intro to computers chpt2
Terms
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- internet
- world's largest computer network
- Web
- contains the body content stored on internet servers
- Web pages
- may contain text, images, interactive animation, games, etc.
- website
- made up of several web pages
- web 2.0
- marks a change from people reading info to people interacting by reading and writing online content
- web 3.0
- next phase in online usage; will host collaborative content connected in different ways
- Semantic Web
- study of meaning in language
- Internet Service Provider
- lets you use their technology
- internet protocol address
- series of numbers; identifies a location on the internet
- uniform resource locator
- text based address (URL)
- web address
- text based address
- browser
- translates web pages (HTML)
- download
- to transit data on your own computer
- upload
- to transit data from your own computer on the internet
- domain name
- identifies particular company or organization name the site belongs to
- top level domain
- .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov
- hyperlink
- describes destination within a document to take you to that webstite
- hypertext
- text that is linked to website
- home page
- displayed when you enter the site URL
- search engine
- google, yahoo, ask.com etc.
- search directory
- a type of search engine (finance, news, shopping, etc)
- keywords
- search text
- metasearch engine
- dogpile.com; searhces keywords across several websites at the same time
- plug-in
- something to install to see or hear content
- player
- installed in your browser to see or hear content; same as plug in
- streaming video
- video that is delivered as a constant stream of content
- copyright
- legal ownership
- intellectual property
- creations of the mind (inventions, literature, artistic works, etc.)
- peer to peer file sharing program
- shares music, videos, etc. by downloading
- invisible web
- hidden collections of information
- crawler
- agent that trails hyperlinks to locate online data
- data integration
- combines data from several online sources into one search result
- e-commerce
- electronic commerce
- business-to-consumer
- B2C; companies selling to conseumer (amazon)
- business-to-business
- B2B; business selling to another business (medical supplies sold to hospitals)
- consumer-to-consumer
- C2C; consumer selling to another consumer (ebay)
- first services available on internet
- email program
- sends messages, add attachments, receive and reply to messages store contact info, etc.
- email client
- manages accounts you created on the internet
- email address
- user name, domain name, and domain suffix,
- voice over internet protocol
- transmission technology that allows you to make phone calls over the internet
- web conferencing
- allows companies to conduct live meetings over the internet
- multipurpose internet mail extensions
- MIME; format for messages that are sent over internet
- simple mail transfer protocol
- SMTP; protocol installed on ISP that determines how each message is to be routed through internet
- internet message access protocol
- IMAP; communications protocol thatv receive email from mail server and delivers to proper mailbox
- post office protocol version 3
- communications protocol that receives email from mail server and delivers to proper place