Internet and World Wide Web

Intranet

A network based on TCP/IP protocols (an internet) belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization. A private network accessible only to an org's staff. Ex: Thomas Jefferson HS

Web bots

An internet bot computer program whose developers claim is able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the internet. It was developed in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends. They run automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet. Typically, they perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone.

Web browsing protocols

The following are: HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTPS: Hypertext Transfer Protocol within a connection encrypted by Transport Layer Security or Secure Sockets Layer FTP: File Transfer Protocol

Web Development: Functionality & Accessibility

The process in which they will test things such as the complete functionality of forms or other scripts, as well last testing for last minute compatibility issues (viewing differences between different web browsers), ensuring that your web site is optimized to be viewed properly in the most recent browser versions.

Web Development: Design

The process of creating color layouts based on approved 'wireframe' layouts, Shoot photography or research stock photography, developing graphics, and create style guide of colors and fonts for site development

Web development: Analysis

The process of gathering and comparing information about the web and its operation and use in order to improve the web's overall quality and to identify problem areas (in Web Development).

Web browsing standards

These are rules and guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) developed to promote consistency in the design code which makes up a web page.

Web history

This is a list of web pages a user has visited recently—and associated data such as page title and time of visit—which is recorded by web browser software as standard for a certain period of time.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) that is a pointer to a "resource" on the World Wide Web. AKA: Web address

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

____ is the language for describing structured documents as well as the language used to create web pages in the Internet. This language was created to focus of displaying information. Tags are predefined.

Push/Pull Technology

_____ is the request for a given transaction initiated by the publisher or central server. _____ is the request for the transmission of information is initiated by the receiver or client.

Javascript

_______ is a high-level programming language of HTML and the Web.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

_________ is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Cookies

a mechanism that allows the server to store its own information about a user on the user's own computer. This information is stored in a message and then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Internet Protocol (IP)

a set of rules governing the format of data sent over the Internet or other network.

World Wide Web

an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. It was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN in Switzerland.

Communications

integration of real-time, enterprise, communication services such as instant messaging (chat), presence information, voice (including IP telephony), mobility features (including extension mobility and single number reach), audio, web & video conferencing, fixed-mobile convergence (FMC), desktop sharing, data sharing (including web connected electronic interactive whiteboards), call control and speech recognition with non-real-time communication services such as unified messaging (integrated voicemail, e-mail, SMS and fax).

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. This language was created to focus on describing information. Tags are not predefined.

Web search engines

software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

Cloud computing

the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.