Chapter 2: Connecting and Communicating online: The internet, websites, and media Flashcards
A worldwide collection of networks that connects millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals.
Internet
Became functional in September 1969, linking scientific and academic researchers across the United States.
ARPANET (Advance Research Projects Agency Network)
Wireless network that provides Internet connections to mobile computers and devices.
Hotspot
Share the internet of one device to another machine has wifi access in it to use the other device’s internet.
Hotspot
It transforms a smartphone into a portable communications device that shares its Internet access with other computers and devices wirelessly.
Tethering
A process in which you can share the data or anything while connecting the device with the help of a Data cable or USB cable.
Tethering
Refers to high-speed internet access.
Broadband
Is a business or company that provides individuals and organizations access to the internet free or for a fee. Example: PLDT, Globe, Fiber, etc.
Internet Service Providers (ISP)
Represents the amount of data that travels over a network.
Bandwidth
One million characters, which is equal to 1,024 kilobytes.
Megabytes
Equal to one billion characters, which is equal to 1,024 megabytes.
Gigabytes
Is an ISP that offers wireless internet access to computers and mobiles devices with the necessary built-in wireless capability.
Mobile Service Provider (wireless data provider)
Is the smallest unit of information in a computer. It is used to store data and implement in groups of bytes.
Bit (Binary Digit)
Is a sequence of numbers that uniquely identifies the location of each computer or device connected to the Internet.
IP Address (Internet Protocol Address)
Is the text-based name that corresponds to the IP address of a server that hosts a website.
Domain Name
It is the suffix name of the domain that identifies the type of organization associated with the domain name.
Top-Level Domain
Is the method that the Internet uses to store domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. The _____server translates the domain name to its associated IP address so that the request can be routed to the correct computer.
Domain Name System (DNS)
Translates the domain name to its associated IP address so that the request can be routed to the correct computer.
Domain Name System Server
Is a server on the internet that usually is associated with an ISP. It translates the domain name to its associated IP address.
DNS server
An application that enables users with an internet connection to access and view webpages on a computer.
Browser
TLD: .com
commercial organizations, businesses, and companies
TLD: .edu
educational insitutions
TLD: .gov
government agencies
TLD: .mil
military organizations
TLD: .net
network or commercial
TLD: .org
nonprofit organizations
Refers to the first page that is displayed on a web.
Homepage
Where the top of the browser shows a tab for each webpage you display. It allows us to have multiple home pages that automatically are displayed when the browser runs.
Tabbed Browsing
A webpage has a unique address. And that identifier is used to locate a resource on the internet.
Web address or URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Is a set of rules that defines how webpages transfer on the internet.
HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
Is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more websites. Example: When a company that has space on servers and people buy space to store their websites so they can appear on the internet.
Hosting / Web Hosting
Is an application stored on a web server that you can access through a browser.
Web App
An application you download from a mobile device’s app store or other location on the Internet to a smartphone.
Mobile App
Is the creation and maintenance of websites.
Web Publishing
Is a navigation system that consist of one or more earth-based receivers that accept and analyze signals sent by satellites in order to determine the receiver’s geographic location.
GPS (Global Positioning System)
Is a software that finds websites, webpages, images, videos, news, maps, and other information.
Search Engine
The word or phrase that you enter in the search engine.
Search Text
A website that enables members to manage and share media such as photos, videos, and music.
Media Sharing Site
A website that enables members to organize, tag, and share links to media and other online content. (Promote books in social media channels).
Bookmarketing site
An informal website consisting of time-stamped articles or posts in a diary or journal format usually listed in a reverse chronological order.
Blog (weblog)
The worldwide collection of blogs.
Blogosphere
Allows users to publish short messages usually between 100-200 characters for others to read.
Microblog
Type of collaborative website that allows users to create, add, modify, or delete the website content via a browser.
Wiki
Is any application that combines text with media.
Multimedia
Is a visual representation of nontext information, such as drawing, chart, or photo.
Graphics
Is a small version of a larger image.
Thumbnail
Is a visual representation of data or information, designed to communicate quickly, simplify complex concepts, or present patterns or trends.
Infographic (Information graphic)
Is compressed graphics format that attempts to reach a balance between image quality and file size. The more compressed the file, the smaller the image and the lower the quality (JPG).
JPEG
A patent-free compressed graphics format that restored all image details when the file is view. This does not lose image quality during compression.
PNG
Is an electronic image format by Adobe systems that mirrors the appearance of an original document.
PDF (Portable Document Format)
The appearance of motion created by displaying a series of still images in sequence.
Animation
This includes music, speech, or any other sound. That uses media player to play this.
Audio
Consists of images displayed in motion with accompanying audio.
Video
Is the use of computers to simulate a real or imagines environment that appears as a three-dimensional (3D) space.
Virtual Reality (VR)
Is a program that extends the capability of a browser or to display multimedia. This adds new functions to a host program without altering the host program itself.
Plug-in
Is the transmission of messages and files via a computer network. This is one of the original services on the internet.
The combination of user name and a domain name that identifies a user so that he can receive Internet email.
Email Address
A unique combination of characters that identifies a specific user.
User name
Allows to create, send, receive, forward, store, print, and delete email messages.
Email Program
Is a real-time typed conversation.
Chat
Is a group of email addresses used for mass distribution of a message.
Email Lists
Are communication 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.
Instant Messaging
A website or application that permits users to chat with others who are online at the same time (GC).
Chat rooms
An online area in which users have written discussions about a particular subject.
Online Discussion
It enables users to speak to other users via their internet connection. It uses the internet to connect a calling party to one or more local or long distance called parties.
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
An internet standard that permits file uploading and downloading to and from other computers on the internet.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
It is a computer that allows users to upload and/or download files using FTP.
FTP server
Is the code of acceptable behavior users should follow while on the internet.
Netiquette
