Internet
The worldwide system of interconnected computers and public networks.
What is The Internet?
A computer program that makes it so people, hardware, and software can interface with each other in a meaningful way.
What is Operating System?
The most important part of any modern computer system that controls the other parts of the computer.
What is Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
The smallest container within a computer's storage system that is used to store information such as data, settings, and commands used in a computer program. The smallest container that can be copied, deleted, or moved within a file system.
What is a File?
"Merry Christmas you filthy animal!"
Kevin McCallister, "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York"
Digital content that is delivered over the Internet, usually through a _____ browser.
What is Web?
An operating system interface that allows a user to interact with the computer by displaying text on a screen and accepting input from the keyboard. The input is entered as commands. Used primarily by IT and other tech professionals.
What is Command Line Interface?
Heat sinks and fans that keep computer components, especially the CPU, from overheating.
What is Cooling System?
A popular type of computer system that can be equipped with peripheral devices such as a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers.
What is a Desktop?
"Happy Birthday!"
Frosty the Snowman, "Frosty the Snowman"
A numerical label that is assigned to devices so they can connect and communicate on a network.
What is IP Address?
An operating system interface that allows a user to interact with the computer by displaying pictures, icons, and other images on a screen to represent files, folders, and system controls and by accepting input from a mouse or a touch screen.
What is a Graphical User Interface?
The main memory of a computer that can be quickly accessed by the CPU and where the computer stores data and instructions that it is actively using.
What is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
The act of taking someone else's work and passing it off as one's own.
What is Plagiarism?
"Sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
The Conductor, "The Polar Express"
A computing concept that describes the network of physical devices and everyday devices (including refrigerators, thermostats, streetlights, and environmental tracking systems) that communicate with the internet.
What is Internet of Things (IoT)?
Software that allows an operating system to communicate with hardware devices, such as printers, video cards, scanners, and cameras.
What are Device Drivers?
An additional computer processor that provides graphics processing, providing better performance by relieving the CPU of this duty.
What is Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)?
The way in the content of a file is organized. Often, a file type is indicated by the file extension such as .jpg, .gif, .png., .mp3, .wav, .wma, .mp4, .avi, and .wmv.
What is a File Format?
"6:30, dinner with me, can't cancel that again. 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing... I'm booked!"
The Grinch, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", 2000.
The use of remote services hosted on the internet to store, manage, and process data.
What is Cloud Computing?
A program used by Windows to provide information about how a computer is performing and which processes and services are running at any given time.
What is Task Manager?
The most common type of long-term storage that uses thick magnetic disks encased in a protective housing to store data.
What is Hard Disk Drive (HDD)?
A connector used to connect a computer to a wired network.
What is Registered Jack 45 (RJ-45) Connector?
"Bumbles bounce!"
Yukon Cornelius, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"