Intro to Computers - Technology Chp 4
A page or website that contains chronological posts and comments from individuals or organizations is known as a(n):
Blog
___ are discussion boards where individuals can ask questions and reply to each other.
Forums
As the largest ___ in the world, the internet connects billions of people and organizations.
Network
Which browser feature allows you to have a multiple web pages open in one browser window?
Tabbed browsing
Which microblogging service famously restricts posts to 140 characters?
A(n) ___ is another name for the full address that is used to locate a web page on the internet
URL
Although many articles in ___ are written and edited by experts, you cannot be 100 percent certain that the specific information you need comes from a credible source.
Wikipedia
Communication speeds between you and your ISP are measured in:
bps
___ websites, such as kickstarter, allow any organization or individual to solicit funds from the general public in exchange for a future good or service.
Crowdfunding
Which of the following connection types is generally the SLOWEST?
Dial-up
which part of a URL uniquely identifies a site and a brand on the web?
Domain name
Your browser's ___ keeps the name and URL of every site you have visited, and allows browsers to autocomplete the URL type the first few characters.
History
If your smartphone is st up as a mobile ___, it can offer Wi-Fi access to devices near it.
Hotspot
Unlike an email, which can be read by the recipient at any time, ___ engage individuals in a live conversations.
Instant messengers
___ file sharing uses a distributed network of individual users instead of central server to transfer files
P2P
___ is a model whereby advertisers pay for they ads only when a website visitor clicks on the ad.
Pay-per-click
A browser ___ is a separate program that allows your web browser to play several types of multimedia content.
Plug-in
___ translates analog voice signals into digital data and uses the internet to transport the data.
VoIP
A(n) ___ is a collaborative information site that encourages people with subject knowledge to contribute at their convenience, adding to or fixing pages where information is missing or incorrect
Wiki
Which of the following is NOT a web browser?
Yahoo
It is common to use ___ when sending email to a large group of people, especially if you want to protect the privacy of the recipients' email address
bcc
The ___ part of an email contains any file(s) included with the message
Attachments
The small data files known as ___ are used by websites to remember users and their preferences.
Cookies
Which symbol, which is used to mark keywords or topics in a message, was popularized by Twitter?
Hashtag
A(n) ___ is a huge online course offered for free by variety of universities, including prestigious ones such as Princeton, Harvard, and MIT.
MOOC
___ is a social news site that encourages users to share links to news and other interesting content they find on the web. It is also famous for hosting AMA sessions.
Many trace the Internet's history to ___, a network connecting computers at four universities in 1969
ARPANET
The Internet is ___, meaning no single group or person controls it.
Decentralized
192.168.1.101 is an example of a(n):
IP address
___ is a social network that is designed with a strictly business-oriented focus.
Which streaming service often accounts for over 30 percent of all Internet traffic in North America?
Nextflix
___ is an example of an online payment that allows you to pay for goods online and transfer money to other individuals.
PayPal
One of its most powerful feature of Google Maps is ___< which shows you almost any part of the map as if you were driving through that street.
Street View
Which of the following is a global system of linked, hypertext documents?
World Wide Web
When users type specific keywords into a ___, they will receive an organized list of matching sites, images, and news articles that contain those keywords.
Search Engine