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1
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A worldwide collection of networks

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The Internet

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W3C

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tries to govern the internet, this way no country owns the internet , located in Switzerland

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WAN

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Wide Area Network

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LAN

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Local Area Network

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ARPANET

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Advanced Research Projects Agency; pentagon project started to develop a way to communicate between distance

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DSL

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Digital Subscriber Line, high speed telephone line

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1969

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year internet and email was invented

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Allow scientists at different locations to share information; function if part of the network were disabled

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e-mail; internet

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modem

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a combined device for modulation and demodulation

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Wi-Fi

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wireless fidelity

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A location that provides computers with Internet access , usually for a fee

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cybercafe

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a wireless network that provides Internet connections to mobile computers and devices

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hot spot

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services on the internet

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Instant messaging, internet telephony, newsgroups, email,chat rooms, web

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ISP

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internet service provider

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bandwidth

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represents the amount pf data that travels over a network

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megabyte

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millions of bytes per second

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gigabyte

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billions of bytes

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byte

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a character

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webpages

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worldwide collection of electronic documents

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website

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collection of related webpages

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web server

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computer that contains websites and delivers the requested webpages to your computer

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an application that enables users to access and view webpages

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browser

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homepage (also called a portal page)

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first page that a website displays

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search engine

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software that finds information related to a specific topic

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keyword search

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requires entering of words or phrases (search text)

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IP address

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a sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the internet

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domain name

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text-based name that corresponds to the IP address

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DNS

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domain name server; translates the domain name into its associated IP address

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TLD

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top-level-domain abbreviation eg, .com, .gov, .org

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spider

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software reads web pages and creates an index

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hit

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webpage link that is listed as a result of a search; ip address is not listed in the hit

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subject directory

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search tool with an organized set of topics and subtopics

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url

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uniform resource locator

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hypertext transfer protocol

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http://

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plug-ins

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run multimedia elements

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applet

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small application plug in

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jpeg

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picture format (complex images)

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gif

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clip art (line art) format

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thumbnails

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small versions of a larger image

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animation

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the appearance of motion

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marquees

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text scrolling across the screen

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animated gif

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combines several still images into a single file

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MP3

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compressed sound formats

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streaming audio

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listen as sound file is downloaded

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internet telephony

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internet telephone service

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VoIP

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Voice over IP (internet protocol)

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Real audio

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listen live to radio and tv

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streaming video

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view as video file is downloaded, allows video conferencing

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real video

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live video feeds

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MPEG

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motion picture experts group

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web app

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an application stored on a web server that you access through a browser

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web publishing

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the development and maintenance of websites

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FTP

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file transfer protocol

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