Kinds of Devices
Computing devices that are used to take in information from the user or another device
Input Devices
Percentage of the world population that access the internet (2021)
60%
Identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
Domain
A network of networks that connects computers all over the world
Internet
IP
Internet Protocol
The capacity of data transfer in a network, measured by bitrate
Bandwidth
Computing devices that are used to send computer data to the user
Output devices
The process of making computations by using the computer power of many different computers in a network
Distributed computing
a way to divide your site into sections with short and easy to remember names
sub domian
A widely agreed set of rules that standarizes communications between machines
Protocol
IP v6
Internet protocol version 6
Time it takes for a bit to travel from one computer to another within a network
Latency
Computing devices that remember information
Storage devices
Agency where the internet protocols are designed and implemented
Internet Engineering task force
Terms referring to all the suffixes on the end of the domain name proper: .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .US, etc.
Top-level domain
A device that "listens" to request of other computers in the network and establishes a connection with them.
server
URL
Uniform resource locator
Type of cable used to transmit data as light pulses
Fiber optic
Computing devices that are used for communication between computers
Network devices
A unique number which identifies a computer and its location on the internet
IP address
1st step to host a website
Register a domain
A central device that directs communications between computers in a small network
Router
DNS
Domain name system
A central computer on the Internet that stores information about all the registered domain names
Root Server
The part of a smarphone that can be considered both input and output
touch screen
a company that offers its customers access to the Internet
ISP
the part of a URL that comes after the domain and "/"
path
a hardware or software device between a computer and the rest of the network open to attackers or hackers.
Firewall
GPS
Global Positioning System
The quantity that is measured in bits/second
bitrate
Is a flash drive (a.k.a. memory stick) an input device, output device, or both?
both
The 3 physical methods to transmit data from one computer to another
Electricity, light and Radio waves
The set of all webpages accessible through the internet
World Wide Web
the ability of a system (computer, network, cloud cluster, etc.) to continue operating without interruption when one or more of its components fail.
fault tolerance
HTTP
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
The document that is rendered in a browser when the URL is typed without a path
homepage