Provides a high-speed Internet connection through the cable television network.
What is a cable modem?
100
Type of Web site that is used to convince the reader of the validity of a cause, opinion, or idea.
What is an advocacy website?
100
A group of e-mail names and addresses given a single name.
What is a mailing list?
100
A widely used service on the Internet that consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents.
What is the World Wide Web?
100
An e-commerce activity at which users bid on an item begin sold by someone else.
What is an online auction?
200
The text version of an IP address.
What is a domain name?
200
What an online business uses to display product descriptions, graphics, and a shopping cart.
What is an electronic storefront?
200
A location on the Internet server that permits users to have real-time, typed conversations with each other.
What is a chat room?
200
The unique address of a web page.
What is the URL?
200
A combination of a user name and domain name that identifies a user so he or she can receive Internet e-mail.
What is an e-mail address?
300
This phrase refers to the activity of using links to explore the Web.
What is surfing the Web?
300
Allows a customer at an electronic storefront to collect purchases.
What is a shopping cart?
300
A real-time Internet communications service that notifies you when one or more people are online and then allows you to exchange messages or files or join a private chat room with them.
What is Instant messaging?
300
A built in connection to another Web page or part of a Web page.
What is a hyperlink?
300
The code of acceptable behavior users should follow while on the Internet.
What is netiquette?
400
A program that finds Web sites and Web pages.
What is a search engine?
400
The transmission of messages and files via a computer network and is often the primary communications method for both personal and business use.
What is an E-mail?
400
A worldwide collection of networks that links millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals.
What is the Internet?
400
The process of transferring data in a continuous and even flow.
What is streaming?
400
Symbols such as :) and :( used to express emotion.
What are emoticons?
500
A type of Web site that contains content that promotes and sells products or services.
What is a business/marketing Web site?
500
A unique combination of characters, such as letters of the alphabet and/or numbers that identifies a specific user in an email address.
What is an user name?
500
A business that provides individuals and companies access to the Internet for free or for a fee.
What is an access provider?
500
A business transaction that occurs over an electronic network such as the Internet.
What is e-commerce?
500
A popular type of discussion group that does not require a newsreader.