Chapter 10-The Internet Flashcards
Packet Switching
Sending digital messages in chunks through any open pathway, to be reassembled at their destination.
Protocols
Software codes that enable one computer to communicate with another.
World Wide Web
A simplified means of navigating the Internet based on hypertext links and graphical user interfaces.
Hypertext Links (hyperlinks)
Highlighted words and images within a web page that allow the user to move to another site by pointing and clicking a mouse button.
Browser
A software program that enables a user to move around the internet.
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
A set of browser features such as icons and hot spots that allow users to navigate websites easily.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
An internet address that connects the user to a website on a particular computer.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http)
The protocol that enables computers to recognize links on the World Wide Web.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
The basic computer language used to write hypertext transfer protocol (http).
Java
An advanced programming language used for animated images and advanced sound applications.
Streaming
Sending live video and broadcasting over online applications.
Buffering
Downloading and saving a video file at the same time it is being viewed.
Web 2.0
The idea of a second-generation internet that is highly participatory, allowing users to improve it as they use it.
Mashup
Online participation in which users combine material and add to the application as they use it.
Cloud Computing
Using online software applications rather than tools and information housed on a personal computer.
Cell Technology
Radio-wave towers are set up on a grid so that each area of the grid is supplied with radio service.
Distance Learning
Taking classes at locations other than a school facility, especially online.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG’s)
Games such as EverQuest that allow many players to join in over the internet.
Spyware
Programs that track internet user’s activities and report them back to advertisers.
SMS (short message service)
Mobile phone text messaging.
MMS (multimedia message service)
Mobile phone text messaging that includes image, sound, or video.
Portals
Sites from which users begin their web surfing.
E-Commerce
The selling of goods and services online.
Hacker
One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to computer networks or files.
Phishing
Sending fake e-mails to get victims to reveal sensitive information.
Spam
Unsolicited e-mail messages.
Cookie
A file placed on a computer’s hard drive that enables that computer to be tracked.
