Friday, November 14, 2014

APROG1C

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide. It is an international network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government packet switched networks, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertextdocuments and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing and telephony.
e-mail
messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network.

HTML
  1. Hypertext Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.

Top-level domain

top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.[1] The top-level domain names are installed in theroot zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com (the "dot" and the word that follows it).
.gov
.org
.mil
.educ
download
copy (data) from one computer system to another, typically over the Internet

upload
transfer (data) from one computer to another, typically to one that is larger or remote from the user or functioning as a server.

website
  1. a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.

web page
a hypertext document connected to the World Wide Web.

internaut
  1. a user of the Internet, especially a habitual or skilled one.

Newbies

Newbienewbnoobn00bnoobien00bie or nub is a slang term for a novice or newcomer, or somebody inexperienced in any profession or activity. Contemporary use can particularly refer to a beginner or new user of computers, often concerning Internet activity, such as online gaming or Linux use. It can have derogatory connotations, but is also often used for descriptive purposes only, without a value judgment.

search engine
  1. a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the World Wide Web.
    example: google, yahoo, bing
  2. Web browser

  3. Short for Web browser, a browser is a software application used to locate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files. As aclient/server model, the browser is the client run on a computer that contacts the Web server and requests information. The Web serversends the information back to the Web browser which displays the results on the computer or other Internet-enabled device that supports a browser.
  4. The two most popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. Other major browsers include Google ChromeApple Safari and Opera
Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity)
  1. Wi-Fi is the name of a wireless networking technology that usesradio waves to provide high-speed network and Internet connections. 
modem
a combined device for modulation and demodulation, for example, between the digital data of a computer and the analog signal of a telephone line.

HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and former CERN employee, and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau are considered the inventors of the Web. On March 12, 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.

ISP

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. Internet service providers may be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privately owned.

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