| Multimedia | application that combines text, graphics, animation, audio, video, and/or virtual reality |
| Plug in | program that extends the capability of a browser |
| Electronic Store Front | contains product descriptions, images, and a shopping cart |
| Username | unique combination of characters that indentifies a specific user |
| HOST | any computer that provides services and connections to others on a network |
| Dial Up Access | the computer's modem uses a standard telephone line to connect to the internet |
| Player | special software used to listen to an audio file on your computer |
| Web Server | computer that delivers requested web pages to your computer |
| URL | a web page's unique address |
| Instant messaging | real-time internet communications service |
| Advocacy | type of web site containing content that describes a cause, opinion, or idea |
| OSP | provides internet acess and members only features |
| IP address | number that uniquely identifies each computer connected to the internet |
| News group | online area for written discussions about a particular subject |
| Thumbnail | small version of a larger graphic |
| Spam | unsolicited e-mail message sent to many recipients at once |
| ISP | communications protocol used by some incoming mail servers |
| Chat | real-time typed conversation on a computer |
| Pool | request information from a web server |
| Video | full-motion images played back at various speeds |
| HTTP | set of rules that defines how pages transfer on thecomputer |
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