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ARPANET   o ARPA designed a project to help scientists communicate and share valuable computer resources o Created in 1969, connected computers at UCLA, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Utah, and UC California at Santa Barbara  
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Exabyte   o 1.074 billion gigabytes  
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Internet Governance   o a set of shared protocols, procedures, and technologies that evolve through common agreement among network providers  
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ICANN   o Organization that supervises internet addressing is ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers  
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Internet infrastructure   The way networks fit together  
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Internet backbone   o system of high-capacity routers and fiber-optic communication links providing the main routes for data speeding across the Internet  
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Internet service provider (ISP)   o Networks that form the Internet are maintained by Internet service providers (ISPs) ISPs make a substantial investment in equipment and infrastructure to connect consumers Tier 1 ISPs own and maintain millions of dollars of data communication equipment  
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Internet exchange points   Where ISPs exchange data  
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Packet   Parcels of data that are sent out across a computer network that when they reach their destination they are reassembled into their original message according to sequence numbers  
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Circuit switching   Establishes a private link between one telephone and another for the duration of a call  
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Packet switching   Divides a message into several packets that can be routed independently to their destination  
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TCP   Core internet protocol that is reponsible for dividing files into chunks, adding headers containing information for reassembling packets to their original order and verifying that the data was not corrupted while in transit (error checking)  
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IP   Internet addresses are controlled by this protocol  
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IPv4   Standard internet address that uses 32-bit addresses  
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IPv6   uses 128 bits for each address and produces billions and billions of unique internet addresses  
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static IP address   permanently assigned IP  
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World Wide Web   collection of HTML docs, images, videos and sound files that can be linked to each other and accessed over the internet using a protocol called HTTP  
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Hypertext   describe a computer system that could store literary documents, link them in logical relationships and allow users to comment on what they read  
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Web site   contains a collection of related info organized and formatted so it can be accessed using a browser  
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Web server   internet based computer that stores web site content and accepts requests from browsers  
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Web page   based on HTML source document that is stored as a file on a web server  
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Hypertext links   web pages that are connected by these and are typically indicated by underlined or coloured text, a photo, button, tab or object  
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Undirectional links   document A links to document B but not vice versa  
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Bidirectional links   connects two documents using a two-way link  
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URL   Unique address that typically begin with to indicate the web's standard protocol  
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Linkrot   link death, link breaking- refers to process where hyperlinks on individual websites or the internet become permanently unavailable  
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Short URLs   created by services such as Bitly and Goo.gl  
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Default browser   web browser automatically used when opening a web page or clicking on a web link  
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predictive services   look ahead and anticipate what you might do. Fill in form data based on previous entries  
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Bookmarks   Link to pages you use frequently  
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Browser tabs   allow your browser to queue up multiple web pages so you can easily switch between them  
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Private IP   o can be allocated by any network without supervision from ICANN – but it cannot be used to send data over the Internet; it’s not routable  
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Public IP   local router has a public IP routable over the Internet  
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NAT   o can be allocated by any network without supervision from ICANN – but it cannot be used to send data over the Internet; it’s not routable  
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Domain name   easy to remember name for internet destinations  
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Domain name system   mechanism for tracking domain names and their corresponding IP addresses  
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Top level domain   a domain name ends with an extension indicating this; ie; .edu or .org  
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Domain name servers   scattered around the world and maintain lists of all domain names and their corresponding IP addresses  
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DNS spoofing   unauthorized changes to the DNS  
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drop box   stores files in the cloud  
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FTP(file transfer protocol)   provides a way to transfer files from one computer to another over any TCP/IP network such as LAN or Internetq  
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File hosting services   used to store files in the cloud  
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BitTorrent   Distributes the role of a file server across a collection of dispersed computers and is designed to reduce the bandwidth bottleneck that occurs when many people try to download the same large file  
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Browser cache   when your browser fetches pages and graphics to form a web page it stores that material on your device in temporary file  
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history list   sites that you've visited  
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Private browsing   Traces of your activity are not maintained in the history list or browser cache  
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Plugin   extends a browsers ability to work with file formats; ie; Adobe Flash Player  
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Browser extension   adds features to a browser to to give more functionality ie; AdBlock  
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Web search engine   computer program designed to help people locate info on the web by formulating simple queries consisting of one or more key words  
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Web crawler   combs the web to gather data that's representative of the contents of web pages; program automated to methodically visit websites and download pages and submit them to an indexing utility for processing- sophisticated algorithms keep things from looping  
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Invisible web   pages requiring logins and pages dynamically generated with server-side scripts  
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Search engine indexer   software that pulls keywords from a web page and stores them in an index database to make pages easy to find on their contents  
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Query processor   looks for your search terms in the search engine's indexed database and returns a list of relevant Web sites  
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How many queries does Google's query processor handle   more than 45,000 queries per second; sometimes exceeding 6billion per day  
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Link popularity   measure of the quality and quantity of the links from one page to the other  
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Search engine optimization   can affect the ranking and visibility of web pages  
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Sponsored link   bumped to the top positions on the results list; other search engines also accept paid ads but place them in clearly marked area  
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Search terms   keyword queries  
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search operator   word or symbol that describes a relationship between search terms and helps to create a more focused query  
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search history   stored in server logs on the search engine's computers  
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