Ch. 18 Learning The Internet
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
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| tiers | broken down groups of the internet
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| Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) | service that provides structure for the "World Wide Web"
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| World Wide Web | the graphical face for the internet, web
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| Web browser | a program specifically designed to retrieve, interpret, and display Web pages
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| Internet service providers (ISPs) | Company that provides access for the Internet, usually for money
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| default gateway | router that connects you to the internet
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| Dial-Up Networking (DUN) | Microsoft's Dial Up software to govern the connection
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| Modem | enables computers to talk to each other via standard commercial telephone lines by converting analog signals to digital signals, and visa versa
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| universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) | converts individual serial bits of data into 8-bit parallel data that the PC can undertstand
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| baud | unit of speed the phone line is based on, one cycle per second
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| bits per second (bps) | functionally synonymous with baud
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| V standards | modern modem standards
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| handshaking | the process by which two serial devices a conversation
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| Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) | a streaming protocol developed especially for dial-up Internet access
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| integrated services digital network (ISDN) | the process of sending telephone transmission across fully digital lines end-to-end
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| Digital Subscriber line (DSL) | use a standard telephone line but special equipment on each end to create always-on Internet connections at blindingly fast speeds
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| Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) | enables one system to share its Internet connection with other systems on the network
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| Virtual Private Network (VPN) | use encrypted tunnels between a computer (or a remote network) to create a private network
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| tunneling | consists of two endpoints
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| Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) | advanced version of the PPP protocol that handles all out this out of the box
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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