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37 Cards in this Set
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1969 |
The seeds of the internet was planted in __________ |
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Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) |
The seeds of internet was planted in 1969 when ____________ of the US Department of Defense began connecting computers at different universities and defense contractors |
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US Department of Defense |
ARPA of the ___________ |
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ARPANET |
The resulting network was called __________ |
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TRUE |
The goal of this early project was to create large computer network with multiple paths in the form of telephone line that could survive a nuclear attack or other disaster |
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ARPANET |
Was basically a large network serving only a handful or users, but it expanded rapidly. Initially the network included our primary host computers |
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Host |
Is like a network, providing services to other computer that connect to it |
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ARPANET host computers |
provided file transfer and communications services and gave connected system access to the networks high speed data lines |
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Atlantic to Norway and England in 1973 |
The network jumped across the __________ and it never stopped growing |
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Mid 1980 National Science Foundation |
Joined the projects after the defense drop its funding |
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Five supercomputing centers |
NSF established _______ that were available to anyone who wanted to use them for academic purposes |
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NSFNET |
The NSF created a new higher capacity network called __________ |
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Internet |
Link between the ARPANET and the NSFNET and the other network was called ________ |
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Collection is networked network Internet world wide network |
Is described as being inter-networked, which is where the ___________ gets it's name |
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Network backbone |
Is the central structure that connects other elements of the network |
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1990 |
Year when the original ARPANET was shutdown |
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1995 |
Year when the ARPANET discontinued |
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Mid of 1990 |
Year when the interest in the internet expanded dramatically |
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Web browser |
To access the web you need a special software program called _________ Provides tools that let you navigate the web Is an application program that is stored in your computers disk |
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Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator |
Two most popular web browsers |
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Start page |
A web page may open in the browser window as soon as you launch the program this is called the _________ |
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Navigating the web |
Means moving from one web page to another, or from one web site to another |
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Web page |
Is a document formatted with hypertext markup language tags |
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Web sites |
Is a collection of related web pages |
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Uniform resource locator / URL |
Every web page has a unique address called? |
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Hyperlink |
Is simply a part of the web page that is link to the URL |
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Hyperlink textbox |
Looks different from normal text in a web page. It is usually underlined but can be formatted in number of ways |
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Navigator tools |
It is the Hyperlinked pictures or graphical buttons that direct you to different pages, making it easier to find the information you need |
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Back and forward buttons |
Return you to recently viewed pages similar through a magazine |
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Back button |
Returns you to previously opened web pages |
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Forward button |
Move forward returning the last page you opened before you clicked the back button |
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Bookmarks |
Allows you to bookmark web pages you frequently visited |
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Directories and Search Engine |
Two most basic and commonly used web-based search tools |
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Directories |
Allows you to search information by selecting categories of subject matter It separates subjects into categories which are broken into increasingly specific sub categories It reviews the site contents |
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Search engine |
Lets your search information by typing one or more words. |
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Keyword search |
it displays a list of web pages that contain information related to your words. This type of look-up is called? |
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Meta Search Engine |
Is helpful if you are not certain which keywords to use if you want to get a very long list of websites that meets your criteria |