computer term stuff
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| avatar | refers to a character that represents an online user
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| cookie | is a small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser
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| downloading | process in which data is sent to your computer
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| flaming | the act of posting or sending offensive messages over the Internet
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| search engines | Google, Excite, Lycos, AltaVista, Infoseek, and Yahoo
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| firewall | allows authorized traffic from the Internet to flow in and out of the network
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| address bar | a text field near the top of a Web browser window that displays the URL of the current webpage.
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| social networking | allow users to be part of a virtual community
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| phishing | con game that scammers use to collect personal information from unsuspecting users
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| data streaming | multimedia file can be played back without being completely downloaded first.
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| web site | collection of web pages
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| motherboard | main circuit board of your computer
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| output device | Any device that outputs information from a computer
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| router | allowing only authorized machines to connect to other computer systems
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| malware | refers to software programs designed to damage or do other unwanted actions on a computer system
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| artificial intelligence | the ability for a computer to act like a human
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| ergonomics | used to create comfortable workstations for employees
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| gigahertz | equal to 1,000 megahertz,commonly used to measure computer processing speeds
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| bit | a single digit number in base-2 (a zero or a one) and is the smallest unit of computer data.
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| byte | a unit of measurement used to measure data
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| gigabyte | 2 to the 30th power, or 1,073,741,824 bytes
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| megabyte | 2 to the 20th power, or 1,048,576 bytes
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| terabyte | 2 to the 40th power, or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
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| virtual reality | best described as an illusion of reality created by a computer system
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| control panel | a feature of the Windows operating system that allows the user to modify system settings and controls
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