CIS105 Chap 2
Terms
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- today approximately how many people connect to the internet?
- 1/2 billion
- web, email, newsgroups, message boards, mailing lists, chat rooms, and instant messaging are all?
- internet services
- internet roots which allow scientists to work togther
- ARPANET
- any computer that provides services to other computers on a network
- host
- today approximately how many hosts are on the internet?
- 150 million
- oversees research and sets standards and guidelines for many areas of the internet
- World wide web consortium (W3C)
- how many organizations are members of (W3C)?
- more than 500
- technologies that provide higher speed internet connections using copper telephone lines
- DSL and ISDN
- DSL stands for
- Digital subscriber line
- ISDN stands for?
- Intergrated services digital network
- a regional or national access provider
- (ISP) internet service provider
- earth link is an example of?
- internet service provider
- has many members only features ex: AOL and MSN
- (OSP) online service provider
- company that provides wireless internet access to users with wireless modems or web-enabled mobile devices
- (WISP) wireless internet sevice provider
- AT&T wireless and verizon wireless are examples of?
- (WISP) wireless internet service providers
- several main transmission media which carry the heaviest amount of traffic on the internet
- internet backbone
- a number that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the internet
- (IP) internet protocol address
- 4 groups of numbers, seperated by a period
- IP address
- Ist group of numbers in an IP addres identifies
- network
- Last group of numbers in a IP address identifies
- individual computer
- text version of one or more IP addresses
- domain name
- com portion of a domain that identifies type or organization associated with the domain
- top-level domain
- outside the US top level domains include
- country code
- top level domain- com stands for
- commercial organizations, businesses and companies
- top level domain- edu stands for
- educational organizations
- top level domain- gov stands for
- government agencies
- top level domain mil stands for
- military organizations
- top level domain- net stands for
- network providers
- top level domain- org stands for
- nonprofit organizations
- newer top level domain- museum stands for
- accredited museums
- newer top level domain- biz stands for
- businesses
- newer top level domain- info stands for
- business organizations, or individuals providing general information
- newer top level domain- name stands for
- individuals or families
- newer top level domain- pro stands for
- proffesional certified doctors, lawyers, and accountants
- newer top level domain- aero stands for
- aviation community members
- newer top level domain- coop stands for
- credit unions and rural electric co-ops
- websites are stored on
- web servers
- application software that allows users to access and view web pages
- web browser/browser
- internet explorer, netscape, and mozilla are examples of?
- web browsers
- the process of a computer receiving information, such as web pages, from a server on the internet
- downloading
- web page's unique address
- (URL) uniform resouce locator
- (URL) uniform resource locator is another name for?
- web address
- is a set of rules that defines how pages transfer on the web
- (http) hypertext transfer protocol
- http stands for
- hypertext transfer protocol
- delivers requested web pages to your computer
- web server
- built-in connection to another related web page or part of a web page
- hyperlink (link)
- using links to explore the web
- surfing the web
- web site that offers a variety of internet services from a single convienent location
- portal
- web site that contains content that describes a cause, opinion, or idea
- advocacy
- refers to any application that combines text with graphics, animation, audio, video, and/or virtual reality
- multimedia
- graphic format that compresses graphics to reduce file size, but maintain quality
- JPEG
- another graphic format that compresses to reduce file size other than JPEG
- GIF
- small version of a larger graphic
- thumbnail
- reduces audio file to about 1/10 the size while preserving much of the quality
- MP3
- the process of transferring data in a continous even flow
- streaming
- streaming audio, view longer or live video images as they download to your computer
- (MPEG) moving pictures experts group
- use of computers to stimulate a real or imagined environment that appears as a three-dimensional space
- virtual reality (VR)
- a program that extends the capability of a browser
- plug-in
- acrobat reader, flash player, quick time and real one player are examples of
- plug-in
- is the business transaction that occurs over an electronic network, such as the internet
- e-commerce
- shopping, investing, and banking are examples of
- e-commerce
- combination of a user name and a domain name
- email address
- holds messages in your mailbox until you use your e-mail
- incoming mail server
- is an internet standard that permits the process of file uploading and downloading (transferring) with other computers on the internet
- (FTP) file transfer protocol
- process of transferring documents graphics, and other objects from your computer to a server on the internet
- uploading
- an online area in which users have written discussions about a particular subject
- news group
- to participate in a news group you use a program called a
- news reader
- web- based discussion group
- message board
- to start a chat session you need to connect to a
- chat server
- the development and maintenance of web pages
- web publishing
- how many steps of web publishing?
- five
- step one of web publishing is
- plan a web site
- step two of web publishing is
- analyze and design a web site
- step 3 of web publishing is
- create a web site
- step 4 of web publishing is
- deploy a web site
- step 5 of web publishing is
- maintain a web site