Assignment 7
Internet Terminology and Concepts
1. Go to http://www.w3.org and find an answer to this question: What is the W3C World Wide Web Consortium. Find a simple explanation. Use your own words.
2. Find and write simple explanations for the following terms.
a. Cyberspace
b. download
c. upload
d. GIF
e. JPG
f. PNG
[Know what the initials for the above-mentioned formats stand for.]
g. login (as a noun and a verb)
h. mailing lists (listserv and majordomo)
i. newsgroups
What are they?
How are newsgroups different from mailing lists?
j. packet switching
k. router
l. cookie
m. IP address
n. Domain name
o. head or header of an HTML document
p. nesting
q. PDF document
r.
query
query box
s. bandwidth
t. database
u. network
v.
LAN
WAN
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