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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. A means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information among their immediate friends - and meet and connect with others through common interests - experiences - and friends.






2. Top-level domain is reserved for the military






3. Devices that fit either into a USB port or a special slot on the side of a notebook.






4. A protocol used to upload and download files from one computer to another over the Internet.






5. A part of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Domain names consist of two parts: the site's host and a suffix that indicates the type of organization. (Example: popsci.com)






6. A means of synchronous group communication used in discussion forums.






7. An online game in which play occurs among hundreds or thousands of other players over the Internet in a persistent or ever-on game environment. In some games - players can interact with other players through trading - chatting - or playing cooperativ






8. Seeing the VeriSign seal is a guarantee that a Web site is secure. True or False






9. Software that enables a user to display and interact with text and other media on the Web






10. A weblog is a personal log or journal posted on the web.






11. Measurement of how fast data travels between computers






12. A set of programs that searches the Web for specific words (or keywords) you wish to query (or look for) and then returns a list of the Web sites on which those keywords are found.






13. A feature in some browsers that places a marker of a Web site's Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in an easily retrievable list. (Bookmarks are called Favorites in Microsoft Internet Explorer.)






14. The broadcast of audio or video content over the Internet. Unlike a podcast - a webcast is not updated automatically.






15. E-commerce transactions between businesses and consumers.






16. A clip of audio or video content that is broadcast over the Internet using compressed audio and video files such as MP3s and MP4s






17. The maximum speed at which data can be transmitted between two nodes on a network; usually measured in megabits per second (Mbps).






18. Which of the following is NOT an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client application? Trillion Pidgin Facebook XChat






19. A network of networks that is the largest network in the world - connecting millions of computers from more than one hundred countries.






20. A connection to the Internet using a standard telephone line.






21. The portion of a domain name that identifies who maintains a given Web site. For example - berkeley.edu is the domain name for the University of California at Berkeley - which maintains that site.






22. The process of conducting business online for purposes ranging from fund-raising to advertising to selling products.






23. Technology that enables video files to be fed to a browser continuously. This lets users avoid having to download the entire file before viewing.






24. Technology that enables audio files to be fed to a browser continuously. This lets users avoid having to download an entire file before listening.






25. A bookmark that delivers updates to you as soon as they become available - using Really Simple Syndication (RSS).






26. An area on the Web where people come together to communicate online. The conversations are in real time and are visible to everyone in the chat room.






27. An online game in which play occurs among hundreds or thousands of other players over the Internet in a persistent or ever-on game environment. In some games - players can interact with other players through trading - chatting - or playing cooperativ






28. Also known as tagging






29. Most browsers now offer tabbed browsing - which allows for convenient navigation.






30. The information after the slash indicates a particular file or path (or subdirectory) within the Web site.






31. The suffix - often of three letters - in the domain name (such as .com or .edu) that indicates the kind of organization the host is.






32. The protocol that allows files to be transferred from a Web server so that you can see them on your computer by using a browser.






33. A Web site's unique address; an example is microsoft.com.






34. A broadband connection has a transmission speed of __________.






35. A software program that goes out and grabs the latest update of Web material (usually podcasts) according to your specifications.






36. The three parts of a search engine?






37. A word used to refine logical searches. For Internet searches - the words AND - NOT - and OR describe the relationships between keywords in the search.






38. The main pathway of high-speed communications lines over which all Internet traffic flows.






39. A structured outline of Web sites organized by topics and subtopics.






40. A program created by the U.S. government - the objective of which is to fund the research and development of cutting-edge networking technologies. Major goals of the program are the development of enhanced wireless technologies and increased network






41. E-commerce transactions between businesses.






42. Is a wildcard or placeholder feature that is helpful when you need to search with unknown terms.






43. A device that enables users to have wireless Internet access with mobile devices such as PDAs and notebooks.






44. A popular open source browser software






45. A metasearch engine - such as Dogpile - searches other search engines rather than individual Web sites.






46. A device that converts (modulates) the digital signals the computer understands to analog signals that can travel over phone lines. The computer on the other end also must have a modem to translate (demodulate) the received analog signal back to a di






47. A protocol for sending data between computers on the Internet.






48. The main or opening page of a Web site.






49. A keyword or term that Internet users assign to a Web resource such as a Web page - digital image - or video.






50. A plug-in that views and prints Portable Document Format files is __________.







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