PROTOCOLS
ACRONYMS
HISTORY
URLs
ANYTHING GOES
100
What is the BASIC Internet Protocol that contains the specific information that allows computers to identify each other and exchange data on the Internet? HINT: 5 letters
What is TCP/IP ~ Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
100
What does W3C stand for?
What is the World Wide Web Consortium - Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the World Wide Web - is now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web's governing body!
100
Who created the first GUI Browser also known as (a.k.a.) the WorldWideWeb?
Who is Tim Berners-Lee in about 1990.
100
When you see this in the URL, what type of web site is this: www.ibm.com
What is a commercial web site
100
The type of business such as Verizon or Time Warner RR that allows its customers' computers to access the Internet through its own website or network is called what?
What is an ISP ~ Internet Service Provider.
200
When you upload and download files on the Internet, this protocol provides a standardized method of doing this. We will use this protocol when we upload our company web site to Go Daddy Web Hosting service. What is this protocol called? HINT: 3 letters
What is FTP or File Transfer Protocol
200
What does IP stand for?
What is Internet Protocol, as in IP Address...
200
Which came first, the WWW or the Internet?
What is the Internet in 1969. The WWW was developed around 1989.
200
Does the file name of a retrieved web page appear at the beginning or end of a URL?
200
What would you call this if you saw it? http://216.109.118.70/ Hint: Each computer has one.
What is an IP Address?
300
What is a set of rules and procedures that specify how data are formatted and transmitted between computer systems? Hint: starts with a p
What is the protocol
300
What does WAN stand for?
What is a Wide Area Network, a computer network that extends over a large geographical distance.
300
The general guidelines that have developed over the years for interacting over the Internet are called?
What is Netiquette
300
Every web page has a complete and unique address known as
What is a URL ~ Uniform Resource Locator
300
You can tell what kind of web site this is by looking at its domain name extension? e.g.) www.ecc.edu
What is an educational web site e.g.) .edu = educational site .org = nonprofit site .com = for profit company .gov = government
400
Which protocol do you see at the beginning of every URL when we key in a web address in our browser?
What is http://
400
What is a WYSIWYG?
What is software that is "What you see is what you get"! e.g.) Dreamweaver is an example of Web Site Development Application that is a WYSIWYG
400
In 1969 the U.S. DoD (Department of Defense) developed a network called what?
What is ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet.
400
There are four parts to a Web site's URL address. Put these parts in the correct order from left to right:

Wrong order:
retrieved file/address/protocol/directory path
Right order is?

What is protocol://address/directory path/retrieved file
e.g.) http://www.buffaloschools.org/webpages/pwojtowicz
400
What are the three Boolean search operators you can use when performing a search online?
What is AND (+) , OR, NOT (-) If you want, you can use the symbols instead of the words AND and NOT. e.g.) squash+vegetable (+ = and) squash-game (- = not)
500
True or False? The Web uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol to transfer files from a Web Server to a Web Browser. It also interprets hyperlinks and jumps to the specified location.
What is TRUE!
500
What is a LAN
What is a Local Area Network.. allows users to share information within an organization while protecting this information from outsiders.
500
The URL www.JoesHouse.gov would identify what kind of site?
What is a government web site?
500
In this URL, identify the domain name: http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/about/history.html
What is mcgraw-hill.com (It includes the .com) A domain name includes the domain extension of .com. (See p.72)
500
BING, Google, Ask Jeeves, are all referred to as what?
What are Search Engines
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