Computing CH. 2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Access Provider | An organization or business that provides internet access for free or for a fee.
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| Animation | A simulation of movement created by a series of moving images (frames).
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| Audio | The reproduction and transmission of sound stored in a digital format.
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| Blog | A Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual.
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| Browser | Application software that's used to locate, retrieve, and display content from web pages on the World Wide Web.
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| Cable Modem | A modem (a device allowing a computer to transmit data) designed to operate over cable TV lines.
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| Chat Room | A virtual room where multiple chat sessions take place with independent users.
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| DNS Server | (Domain Name System) An internet server that translates domain names into IP addresses.
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| Domain Name | An English text translation of an IP Address.
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| Downloading | Copying data from one source onto a peripheral device (like downloading music to a computer).
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| DSL | (Digital Subscriber Lines) Technologies that transfer data via copper wires from a telephone switching station to a home or office.
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| E-Commerce | Business conducted over the internet using any of the applications that rely on the internet (like email).
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| Emoticons | Simulated faces or people used to express emotions in online chat.
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| FTP | (File Transfer Protocol) The proper protocol for exchanging files over the internet.
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| Home Page | The main page of a website.
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| Internet | A decentralized global network that connects millions of computers.
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| IP Address | A unique series of numbers that is used to identify a specific computer or device.
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| ISP | A company that provides internet service, including personal and business access to the internet.
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| Link | A direct reference to another document that allows users to access that document when clicked.
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| Netiquette | The internet guidelines for posting messages to online services (particularly internet news groups).
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| Plug-in | A hardware or software module that adds a specific feature to a larger system (like Measure It for Google Chrome).
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| Portal | A Website that offers an array of services or resources, like Yahoo! or AOL.
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| RSS | The de facto standard for syndicated Web content. It can be used in several ways for the dispersion of information.
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| Search Engine | Programs that search the web for specified keywords and returns a list of documents where the keywords were located (can be crawlers or spiders).
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| Streaming | A technique for transferring data so that it can be processed steadily and continuously (without buffering).
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| Uploading | To transmit data from a computer to a bulletin board service, mainframe, or network.
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| URL | (Uniform Resource Locator) The global address of documents and other resources on the world wide web (made of a protocol identifier and a resource name).
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| VoIP | A category of hardware or software that allows users to transmit their voices through the internet like a phone call (Skype!).
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| Web 2.0 | The second generation of the world wide web that is dedicated to the collaboration between users that will enable them to share information online as easily as possible.
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| Web Browser | A software application that runs only on computers that are connected to the internet; it allows users to view web pages and access other technologies.
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| Wi-Fi | A collaborative website that comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors.
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