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Vocabulary Internet
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Computer Science – Espinosa
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criminal activity done using computers and the Internet.
Includes anything from downloading illegal music files to
stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts.
Also includes non-monetary offenses, such as creating
and distributing viruses on other computers or posting
confidential business information on the Internet.
Perhaps the most prominent form of ______ is identity
theft.
Criminals use the Internet to steal personal information
from other users such as credit card information.
Cybercrime
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A term that was introduced in 2004 and refers to the
second generation of the World Wide Web.
Because of its series of technological improvements
new things came about such as wikis, blogs, social
networking
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Web 2.0
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an online service that allows you to share updates
with other users by answering one simple question:
"What are you doing?”
This free service allows you to follow others.
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Twitter
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Acronym for the language that Web pages are
written in.
Web pages must conform to the rules of this
language in order to be displayed correctly in a Web
browser.
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HTML
Hyper-Text-Markup-Language
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Original name for the Internet created by the
defense department.
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency under
President Eisenhower
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ARPANET
The first name for what was to become the Internet
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invented the World Wide Web
www - an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global
information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle
Physics Laboratory in 1989
created the addresses known as URL’s
created the language HTML
runs the W3C consortium
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Tim Berners-Lee
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A process that involves outsourcing tasks to a
distributed group of people.
This process can occur both online and offline and
the difference between this activity and ordinary
outsourcing is that a task or problem is outsourced to
an undefined public rather than a specific body.
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Crowd Sourcing
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Refers to junk e-mail or irrelevant postings to a
newsgroup or bulletin board.
The unsolicited e-mail messages you receive about
refinancing your home, reversing aging, and losing
those extra pounds are all considered to be spam.
This is definitely not cool and is one of the most
notorious violations of Internet etiquette (or
"netiquette").
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Spam
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Fathers of the Internet –
They won a Presidential Medal of freedom award in
2005 for their development of the Internet
which laid the foundation for a global
transformationof communication, commerce, and
entertainment.
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Vint Cert & Bob Kahn
They wrote TCP/IP the language of the Internet
The Internet sends packets of data across the
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Acronym It is a subset of the Internet.
It consists of pages that can be accessed using a
browser.
It is not the Internet (which is the network of all
networked computers)
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WWW
World Wide Web
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refers to applications and services offered over the
Internet.
These services are offered from data centers all over
the world, which collectively are referred to as the
"______"
This metaphor represents the intangible, yet
universal nature of the Internet. Example – Facebook
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Cloud
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It is the address of a specific Web site or file on the
Internet.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator –
Example: http://www.alemany.org
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It is a non-profit corporation that is responsible for
allocating IP addresses and managing the domain
system name for the Internet.
ICANN
Stands for Internet Corporation For Assigned Names
and Numbers
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They index millions of sites on the Web, so that Web
surfers like you and me can easily find Web sites with
the information we want.
By creating indexes, or large databases of Web sites
(based on titles, keywords, and the text in the
pages), this software can locate relevant Web sites
when users enter key phrases.
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Search Engines
Google and Bing are examples
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This Is the name that identifies a web site such as
Microsoft.com. ___________ are registered.
Domain Names
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A small amount of data generated by a website and
saved by your browser.
Its purpose is to remember information about you
such as your login.
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Cookie
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Largest Network of computers in the world.
No one owns it.
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Internet
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refers to high-speed data transmission in which a
single cable can carry a large amount of data at once.
Most common types of Internet _____ connections
are cable modems (which use the same connection as
cable TV) and DSL modems (which use your existing
phone line).
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Broadband
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These are the little text-based faces and objects that
you often see in e-mail and online chat.
They help give the reader a sense of the writer's
feelings behind the text.
For example, the classic =) face shows that the writer
is happy
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Emoticon
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Search engine developed by Microsoft
Designed to compete with Google
Bing
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A global collection of documents located on Internetconnected computers.
Documents can be accessed by browsers such as
Internet Explorer, Safari, or Firefox.
Hyperlinks are used to connect documents to each
other with a click of the mouse.
www
World Wide Web
Remember the www is not the Internet. The www is
mainly the documents on the web.
The Internet was present long before the www.
The Internet is the largest network of computers in
the world
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A ______ is a collection of linked Web pages stored
on a __________ server.
Web Site
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A program that enables you to create and edit Web
pages with hyperlinks, text, images, and multimedia.
It also helps to transfer these pages to a web server.
It also helps to manage large web sites.
It is owned by Adobe and is the industry leader for
this type of web development.
Dreamweaver
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This is a stricter version of the formatting language
used to create Web pages.
XHTML
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This is a vector-based design program used to create
animations and highly advanced interactive features.
Many web pages have been developed using
Dreamweaver and this software application.
Adobe Flash
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This is an important style sheet language used to define
both the structure and presentation of web pages.
They are important for separating the content (text &
images) from the presentation (font size, color,
positioning etc.)- Same content but can be designed for
different presentations – mobile phones, tablets, pcs.
Lastly when web pages are designed with ___ they are
faster to download and easier in the long run to make
changes.
CSS
Stands for Cascading Style Sheets
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A place to store all your files for your web site.
This is very important for transferring a web site to
the web server.
If not done properly the links and images will be
broken. So keep everything in this ___________
It is the first thing you should do when starting a new
web site – create the _____________
Root Folder
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a special HTML tag that is used to store information
about a Web page but is not displayed in a Web
browser..
