Terms
1. What is the W3C World Wide Web Consortium. Find a simple explanation. Use your own words.
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is an industry organization, made up of about 400-member organizations (worldwide), in order to provide the most upgraded web experience with the leading technology. This is done, by utilizing the full potential of the Internet access. The W3C results in supplying various information and communication and in depth understanding, by producing technologies like specifications and reference software that are used together to approach the web to work.
a. Cyberspace - a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
b. download - transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location
c. upload - transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location
d. GIF - Graphics Interchange Format. A format used for displaying bitmap images on World Wide Web pages, usually called a "gif" because .gif is the filename extension. These files use lossless compression and can have 256 colors. This is the standard format that graphics need to be saved in in order for the browser to recognize it.
e. JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG is designed for compressing either full-color or gray-scale images
of natural, real-world scenes.
f. PNG - Portable Network Graphics, and pronounced ping, a new bit-mapped graphics format much like the gif.
[Know what the initials for the above-mentioned formats stand for.]
g. login (as a noun and a verb) (n.) The account name used to gain access to a computer system.
(v.) the act of connecting to a computer system by giving a username and password.
h. mailing lists - (listserv and majordomo) An automated system that allows one person to send out mass e-mail to all of the subscribers on a mailing list.A
i. newsgroups - discussion groups on USENET.
1) What is USENET? - A world-wide system of discussion groups, with sharded information between many machines.
2) How is USENET different from our class Discussion Board?
j. packet switching - The method of moving chunks of data around on the Internet.
k. router - a device that forwards data packets between computer networks
l. cookie - a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
m. IP address - the numerical address of a computer on the Internet by their Internet Service Provider
n. Domain name - strings of letters used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet
o. head or header of an HTML document - contains information about the current document, such as its title, keywords that may be useful to search engines, and other data that is not considered document content
p. nesting - embedding one object in another object of the same type
q. PDF document - an annotated listing of online professional development resources on the Web
r. query - an instance of access to a database; this definition covers not only data retrieval but also data manipulation, definition and control
s. bandwidth - data transmission rate that can be transmitted along a channel
t. database - an organized body of related information
u. network - a computer system that allows people to share files and peripherals
v.
LAN - " Local Area Network " which offer small businesses / univerties computer networks for employees and students
WAN - a data communications network that covers a relatively broad geographic area and often uses transmission facilities provided by common carriers