Simple
Terms
Web 2.0
Internet
Safety
Parts of a
Computer
In the Mix
100
A way to quickly access a favorite website by saving it in your browser
What is a Bookmark?
100
An interactive forum where you can talk in real-time. This is the place or location online where the talking is taking place. Many of these are established so that people can discuss a common interest like music or movies.
What is a Chat Room
100
A computer program that can destroy files or make your computer "crash." These can be sent via e-mail or through other file-sharing programs. You can help keep this from damaging your computer by using special software and not downloading information from people you don't know.
What is a Virus?
100
A hand-held, button-activated input device that when rolled along a flat surface directs a cursor to move about a computer screen.
What is a Mouse?
100
Courtesy, honesty, and polite behavior practiced on the Internet.
What is Netiquette?
200
A file that can be added to an e-mail, like a document, photograph, or song. Sometimes they carry viruses, so do not open this from unknown parties.
What is an attachment?
200
An online journal or diary where writers may chronicle their daily lives or comment on news and popular culture.
What is a Blog. Writers are known as bloggers. Blogs can be set up on social networking sites or on separate blogging websites such as Xanga® and Blogger®.
200
A popular term for someone who accesses computer information either legally or illegally.
What is a hacker?
200
The part that stores and provides relatively quick access to large amounts of data on an electromagnetically charged surface or set of surfaces. Can contains several billion bytes (gigabytes)
What is a Hard Disk Drive?
200
An image or a portion of text that, when clicked, allows electronic connections. These connections access other Internet materials such as images, sounds, animations, videos, or other Web pages.
What is a Hyperlink?
300
Small picture that represents a program on your computer.
What is an icon?
300
Social media sites often call for users to share certain information, such as their real names, hobbies, and interests. Facebook® and MySpace® users create this when they join the sites.
What is a profile?
300
Negative behavior through Internet applications and technologies such as instant messaging (IM), social networking sites, and cell phones.
What is cyberbullying?
300
A central printed circuit board that holds many of the important parts of the system and provides connectors for other parts of the system.
What is a Motherboard?
300
A list of websites the people using a particular computer have visited.
What is the History?
400
A program that allows users to view Web pages. Mozilla® Foxfire and Microsoft® Internet Explorer are popular examples of these.
What is a Browser?
400
An online community where people from all over the world may meet and share common interests. These sites allow members to set up a profile, which may include information such as name, location, phone number, age, and gender. Often users will post pictures and videos.
What is Social Networking Site
400
Any program that allows many different users to share files, such as movie, music, and image files, directly with each other. There may be a risk of illegally downloading materials or downloading a computer virus.
What is a File-sharing program?
400
A highly complex silicon chip is your computer's brain, taking requests from applications and then processing, or executing, actions, a.k.a. operations.
What is a Central Processing Unit or CPU ?
400
Illegally copying copyrighted software, music, or movies.
What is Piracy?
500
Websites use these files to store information on your browser, such as log-in or registration identification, user preferences, and online "shopping-cart" information. Your browser saves the information and reuses it when you return to those websites. You can refuse to accept them or erase all of them saved on your browser.
What is Cookie?
500
A website developed collaboratively whose users can add, modify, or delete its content.
What is Wiki? ex: Wikipedia
500
Software which allows the screening of unwanted Internet content or blocks specific functions, such as e-mail or instant messages.
What is Filtering software?
500
A device attached to a host computer, but not part of it, and is more or less dependent on the host. It expands the host's capabilities, but does not form part of the core.
What is peripheral?
500
An online scam that uses e-mail to search for users' private information by imitating legitimate companies. Scammers copy legitimate websites and set up nearly identical pages. People are lured into sharing user names, passwords, account information, or credit card numbers.
What is Phishing?
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