Internet Glossary
Tech Buzz Words
History of Social Networking
The History of GOOGLE
The History of computers
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Secret code of letters and numbers needed to gain access to a time-sharing computer or FTP system, or to protect Web pages
What is a password?
100
World Wide Web
What does WWW represent?
100
What is the first social network?
100
The year Google was invented
When is 1995?
100
Charles Babbage
Who invented the first computer?
200
A tool or program which allows keyword searching for relevant sites or information on the Internet, for example, Education World, WebCrawler, Infoseek, Lycos, and Yahoo.
What is a search engine?
200
To save something from someone else's computer through a network
What is a download?
200
Mark Zunkerburg
Who is the creator of Facebook?
200
Stanford University
Where was Google created?
200
The year Microsoft was created
What was 1985?
300
Short for Uniform Resource Locator. A string of characters used to uniquely identify a page of information on the WWW. This information is used by browser software to find other WWW, FTP, telnet, gopher, etc. sites on the Internet.
What is a URL?
300
Modem
What is a device that links computers through the phone line?
300
The year Facebook was launched
When is 2004?
300
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Who invented Google?
300
Top selling laptop brand of 2009
What is the HP laptop?
400
Hypertext Markup Language
What does HTML stand for?
400
Internet
What is the linking of the world's computers?
400
The year MySpace was launched
What is 2003?
400
15 years
How long has Google been alive?
400
A storage device named for its flexibility
What is the floppy disk?
500
Abbreviation for Frequently Asked Questions. A document (often a hypertext document) containing common questions and answers for a particular website or topic.
What does FAQ stand for?
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Network
What is a number of computers connected together?
500
A service that began in the 1970's as a buisness-oriented mainframe computer communication service.
What is CompuServe?
500
From the word Googol meaning a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros
How did Google get its name?
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The most frequently used website
What is Wikipedia?
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