The Internet

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Marc Andreessen released the first graphical browser called Mosaic in ____. This increased the popularity of the internet significantly.

1993

_______ is a programming interface developed by Microsoft for Windows. This set of rules controls Windows programs that are downloaded from the Internet and then run in a Browser.

ActiveX

What is the bar at the top of the page called?

Address Bar

Pop up ads are designed by ___________ who have advertisements pop up in the middle of a page to draw your attention to their product or services.

Advertisers

A Wiki is usually a web ___________ which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others.

Application

What is this <-----

Back buttion

Pop up ________ are available in browsers that can decrease or eliminate pop ups.

Blockers

You can change how your _______ handles cookies by adjusting your settings/preferences.

Browser

The Internet is not a ______ cloud.

Bubble

Three well-known browsers are: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Forefox and Google ______

Chrome

Your computer at home or at school is called a ______

Client

Some common ISP's are (list four): MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Century Link, _______

Comcast

ISP stands for Internet Service Provider and is a service company that provides users with an account on a host ________

Computer

The Internet is: a. The world's largest ________ Network. b. A collection of local, regional and National computer ________

Computer, networks

Digital Literacy is a term used to describe the ability to find, understand, organize, and analyze information using a ____________ device.

Computerized

A ______ is a small text file that Web sites put on your computer to store information about you and your preferences.

Cookie

When a Web service Auto fills information about you into a form, it is using _______ stored on your computer.

Cookies

Favorites/bookmarks can be set to go ________ to a commonly visited Web site.

Directly

43. The second part, for example: www.davis.k12.ut is called the ______ ____

Domain Name

Web pages are deleted and moved often, sometimes you will receive an _____ like "Page Not found".

Error

The Internet is linked together with other Networks to ________ data and distribute processing tasks.

Exchange

The fourth and last part, for example: whatsnew.html is called the ________.

File name

There are ____ parts to an address.

Four

In 1990, Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), developed ____ which became the language computers use to transmit hypertext Documents over the Internet.

HTML

He later designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the internet called ____

HTTP

____ is the language computers use to transmit Hypertext documents over the Internet.

HTTP

Recent _______ is a feature in a browser that tracks the web sites that have been visited recently.

History

If you connect to a Web Page it is called a ___

Hit

You can Choose the page you want to be your ____ page. A browser's setting/properties is a common place to define your Home page.

Home

Your _____ page is the page that opens up in your browser when you launch the program.

Home

What is the buttion the goes to the home page called?

Home Buttion

Clicking linked text or images in a ___________ document Transfers you from one Web page to another or to another part of the same Web page.

Hyperlinked

Each computerized device has a unique address called an __ Address.

IP

To connect to the Internet you need an ___

ISP

A Video hosting service allows ___________to upload video content to share, distribute or place on a website.

Individuals

Computers break Information into smaller pieces called packets to send across the ________

Internet

Computers, networks, routers, modems, etc. make up one large Network called the ________.

Internet

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup ________

Language

In 2004, the phrase Web 2.0 became popular referring to the ability for users to _______ the content of Web pages.

Modify

1. Is the Internet and the Web the same thing?

Nope

A Web site may be temporarily unavailable if the server is _______ or if the site is being updated.

Offline

If you can use ______ tools effectively to communicate, collaborate and work efficiently, you are digitally literate.

Online

That is the + buttion at the top of the screen called ?

Open a new tab

Information travels across the internet in _______

Packets

The third part, for example: default/ is called the ________.

Pathname

Some Web sites use cookies to Track your Web use and many consider it an invasion of ________

Privacy

42. The first part, for example: http:// is called the ________

Protocol

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer ________

Protocol

What is the circle arrow called

Refresh buttion

A ______ directs packets around the Internet.

Router

A ______ is a special computer connected to the Internet where web pages are stored.

Server

Web 2.0 includes Web based ________ such as blogs, social networking sites, wikis, video sharing, etc.

Services

You are Surfing the Internet when you are clicking on links and going back and forth to explore various _____

Sites

HTTP is the transmission ________ used to send an HTML document across the WWW.

Standard

A ________ Page has a Home page, it is the first page you see when you visit the site.

Starting

Before 1993 the internet was ____ based.

Text

Web pages may load slowly due to high _______or if the page contains large images.

Traffic

There are Web sites that provide Information about job openings and career opportunities as well as ______, articles and resources for developing the Skills needed for obtaining employment.

Videos

A Home Page outlines information about a certain subject and contains Links to other pages or sites on the ___

WWW

A browser is software which allows you to view information on the ___

WWW

The World Wide Web or ___ for short is the collection of billions of websites that can be accessed over the Internet.

Web

The Internet is simply a ____

Wire

_______ is a popular video Hosting service.

Youtube


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