The engineer who developed the URL addressing scheme and the HTML computer language to write web pages in 1989 in Switzerland. Known as the the creator of the World Wide Web?
Who is Tim Berners-Lee.
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Which part of the following URL identifies "the actual Web document (filename)"?
e.g.) http://www.disney.com/101.htm
What is 101.htm.
100
The transmission of messages over communication networks. The messages can be notes entered from the keyboard or files stored on disk. Most mainframes, minicomputers and computer networks have this system.
eg) BSmith @gmail.com
What is this called?
This is a numerical label assigned to each device. It is basically a phone number for your computer or wireless device. It serves two principal functions; host or network interface identification and location addressing.
What is Internet Protocol address (IP address)
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A virtual network of websites connected by hyperlinks. Websites are stored on servers on the Internet so this is part of the Internet.
This is a unique name that identifies a WEB SITE. This is used to identify one or more IP Addressess. For example, microsoft com represents about a dozen IP Addresses.
HINT: Begins with a D
What is domain name
200
What does HTTP stand for?
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol: for every computer client to be able to understand transmitted data, it must use HTTP.
200
The Save as Single File Web Page command in Microsoft Word enables you to convert an ordinary word document to what kind of a DOCUMENT FILE TYPE?
What is an MHTML file. (IT is no longer a .docx word doc.)
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A group of two or more computer systems linked together. Examples include Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Hint: N
You pay Verizon or Time Warner to have internet service. What is the technical name for this?
HINT: A 3 letter acronym is acceptable for this answer.
What is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)
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HTML means what?
What is Hyper Text Markup Language,
The backbone of the World Wide Web is made up of these files, which are specifically formatted documents that contain links, images, and other media. All Web Browsers can read these files. This is the language of the web that Tim Berner's Lee wrote in 1989.
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Give an example of a SEARCH ENGINE (not a web browser)?
What is GOOGLE, Yahoo! Bing, ASK, Alta VISTA, EXCITE, and others
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What approximate year did the INTERNET begin in?
What is began in 1969 as the US Department of Defense (DoD) craeted ARPAnet Advanced Research Projects Agency , a project to allow military personnel to communicate with each other in an emergency.
You would call Internet Explorer and Google Chrome what?
What are Web Browsers.
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What does AUP stand for? HINT: You probably signed this at the beginning of the school year in our computer lab. It regulates behavior on school computers....
What is "Acceptable Use Policy" with regards to using the school computers or work computers...
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This typically consists of two or more LANS. The computers are father apart and are linked by telephone lines, dedicated telephone lines or radio waves.
What is Wide Area Network (WAN)
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What approximate year did the World Wide Web (WWW) begin?
What is: Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as a software engineer in Switzerland. He also wrote the first Web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb”) and the first Web server (“httpd“). By the end of 1990, the first Web page was served.
500
What does U R L stand for?
What is Uniform Resource Locator -- the global (complete web address.) You see this at the top of the page when you go to any Web site in Google Chrome Browser.
500
This method of symbolic logic was developed by a 19th century English Mathematician. When doing a search this method allows you to combine words using the operators AND, OR, NOT to limit and broaden or define your search on the web. What is this called.? HINT: B
What is a Boolean search
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What does SFWP stand for?
What is Single File Web Page. This file format is no longer a Word document .docx, but changes the document to a .MHTML file that is viewable in a Web Browser such as Internet Explorer.
500
In a network, the individual computers that are a part of that network are called?