Internet
What is the Internet?
The large group of billions of computers around the world that are all connected to one another.
What is the World Wide Web?
A worldwide collection of electronic data.
What is a Web Browser?
An application designed for locating Websites and displaying it's contents.
These are links to websites that make it easy to get back to websites that you frequently visit.
Favorites or Bookmarks
The specific data-transmission rules for accessing the resource on the Web. http:// or https://
Protocol
Who owns and controls the Internet?
Nobody
What is the World Wide Web made of?
Electronic data
Text, graphics, animation, audio, and video files
Hypertext, hypermedia, hyperlinks
List 3 parts of a Web Browser
Back button, forward button, address bar, refresh, tabs
A tool used to quickly search for a keyword or phrase on a specific web page.
Find Tool
A type of computer which hosts Web pages that are then accessed by clients.
Web server
What is the Internet made of?
The equipment that makes the exchange of information possible OR wires, cables and devices
He invented the World Wide Web.
Tim Berners Lee
This is the page loaded each time you start the browser and you can set it to whatever it you want using the “Internet Options” tool in the “Control Panel” .
Browser Homepage
The address of a particular Web page.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
In the evolution of the Web, this is the stage where the focus is on personalizing everything and providing intelligent service to users.
Web 3.0 Or The Semantic Web
Who invented the Internet?
The U.S. Defense Department OR Military
List 4 Web Services
Buy and sell (e-commerce), Create, Communicate, Demonstrate, Entertain, Evaluate and Analyze, Remember, Share, Understand and Learn
List 3 types of web browsers
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera
This groups web pages under headings like: Business, Sports, and News.
Subject Guide
When evaluating website reliablitiy, what are 4 things your should look for?
Currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, purpose
What was ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency)?
ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet
OR
A military network that eventually became what we know as the Internet
This is a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.
World Wide Web Consortium OR W3C
List 3 software components that add specific features to a browser and enable it to do more.
Plug-ins, Add-ons, and Extensions
List the 2 types of search engines
Subject search engine
Site specific search engine
List 3 standard domain names
.com .org .net .int .edu .gov .mil