Chapter 4

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t/f. 3G, 4G, and LTE are all terms that refer to mobile Internet connectivity.

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t/f. Although a MOOC allows any individual to register for online classes at Harvard and MIT, their high registration cost has limited their popularity.

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t/f. DSL technology is currently faster than cable or fiber-optics.

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t/f. Search engines continuously index, or crawl, the Web's contents, finding new sites and revisiting existing ones in order to update their database of sites.

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t/f. The "sports" in the address sports.yahoo.com refers to the subdomain.

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t/f. The HTTPS protocol in a URL indicates that the web page has been completed, sent, or loaded.

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t/f. The ability for UPS's website to remember your country/language selection is the result of its use of third-party cookies.

domain name

A _________, such as apple.com and whitehouse.gov, uniquely identifies a site and a brand on the Web.

hotspot

A mobile _________ refers to a device that can connect to a mobile network and offer Internet access to multiple devices near it.

blog

A(n) _________ is a web page or small website that contains a series of chronological posts and comments.

bcc

Any email address placed in the _________ will be invisible to the recipients of your message.

protocols

Computers that communicate over a network must follow certain _________ to ensure that the transmission is sent properly and understood.

viral

Funny or fascinating web content is said to go _________ when it is shared and re-shared a large number of times over a short period.

pay per click

In the model known as _________, advertisers pay for their ads only when a website visitor clicks on the ad.

LMS

Students often use a(n) _________, such as Blackboard, at school to complete exams, turn in work, and communicate with their instructor and classmates.

HTML

The _________ language, which was used in the first web page ever created, is still in use today.

HTTP

The _________ protocol is used to deliver requested web pages to a computer.

backbone

The connections that carry most of the Internet's traffic are referred to as:

TCP/IP

The protocols that are at the heart of Internet communication are known as:

ARPANET

The seeds of the Internet were planted in 1969 with _________, which connected computers at four universities in the western United States.

Plagiarism

Turning in the work of another as if it were your own or failing to cite the source of your work in known as:

hyperlinks

You will often find _________ on a web document that, when clicked, act as connectors to another document on the World Wide Web.

cookies

_________ are small data files that are created by websites in order to remember users and their preferences the next time they visit the site.

Wikipedia

_________ is not always considered to be a reliable site because you cannot be certain that the information you are reading comes from a credible source.

VoIP

_________, which can connect to the telephone network, translates analog voice signals into digital data and uses the Internet to transport the data.