| Question | Answer |
| Hyper Text Mark-Up Language. The programming language of the WWW. | HTML
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Examples of Generic Top Level Domains2 | .com/.org/.net.gov.edu/.mil/ and new ones to come2
| Allows users to view the web and interact with web sites. Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Internet Explorer are examples3 | Browser3
| Uniform Resource Locator/Indicator. Web address or location of a web page on the WWW.4 | URL or URI4
| A device that connects multiple computers together and enables them to communicate with one another.5 | Hub5
| A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network, as between personal computers. The former sends messages asynchronously while the other sends it synchronously6 | email/IM6
| "What you see is what you get." A reference to when the screen displays what will actually be printed or will show up on a web page.7 | WYSIWYG7
| The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol.8 | WWW8
| An organization's unique name on the Internet. For example, Apple.com is a very famous example of one.9 | Domain Name9
| A text file coded in HTML, which may also contain JavaScript code or other plug-ins. A collection of web pages on the same topic is a web site.10 | Web Page10
| An electronic link providing direct access from one distinctively marked place in a hypertext or hypermedia document to another in the same or a different document.11 | Link or Hyperlink11
| Different types of malicious programs that can cause damage to your computer.12 | Virus/Worm12
| An auxiliary program that works with a program to enhance its capability. They are added to Web browsers to enable them to support new types of content (audio, video, etc.).13 | Plug-in13
| Digital Subscriber Line: A technology that dramatically increases the digital capacity of ordinary telephone lines (the local loops) into the home or office. Cable: instead of a telephone line, data is transmitted via cable.14 | DSL and Cable14
| The transfer of data from a remote computer to your own computer/the transfer of data from your computer to a remote computer.15 | Download/Upload15
| A unique address of a computer attached to a TCP/IP network. The identifying number that enables any computer on the Internet to find any other computer on the network.16 | IP Address16
| Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is a protocol used to transfer files from a Web server onto a browser in order to view a Web page that is on the Internet.17 | HTTP17
| The first is a computer network that spans a relatively small area. Usually confined to a single building or group of buildings. The second, a much larger network, connects two or more LANs. The largest of these is the Internet.18 | LAN/WAN18
| When a user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a LAN or WAN.19 | Client/Server19
| These types of networks focus on building online communities of people who share interests and/or activities.20 | Social Networks (e.g. Facebook)20
| The 3 image files used on web pages (that do not require a special plug-in to view)21 | .jpg, .gif, .png21
| A device that connects any number of LANs, which ultimately connect them to the Internet.22 | Router22
| An intelligent version of a hub. It can manage network traffic efficiently between other computers, printers, mobile devices and other parts of the network23 | Switch23
| A message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message and is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. The main purpose is to identify users and prepare customized Web pages for them.24 | Cookies24
| A type of high-speed network for interconnecting computing devices. Can be either 10 or 100 Mbps25 | Ethernet25
| A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it.It is also a Hawaiian word for "fast" or "quickly"26 | Wiki26
| The precursor to the Internet. Developed in the late 60's and early 70's by the US Department of Defense as an experiment in wide-area-networking to connect together computers that were each running different system so that people at one location could use computing resources from another location.27 | ARPAnet27
| A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term is relative as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non-backbone lines in a large network.28 | Backbone28
| How much data you can send through a network connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second (bps.)29 | Bandwidth29
| A journal that is available on the web or a web log.30 | Blog30
| Term originated by author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer31 | Cyberspace31
| A combination of hardware and software that separates a Network into two or more parts for security purposes.31 | Firewall31
| People who are seen to be knowledgeable, hip, or otherwise in-the-know in regardsto the digital revolution32 | Digerati32
| A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use.33 | Intranet33
| A programming language that is mostly used in web pages, usually to add features that make the web page more interactive.34 | Javascript34
| A specific kind of HTML tag that contains information not normally displayed to the user.Usually include information for search engines to help them better categorize a page.35 | Meta Tag35
| The etiquette on the Internet.36 | Netiquette36
| When 2 or more computers are connected together.37 | Network37
| The method used to move data around on the Internet. This allows all the data coming out of a machine to be broken up into chunks, and each chunk has the address of where it came from and where it is going.38 | Packet switching38
| To check if a server is running. From the sound that a sonar systems makes in movies, you know, when they are searching for a submarine.39 | Ping39
| A specification and various technologies used to allow making telephone calls over IP networks, especially the Internet.40 | VOIP40 |
