TIA Chapter 3

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E-mail

Remains the most widely used form of communication on the Internet. Fast and convenient. It is asynchronous so users do not need to be on the computer at the same time

Tagging (Social Bookmarking)

Saves your favorite website to a social bookmarking site so that you can share it with others

Metasearch Engines

Search other search engines rather than individual websites

Guidelines to make online shopping safer:

1) Look for "https://" 2) Shop at well-known, reputable sites 3) Pay with credit card 4) Check the return policy, save a copy of the order and confirmation number 5) Avoid online transactions when using public computers

Several parts of an URL

1) Protocol-set of rules- used to retrieve document 2) Domain name 3) Path or subdirectory

Live bookmark

A feature in Firefox that adds the technology of RSS feeds to bookmarking

Internet

A network of networks connecting billions of computers globally

A Wiki

A web application that allows users to add, remove, or edit its content

Bookmarks

Allows you to return to a specific webpage without having to remember that address

Links

Are the links available and appropriate?

Client

Asks for data

Before using an Internet source, consider:

Authority, Bias, Relevance, Audience, Links

Video Log

Blog that uses video as the primary content

E-commerce

Electronic Commerce; the process of conducting business online

Audience

For what audience is the site intended?

Podcast

Form of digital media composed of a series of audio or video files that are distributed over the internet

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

How podcasts deliver their content. A format that send the latest content of the podcast series automatically to an aggregator

Domain name

Identifies the site's host, the location that maintains the computers that store the website files. The suffix after the dot is called the top-level domain

Multimedia

Involved one or more forms of media in addition to text: Graphics, Audio, Video

Relevance

Is the information in the site current?

Bias

Is the site biased?

Instant Messaging

Let people communicate in real time over the internet. (AIM, Google Chat)

Aggregator

Locates all the RSS series to which you have subscribed and automatically downloads the new content

Streaming Media

Multimedia that is continuously fed to your browser so you avoid having to wait for the entire file to download completely before listening or watching it

Blog

Personal log posted on the Web. Public and have searchable and organized content

Server

Receives requests and returns data to clients

Search Engine

Set of programs that searches for keywords and returns a list of the sites on which those keywords are found

History List

Shows all the websites and pages you've visited over a certain period of time

Browser

Software that lets you locate, view, and navigate the web

Subject Directory

Structured outline of websites organized by topics and subtopics

Graphical browsers display:

Text, pictures, sound, video

Webcast

The broadcast of audio or video over the interet

Web 2.0

The new collaborative, user-created web content. An example is Wikipedia

Internet Backbones

Transmission lines with the fastest speeds

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

Social Networking

Using the web to communicate and share information

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

What the modern internet evolved from. It was US government-funded project

Internet Protocol (IP) Address

What your computer is assigned when it connects to the internet. It is a set of 4 numbers separated by periods, referred to as a doted quad or dotted decimal

Authority

Who is the author of the article or the sponsor of the site?


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