CIS Ch.1 – Flashcards
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is a network of networks that connects billions of computer users globally.
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The Internet
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-establishing a secure form of military communications -creating a means by which all computers could communicate.
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The Internet was created to respond to these two concerns:
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Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn
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who are the "fathers" of the Internet?
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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).
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what was the "internetworking" project called?
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software that lets you display and interact with text and other media on the web.
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web browser
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Robert Calliau and Tim Berners-Lee
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who created the first web browser?
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which could display graphics as well as text, was released in 1993
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Mosaic browser
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evolved from Mosaic and heralded the beginning of the web's monumental growth.
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The Netscape Navigator browser
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a computer that asks for data
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A client
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a computer that receives the request and returns the data to the client.
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A server
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The transmission lines with the fastest speeds
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Internet backbones
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is a set of four numbers separated by periods, such as 123.45.245.91, and is commonly referred to as a dotted quad or dotted decimal. (unique identification number)
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Internet Protocol (IP) address
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-Social web -Collaboration tools -E-mail
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Web 2.0
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refers to using the web to communicate and share information among your friends and others
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Social networking
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is managed with your web browser and accesses your e-mail from the web.
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Web-based e-mail
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a program to be installed on your computer. When you open the program, your e-mail is downloaded to your computer.
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An e-mail client
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are programs that let you communicate in real time over the Internet.
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Instant messaging (IM)
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that allows users to add, remove, or edit its content.
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A wiki
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requires contributors to provide real names and sign an ethics pledge, and all postings are monitored.
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Citizendium
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is a personal log or journal posted on the web.
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A blog (short for weblog)
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is a blog that uses video as the primary content
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A video log (vlog or video blog)
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which are artificially created blog sites filled with fake articles or stolen text
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spam blogs (splogs)
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is a form of digital media comprised of a series of audio or video files that are distributed over the Internet.
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A podcast
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a format that sends the latest content of the podcast series automatically to an aggregator such as iTunes or Feedspot.
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Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
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locates all the RSS series to which you've subscribed and automatically downloads only the new content to your computer or media player.
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Aggregator
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is the (usually live) broadcast of audio or video content over the Internet.
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A webcast
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-Graphics -Audio files -Video files
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Multimedia
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is multimedia (audio and video) that is continuously fed to your browser so don't have to wait for the file to download completely before listening to or watching it.
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Streaming media
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-Many preinstalled -Download free of charge
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Plug-in (or player)
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temporary storage place ( can also slow down your hard drive)
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This cache
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is the process of conducting business online.
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E-commerce, or electronic commerce
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transactions take place between businesses and consumers. Such transactions include those between customers and completely online businesses and those between customers and stores that have both an online and a physical presence, such as Target.
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Business-to-consumer (B2C)
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transactions occur when a business buys and sells goods and services to other businesses.
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Business-to-business (B2B)
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transactions occur when consumers sell to each other through sites such as eBay (ebay.com)
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Consumer-to-consumer (C2C)
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is a subset of e-commerce that uses social networks to assist in marketing and purchasing products.
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Social commerce
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is an evolving extension of the web in which data is defined in such a way to make it more easily processed by computers.
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The semantic web (or Web 3.0)
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is software that lets you locate, view, and navigate the web.
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A browser
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Web pages are loaded in "tabs" within the same browser window
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Tabbed browsing
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You can "dock" tabs to the taskbar (in Internet Explorer 9 and higher) or minimize and save them permanently (Google Chrome and Firefox) for easier navigation of your favorite sites.
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Pinned tabs:
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The protocol (set of rules) used to retrieve the document The domain name The path or subdirectory
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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is the protocol that allows files to be transferred from a web server so that you can see it on your computer.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
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http: - protocol www. nytimes.com - Domain name .com - Top-level domain pages/crossword - path or subdirectory
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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/crosswords
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is to use your browser's Bookmarks feature. (Internet Explorer calls them Favorites.)
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An easy way to return to a specific web page without having to type in the address...
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is a feature in Firefox that adds the technology of RSS feeds to bookmarking
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Live bookmark
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s saving your favorite website to a social bookmarking site so that you can share it with others. A social bookmark or tag is a keyword that is assigned to a web page, digital image, or video
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Tagging, also known as social bookmarking
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which constantly collects data on the web, following links in websites and reading web pages
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Spiders
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organizes the data into a large database.
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indexer program
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It searches the indexed data, pulling out relevant information.
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search engine software
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are words such as AND, NOT, and OR that describe the relationships between keywords in a search.
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Boolean operators
