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Technology In Action

Subjects : it-skills, literacy
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1. Anything that involves one or more forms of media plus text.






2. A location on the Web.






3. Software installed on a computer system that allows individuals to locate - view - and navigate the Web.






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






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






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






7. The 's' at the end of https






8. Plays animation and movies through Web browsers






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






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






13. Means by which people use the Internet to communicate and share information and meet and connect with others of common interest






14. E-mail communications are private. True or False.






15. A gaming environment in which thousands of participants interact in a virtual game world by assuming roles of fictitious characters.






16. E-commerce transactions between consumers through online sites such as eBay.com.






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






18. The average speed of DSL is __________ Mbps.






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






20. 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.






21. A computer that hosts the Web site that is being requested






22. A popular open source browser software






23. The three parts of a search engine?






24. A method of communication - similar to a discussion group or forum - in which people create threads - or conversations. In a thread - a newsgroup member will post messages and read and reply to messages from other members of the newsgroup.






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. An XML-based format that allows frequent updates of content on the World Wide Web.






31. A type of connection that uses telephone lines to connect to the Internet and that allows both phone and data transmissions to share the same line.






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






33. _________ broadband is primarily used in rural or mountain areas where other broadband service is unavailable.






34. It can actually be safer to use your credit card online than in a traditional retail store because it eliminates the human factor from the equation. True or False






35. An expansion card that enables a computer to connect other computers or to a cable modem to facilitate a high-speed Internet connection.






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






37. A list that shows the hierarchy of previously viewed Web pages within the Web site that you are currently visiting. Shown at the top of some Web pages - it aids Web site navigation.






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






39. A program that enables users to communicate online in real time with others who are also online.






40. A small software program that 'plugs in' to a Web browser to enable a specific function






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






42. A _____________ is a list of pages within a Web site that have been visited.






43. A network - consisting of client and server computers - in which the clients make requests of the server and the server returns the response.






44. The first 'internet' was a U.S. government-funded 'internet working' project named __________.






45. (1) A specific word a user wishes to query (or look for) in an Internet search. (2) A specific word that has a predefined meaning in a particular programming language.






46. A computer running a specialized operating system that enables it to host Web pages (and other information) and provide requested Web pages to clients.






47. 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.)






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






49. The main pathway used by data traffic on the Internet






50. Top-level domain is reserved for the military







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