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The World Wide Web
100
An interconnected network of thousands of networks and millions of computers linking businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and individuals.
What is the Internet?
100
Every computer connected to the Internet is assigned an address. The address is known as a(n) . . .
What is an 'IP Address'?
100
The protocol used by the client to retrieve mail from an Internet server.
What is 'POP3' or 'Post Office Protocol 3'?
100
This was the first commercial web browser.
What is 'Netscape Navigator'?
200
One of the internet's most popular services, providing access to over 50 billion web pages.
What is the "World Wide Web"?
200
An IP address can be represented by a natural language convention, also known as this.
What is a 'domain name'?
200
This program allows you to check the connection between your client and the server. It will tell you the time it takes for the server to respond, give you some idea about the speed of the server and the Internet at that moment.
What is 'ping' or 'Packet InterNet Groper'? TRY IT OUT!!
200
A way of formatting pages with embedded links that connect documents to one another, and link pages to objects such as video, sound, etc.
What is a 'hypertext'?
300
It was during this phase that the fundamental building blocks of the Internet were conceptualized and then realized in hardware and software.
What is the "Innovation Phase"?
300
Refers to a model of computing in which firms and individuals obtain computing power and software applications over the Internet.
What is 'Cloud Computing'?
300
This service is part of the TCP/IP protocol that permits users to transfer files from the server to their client computer and vise versa.
What is 'FTP' or 'File Transfer Protocol'?
300
An easy-to-use GML that provides webpage designers with a fixed set of mark-up tags that are used to format a webpage.
What is a 'HTML' or 'HyperText Markup Language'?
400
It is a method of slicing digital messages into discrete units and sending the "packets" along different communication paths as they become available, and reassembling the packets once they arrive at their destination
What is 'packet switching'?
400
The Internet protocol used to transfer web pages.
What is 'HTTP' or 'HyperText Transfer Protocol'?
400
This is one of several route-tracing utilities that allows you to follow the path of a message you send from your client to a remote computer on the Internet.
What is 'tracert'? TRY IT OUT!!
400
A markup language used to describe data and information.
What is 'XML' or 'eXtensible Markup Language'?
500
It has become the core communication protocol for the Internet.
What is TCP/IP or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol?
500
The Internet protocol used to send mail to a server.
What is 'SMTP' or 'Simple Mail Transfer Protocol'?
500
Measures how much data can be transferred over a communications medium within a fixed period of time; usually expressed in bits per second (bps), kilobits per second (Kbps), megabits per second (Mbps) or gigabits per second (Gbps).
What is 'bandwidth'?
500
A server designed to deliver targeted banner ads.
What is a 'ad server'?