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