Ch6 Internet Flashcards
a world wide interconnected network of computers which use a common protocol to communicate with one another
Internet
The facilities available in the internet are (i) electronic mail:
- Remote login
- File transfer
- Word processing
Internet requires
a commonly agreed set of rules to communicate between computers
Each computer connected to the internet must
have a unique IP address
Internet addresses must always have at least a
country name or organization type
World Wide Web is a
collection of linked information residing on computers connected by the internet
A world wide web contains web pages residing in
many computer linked together using HTML
A web page is located using a
Uniform Resource Locator
A search engine is a
program to search web pages for information using specified search terms
HTML stands for
Hyper Text Markup Language
An example of a correct format of Email address
name@website.info
The computer jargon – WWWW stands for
World Wide Web Worm
The process of transferring files from a computer on the internet to your computer
Downloading
Search engine examples:
- Bing
- Yahoo
Internet explorer falls under the name
Browser