For example, ________ provide information such as
what program was used to create the page, a
description of the page, and keywords that are
relevant to the page.
Many search engines use the information stored in
______ when they index Web pages.
Meta Tags
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an internet-based computer game set in a virtual
world, which can be played by many people at the
same time, each of whom can interact with the
others
MMORPG
massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game:
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a condition caused by compression of a nerve where
it passes through the wrist into the hand and
characterized especially by weakness, pain, and
disturbances of sensation in the hand and fingers.
Often caused by repetitive motions while working
with devices such as computers.
Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome
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_______ Inverts traditional learning methods,
delivering instruction online outside of school and
moving “homework” into school room.
Kahn Academy supports this learning method.
Flipped Classroom
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__________ is home to the internet's largest, most
popular and most successful citizen science projects
(CSA) that uses crowd sourcing to work on projects
Zooniverse
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The leaders believe this is the biggest thing for
education since the printing press.
A joint project between Harvard and MIT to offer
college level courses to people around the world for
free.
Completion of course does not give college credit but
a certification.
edX
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a show that is broadcast over the web and is broken
up into parts or episodes.
Similar to news radio programs that deliver
information on a regular basis
podcast
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Stands for "RDF Site Summary," but is commonly
referred to as __________is method of providing
website content such as news stories or software
updates in a standard XML format.
Websites such as The Wall Street Journal and CNET’s
News.com provide news stories to various _________
directories that distribute them over the Internet.
RSS
"Really Simple Syndication." RSS
Really stands for RDF Site Summary.
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Stands for _________________is a secure protocol
developed for sending information securely over the
Internet. Many websites use ___ for secure areas of
their sites, such as user account pages and online
checkout.
Usually, when you are asked to "log in" on a website,
the resulting page is secured by ____.
It encrypts the data being transmitted so that a third
party cannot "eavesdrop" on the transmission and
view the data being transmitted.
SSL
"Secure Sockets Layer." SSL
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In order to publish a website online, you need a _______.
It stores all the pages of your website and makes them
available to computers connected to the Internet.
The domain name, such as "sony.com," is actually linked to
an IP Address that points to a specific computer.
When somebody enters your domain name into their
browser's address field, the IP address is located and Web
site is loaded from your _______
Godaddy.com and intuit not only help you design your
web site but they are also serve as the ___________.
Web Host
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__________ refers to business over the Internet. Web
sites such as Amazon.com, Buy.com, and eBay are all
e-commerce sites.
Initially the Internet was just for researchers and
military communication. Then in the early 90’s
Congress passed a law allowing businesses to buy
and sell things over the Internet.
Everyday use of the Internet began to skyrocket with
dot.com business.
E-Commerce
Electronic commerce.
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While _______ is receiving a file from another
computer, __________ is the exact opposite.
__________ is sending a file from your computer to
another system
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Downloading &
Uploading
While downloading is receiving a file from another
computer, uploading is the exact opposite. It is
sending a file from your computer to another system
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__________ - a place where many computers are
stored to make the Cloud
Sometimes called data centers or computer
warehouses.
Server Farm
Also known as server cluster is a collection of
computer servers usually maintained by an
enterprise to accomplish server needs far beyond the
capability of one machine.
Your information stored in the cloud could be on a
server farm anywhere in the world.
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__________ is implementing a national strategy to
collect, preserve and make available significant
digital content,
especially information that is created in digital form
only (born digital), for current and future
generations.
Part of the responsibilities of ___________
NDIIPP & LOC
National Digital Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program
Part of the responsibilities of the Library of Congress
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_____ is free, open source, cross-platform software
for recording and editing sounds.
Often used with podcasting.
Audacity®
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_________ websites allow users to be part of a virtual
community.
The two most popular sites are currently Facebook
and MySpace.
Google Plus was introduced recently to compete
with Facebook.
Social Networking
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__________ is an advanced networking consortium
led by the U.S. research and education community.
A revolutionary-class IP and optical network.
Advanced technologies that enable services and
achievements beyond the scope of individual
institutions.
Internet2
The ________ Network was created to assure the U.S.
higher education and research community a secure
position of technical and thought leadership within
the global Internet operations, policy and research
spaces.
All the UC and Cal State campuses are on the
Internet2 network for faster Internet access.
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This file format is a replacement for GIF format.
It has transparency as well as the color quality of
JPEGs.
It is Adobe Fireworks native file format.
Growing in popularity for web images.
PNG
Pronounced - ping
Technical ??
A legal means of protecting an author's work.
It is a type of intellectual property that provides exclusive
publication, distribution, and usage rights for the author.
This means whatever content the author created cannot
be used or published by anyone else without the consent
of the author.
For example, a blog on the Internet, your content is
automatically covered by ___________.
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Copyright
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Under the ________ doctrine of the U.S. copyright
statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a
work including quotes, for purposes such as
commentary, criticism,
news reporting,
and scholarly reports
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Fair Use
Fair Use is sometimes hard to define
For example showing short clips on movies to do
movie reviews is fair;
But it is not fair to show the part that gives away a
mystery.
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As a general matter, copyright _________occurs
when a copyrighted work is reproduced, distributed,
performed, publicly displayed,
or made into a derivative work without the
permission of the copyright owner.
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infringement
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A work of authorship is in the ___________ if it is no
longer under copyright protection
or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright
protection.
These works may be used freely without the
permission of the former copyright owner.
Public Domain