Chapter 10-The Internet

Question 1

Packet Switching

Answer 1

Sending digital messages in chunks through any open pathway, to be reassembled at their destination.

Question 2

Protocols

Answer 2

Software codes that enable one computer to communicate with another.

Question 3

World Wide Web

Answer 3

A simplified means of navigating the Internet based on hypertext links and graphical user interfaces.

Question 4

Hypertext Links (hyperlinks)

Answer 4

Highlighted words and images within a web page that allow the user to move to another site by pointing and clicking a mouse button.

Question 5

Browser

Answer 5

A software program that enables a user to move around the internet.

Question 6

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Answer 6

A set of browser features such as icons and hot spots that allow users to navigate websites easily.

Question 7

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Answer 7

An internet address that connects the user to a website on a particular computer.

Question 8

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http)

Answer 8

The protocol that enables computers to recognize links on the World Wide Web.

Question 9

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Answer 9

The basic computer language used to write hypertext transfer protocol (http).

Question 10

Java

Answer 10

An advanced programming language used for animated images and advanced sound applications.

Question 11

Streaming

Answer 11

Sending live video and broadcasting over online applications.

Question 12

Buffering

Answer 12

Downloading and saving a video file at the same time it is being viewed.

Question 13

Web 2.0

Answer 13

The idea of a second-generation internet that is highly participatory, allowing users to improve it as they use it.

Question 14

Mashup

Answer 14

Online participation in which users combine material and add to the application as they use it.

Question 15

Cloud Computing

Answer 15

Using online software applications rather than tools and information housed on a personal computer.

Question 16

Cell Technology

Answer 16

Radio-wave towers are set up on a grid so that each area of the grid is supplied with radio service.

Question 17

Distance Learning

Answer 17

Taking classes at locations other than a school facility, especially online.

Question 18

Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG’s)

Answer 18

Games such as EverQuest that allow many players to join in over the internet.

Question 19

Spyware

Answer 19

Programs that track internet user’s activities and report them back to advertisers.

Question 20

SMS (short message service)

Answer 20

Mobile phone text messaging.

Question 21

MMS (multimedia message service)

Answer 21

Mobile phone text messaging that includes image, sound, or video.

Question 22

Portals

Answer 22

Sites from which users begin their web surfing.

Question 23

E-Commerce

Answer 23

The selling of goods and services online.

Question 24

Hacker

Answer 24

One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to computer networks or files.

Question 25

Phishing

Answer 25

Sending fake e-mails to get victims to reveal sensitive information.

Question 26

Spam

Answer 26

Unsolicited e-mail messages.

Question 27

Cookie

Answer 27

A file placed on a computer’s hard drive that enables that computer to be tracked.