The Web and The Internet - MST Flashcards
An application that receives incoming e-mail from local users and remote senders and forward outgoing e-mail for delivery
Mail Server
______ was the name of the browser that helped to get the World Wide Web popular, and _____ was the brand of the computer where the first web site was published.
Mosaic, Next
When did the US government allow business agencies to connect to internet?
1991
A key feature of web 2.0 that pertains to the trait of allowing for diverse information sharing through universal web access
Mass participation
Meaning of HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
A key feature of web 2.0 that pertains to the state of subscribing to a software only when needed
Software as a service
A program in computer that provides the business logic for an
application program
Application Server
The data communication standard of web pages; when a web page has this prefix, the links, text, and pictures should work correctly in a web browser.
HTTP
Specialized software, such as Google and Yahoo, that lets www browser users search for information on the web by using keywords, phrase
Search Engines
A hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly using a web browser
Wikis
An operating system and application updates that can typically be downloaded from the Internet
Software updates
Known as the “Read-write web” or “Dynamic page”, it is used to describe a new generation of Web services and applications with an increasing emphasis on human collaboration.
Web 2.0
________ may be any type of downloaded media, but ______ are hypertext media that have been formatted in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Web resources, webpages
A security component of a policy – based network that provides
authorization services and facilities tracking and control of files
Policy Server
It is the phone book of the internet and how we access information online.
Domain Name System (DNS)
An application program that provides a way to look information on the web
Browser
A computer program that serves requested HTML pages or files
Web Server
It is a coding language used to tell a browser how to place pictures, text, multimedia and links to create a web page.
HTML
Who was the English scientist who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and wrote the first web browser in 1990?
Tim Berners-Lee
It is a software that acts as an intermediary between an endpoint device, such as computer and another server from which a user is requesting.
Proxy Server
It is a small image representation of a larger image, usually intended to make it easier and faster to look at or manage a group of larger images.
Thumbnail
In the paper of Ted Nelson “Complex Information Processing: A
file Structure for the Complex, the Changing, and Indeterminate”, what were the terms coined?
hypertext and hypermedia
A website that let people upload and share their video clips
with the public at large or to invited guests
Video Sharing Sites
Who were considered as “The fathers of the internet” who also collaborated to develop a protocol for linking multiple networks together?
Vinton Gray Cerf & Robert Kahn
A computer responsible for central storage and management of data files so that other computers on the same network can access them
File Server
Web 1.0 is also known as _______.
Static Web Page
An organization that provides services for accessing, using or participating in the internet
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
In 1969, what was the first version of the internet created and set up as a network?
ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network)
A key feature of web 2.0 that pertains to a well designed rich user interface that draws the user in and encourages the user to interact with it and learn from the application
Rich user experience
It is defined as a formal set of standards and technical specifications used to define aspects of the world wide web.
Web Standards
It is a text that contains links to other texts or information. A word or words that contain a link to a website
Hypertext
A key feature of web 2.0 that pertains to a user-generated system of classifying and organizing online content into different categories by the use of metadata such as electronic tags
Folksonomy
What is the meaning of URL?
Uniform Resource Locators
Hardware device (wired or wireless) that acts as the traffic cop
for network signals arriving at your home or business from your ISP
Router or router-modem combination
It was the first generation of the world wide web, which, according to Berners-Lee, is the “read-only web.”
Web 1.0
The American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist who coined the term “hyperlink”
Ted Nelson (Theodor Holm Nelson)
It is a link from a hypertext file or document to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image on the screen, when clicked, redirects you to a specified URL.
Hyperlink
It is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the internet.
World Wide Web (WWW)
It is the mathematical scrambling of data so that it is hidden from eavesdroppers. It uses complex math formulas to turn private data into meaningless gobbledygook that only trusted readers can unscramble.
Encryption
An author, web designer, and expert in user experience, coined the term Web 2.0 in 1999 and predicted the influence it would have on public relations
Darcy DiNucci
It is the use of Internet-based social media sites to stay connected with friends, family, colleagues, customers, or clients. It can have a social purpose, a business purpose, or both, through sites.
Social Networking
When was the first “free net” created?
1986
It is a computer program that provides service to another computer program and its user
Servers
Known as the “Third Generation Internet”, “read-write-interact web”, and “Semantic Web”; its name was suggested by John Markoff of the New York Times.
Web 3.0
When a web page has this prefix, this indicates that the web page has a special layer of encryption added to hide your personal information and passwords from others.
HTTPS
It It is a term used for hypertext that is not constrained to be text. It can include graphics, video, and sound. The most common type of this is an image link.
Hypermedia
A key feature of web 2.0 that pertains to the services that are offered on demand rather than one time purchase
Long tail
Meaning of HTTP & HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol & Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
It is the largest computer network in the world that connects billions of computer user. It comes from combination between “interconnection” and “network”.
Internet
A key feature of web 2.0 that pertains to the owner of website being not the only one who is able to put content
User participation
It is a numerical label assigned to each device connected
to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. This provides identity to a network device.
IP Address (Internet Protocol)
It is a discussion or informational website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).
Blogs
