Chapter 3 Flashcards
The part of the Internet used the most. What distinguishes the web from the rest of the Internet are (1). It’s use of common communication protocols (such as transmission control protocols/internet protocol or TCP/IP) and special languages (such as Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML) that enable different computers to talk to each other and display information in comparable formats. And (2) it’s use of special links, called hyperlinks that enable users to jump from one place to another on the web.
World Wide Web (www or the web)
Clinton Cerf and Robert Kahn
Fathers of the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Calillau
Creators of the World Wide Web
A series of tags that define how elements on a website should be displayed in a browser.
hypertext markup language
Protocol that allows files to be transferred from a web server so that you can see them on your computer by using a browser.
Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
A computer that requests information from a server in a client/server network. (Such as your computer when you are connected to the Internet.
Client
A type of network that uses servers to deliver services to computers that are requesting them.
Client/server network
The main pathway of high speed communication lines over which all Internet traffic flows.
Internet Backbone
The means by which all computers connected to the Internet identify each other. It consists of a unique set of four numbers separated by dots such as 123.45.178.91
Internet Protocol (IP) Address
Websites that allow users to create and share content and/or participate in social networking with others.
Social Media
A means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information among their immediate friends and to meet and connect with others through common interests, experiences and friends.
Social Networking
A type of Internet that allows anyone visiting the site to change its content by adding, removing or editing the content.
wiki
Software designed to help assess the progress of a project as it moves towards completion.
project Management Tools
A personal log or journal posted on the web. Short for weblog
Blog
A personal online blog that uses video as the primary content in addition to text, images and audio.
Video Log (vlog or video blog)
A clip of audio or video content that’s broadcast over the Internet using compressed audio or video files in formats such as MP3.
Podcast
An xml based format that allows frequent updates of content on the World Wide Web.
Really Simple syndication.
A software program that finds and retrieves the latest update of web material (usually podcasts) according to your specifications.
Aggregator
A location on the web.
Webcast
A type of email system thats managed by a web browser and that allows access to email from the web.
Web Based Email
A software program that runs on a computer and is used to send and receive email through an internet service providers server.
Email Server
A program that enables users to communicate online in real time with others who are also online.
Instant Messaging (IM)
The process of conducting business online for purposes ranging from fund-raising to advertising to selling products.
E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)
E-Commerce transactions between business and consumers.
Business-to-consumer (B2C)
E-Commerce Transactions between Businesses.
Business-to-Business (B2C)
E-Commerce transactions between consumers through online sites such as Ebay
Consumer-To-Consumer
A Subset of E-Commerce that uses social networks to assist in marketing and purchasing products.
Social Commerce
Software Installed on a computer system that allows individuals to locate, view and navigate the web.
Web Browser
Anything that involves one or more forms of media plus text.
Multimedia
A part of a uniform resource locator (URL). Domain names consist of two parts; The sites host and a suffix that indicates the type of organization. (example: popsci.com where popsci is the domain name and com is the suffix.
Domain Name
The protocol that allows files to be transfered from a web server so that you can see them on your computer by using a browser.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Part of the Microsoft.NET Framework; programs that a website uses to make information available to other websites.
Web Server
A protocol used to upload and download files from one computer to another over the internet.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
The portion of a domain name that identifies who maintains a given website. For example, berkley.edu is the domain name for the University of California at Berkley, which maintains that site.
Host
The suffix, often of three letters, (Such as com or edu) in the domain name that indicates the kind of organization the host is.
Top Level Domain
The information after the slash that indicates a particular file or path (Subdirectory) within the website.
Path (Subdirectory)
A navigation aid that shows users the path they have taken to get to a webpage or where the page is located within a website. It usually appears at the top of a page.
Breadcrumb Trail
Features in some browsers that place markers of websites Uniform Resource Locators (Urls) in an easily retrievable list.
Bookmarks
A feature in internet explorer that places a marker of a website’s URL in an easily retrievable list in the browser’s toolbar. (Called Bookmarks in some browsers)
Favorites
A bookmark that delivers updates as soon as they become available using Really Simple Syndication.
Live Bookmarks
A keyword or term that internet users assign to a web resource such as a web page, digital image, or video.
Tagging (Social Bookmarking)
An evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which information is defined in such a way as to make it more easily readable by composers.
Semantic Web (3.0)
