chapter 4 Flashcards
In 1969, the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense began connecting computers at four universities in the western United States. The resulting network was called….
ARPANET
The national Science Foundation created [blank] in 1981 to bring together researchers in the field of computer science
CSNET
The [blank] is a huge, decentralized, and cooperative community of over 2 billion users worldwide
internet
The [blank] is a global system of linked, hypertext documents
World Wide Web
The hypertext in these documents refers to text that is capable of acting as a [blank], or connector, to another piece of text of document
hyperlink
web-based documents are normally referred to as…
web pages
several related pages that connect to each other are referred to as a …
website
websites are typically located, or hosted, on servers known as…
web servers
request web pages are transmitted using a protocol known as…
HTTP
hypertext transfer protocol
the fundamental language of a web page is …
HTML
hypertext markup language
Web pages also have a standard addressing system known as a [blank], which allows them to be located on the internet
URL
uniform resource locator
the [blank] uniquely identifies a site and a brand on the web
domain name
the [blank] of a URL is located just before the domain. It usually indicates a specific subdivision or server within a large site
subdomain
The last part of a URL will list the [blank] and [blank] where the web page file is located
folders
subfolders (or directories)
spam
unsolicited email that is sent in bulk (junk mail)
section of an email used to send a copy of your message to individuals other than your primary recipient
Cc
any email address placed in [blank] will be invisible to the recipients of your message
Bcc
[blank] is sometimes preferably to email because messages and conversations between two or more people occur instantaneously
real-time communication
[blank] is the act of having an online, text-based conversation with one or more individuals
instant messaging
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
translates analog voice signals into digital data and uses the Internet to transport the data
[blank] is the broadcast of various types of media, such as radio and TV, over the web
webcast
peer-to-peer (p2p)
method of file sharing that uses a distributed network of individual users instead of a central server to transfer files
the act of receiving a file
downloading
sending a file
uploading
