Chap 2 Flashcards
Examples of Wired
– Cable Internet service
– DSL (digital subscriber line)
– Fiber to the Premises (FTTP)
Examples of Wireless
– Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity)
– Mobile broadband
– Fixed wireless
– Satellite Internet Service
a wireless network that provides
Internet connections to mobile computers and
devices
A hot spot
a business that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet free or for a fee
An Internet service provider (ISP)
a sequence of numbers that
uniquely identifies the location of each computer or
device connected to the Internet or any other
network
IP address
domain name
a text-based name that
corresponds to the IP address of a server
DNS server
translates the domain name into its
associated IP address
consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents (webpages)
World Wide Web (WWW)
website
a collection of related webpages and
associated items
web server
a computer that delivers requested
webpages to your computer or mobile device
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
a set of symbols that developers use to specify the
headings, paragraphs, images, links, and other
content elements that a webpage contains
the first page that a website
displays
A home page
Current browsers typically
tabbed browsing
Popular Browsers :
Apple Safari
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
A webpage has a unique address
a web address or URL
web search engine
software that finds websites, webpages, images, videos, news, maps, and other information related to a specific topic
several types of websites
– Search engine
– Online social network
– Informational and research
– Media sharing
– Bookmarking
– News, weather, sports, and other mass media
Web publishing
is the creation and maintenance
of websites
Purposes of websites
- Careers and employment
- E-commerce
- Portals
- Content aggregation
- Website creation and management
- Entertainment
- Banking and finance
- Travel and tourism
- Mapping
- Retail and auctions
- Educational
- Business, governmental, and organizational
- Blogs
- Wiki and collaboration
- Health and fitness
- Science
Multimedia
refers to any application that combines
text with media
– Graphics
– Animation
– Audio
– Video
– Virtual Reality
graphic
a visual representation of non-text
information
a visual representation of data
and information, designed to communicate
quickly, simplify complex concepts, or present
patterns or trends
An infographic
Animation
the appearance of motion created by
displaying a series of still images in sequence
the use of computers to
simulate a real or imagined environment that
appears as a three-dimensional (3-D) space
Virtual reality (VR)
transmission of messages and files via
a computer network
email program
allows you to create, send,
receive, forward, store, print, and delete email
messages
email list
a group of email addresses used
for mass distribution of a message
services, which often occur in
real-time, are communications services that notify
you when one or more of your established contacts
are online and then allows you to exchange
messages or files or join a private chat room with
them
Internet messaging
chat
a real-time typed conversation that takes
place on a computer or mobile device with many
other online users
a website or application that
permits users to chat with others who are online at
the same time
chat room
online discussion
an online area in which
users have written discussions about a particular
subject
enables users to speak to other
users via their Internet connection
VoIP (Voice over IP)
an Internet standard
that permits file uploading and downloading to and
from other computers on the Internet
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Netiquette
is the code of acceptable Internet
behavior users should follow while on the
Internet
A citation
is a formal reference to a source, such as a published
work.
it is not subject to copyright.
A public domain
