Transcript COMMON INTERNET TERMS YOU NEED TO KNOW

COMMON INTERNET
TERMS YOU NEED TO
KNOW
ARPANet --(Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) -- 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 that would
survive a nuclear war.
APPS
Short for Applications
“programs for mobile devices”
Attachment --Something added
to an e-mail. File – Pictures etc
• BBS --(Bulletin Board System) -- A computerized
meeting and announcement system that allows
people to carry on discussions, upload and
download files, and make announcements without
the people being connected to the computer at the
same time. Replaced by FACEBOOK -PINTEREST
• BLOG--Short for web log. A frequent,
chronological publication of personal thoughts and
Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is
happening in a person's life and what is happening
on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site,
although there are as many unique types of blogs
as there are people CARINGBRIDGE - FACEBOOK
• BPS --(Bits-Per-Second) -- A measurement
of how fast data is moved from one place to
another. A 10/100 mb ethernet card can
move 10,000 or 100,000 million bits per
second. 1GB network card is 1 billion bits
per second.
• Bookmark/Favorite --A way to get to a site
without having to type it in. Retains previous
location/URL
CABLE MODEM- Refers to coax cable installed by cable television companies
that also carry internet data/signals for internet use and speed
CLOUD COMPUTING
Using computer resources (hardware and software) that are
delivered as a service over the internet) USING EXTERNAL
STORAGE – SKYDRIVE, GOOGLE DRIVE, DROPBOX
• Congestion --When too many people are
trying to do the same thing at the same time
• Cyberspace --Term is currently used to
describe the whole range of information
resources available through computer
networks.
• Dial Up --A temporary, as opposed to
dedicated, connection between machines
established over a telephone line using
modems
• Domain --A group of computers and
devices on a network that are administered
as a unit with common rules and
procedures
• Domain Name Server --The unique name that
identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have
2 or more parts, separated by dots.
• www.Edgertonpublic.com
Download --to load or transfer (a program, file, etc.), from a central
computer to another computer or terminal
• Ethernet --A very common method of networking
computers in a LAN. Ethernet will handle
10,000,000/100,000,000/1 billion bits-per-second
and can be used with almost any kind of computer
Email -- (Electronic Mail) -- Messages, usually
text, sent from one person to another via computer.
E-mail can also be sent automatically to a large
number of addresses
• File Server A computer that stores files for
access by other computers
• Fiberoptics – Glass strands of
communication lines used by
telecommunication companies for data and
voice transmissions. Very fast and
thickness of a human hair
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) -- A very common
method of moving files between two Internet sites.
FTP is a special way to login to another Internet
site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending
files.
• GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) -- A common format for
image files, especially suitable for images containing large
areas of the same color. GIF format does not store
photographic images as well as JPEG.
Computer Hacker
• Computer hacking is broadly defined as
intentionally accesses a computer without
authorization or exceeds authorized
access
• Home Page Several meanings. Originally,
the web page that your browser is set to use
when it starts up. The more common
meaning refers to the main web page for a
business, organization, person or simply the
main page out of a collection of web pages
• http --(HyperText Transfer Protocol) -- The
protocol for moving hypertext files across the
Internet. HTTP is the most important protocol
used in the World Wide Web
• https: -- Secure HTTP transmissions.
(Financial, personal)
• HTML -- (HyperText Markup Language) -The coding language used to create
Hypertext documents for use on the World
Wide Web.
• Internet The vast collection of interconnected networks that all use the TCP/IP
protocols and that evolved from the
ARPANET of the late 60’s and early 70’s.
The Internet now connects roughly 100
million independent networks into a vast
global internet
• Java Java is a network-oriented programming
language invented by Sun Microsystems. Using
small Java programs (called "Applets"), Web
pages can include functions such as animations,
calculators, and other fancy tricks
• JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) -JPEG is most commonly mentioned as a format
for image files. LESS memory required
• Link -- An HTML tag used to indicate the
relationship between documents
• Network -- Any time you connect 2 or more
computers together so that they can share
resources, you have a computer network.
Connect 2 or more networks together and you
have an internet
• POP -- (Point of Presence, also Post Office
Protocol) -- Two commonly used meanings:
Point of Presence and Post Office Protocol.
A Point of Presence usually means a city or
location where a network can be connected
to, often with dial up phone lines
Plug-in
• Additional software required by a web
browser to perform a particular function.
• Examples of plug-ins – Adobe Flash,
Reader, Java, Quicktime, Windows
Media Player
• Router -- A special-purpose computer/device (or
software package) that handles the connection
between 2 or more networks. Routers spend all
their time looking at the destination addresses of
the packets passing through them and deciding
which route to send them on
• SPAM – Unsolicited email. Sent by mass
mailings by companies who want to have people
subscribe to their services
Social Media
Sites that allow for social
interaction through online
messaging
• SPYWARE – Files (mini-programs/software) that
is written to reside on unsuspecting and
unprotected computers. Usually affects system
software and slows performance of your
computer. Can be difficult to get rid of. Usually
obtained at game sites or other “free” sites that
people may try to access. Some spyware is very
“sneaky” and makes you believe that you have
already been infected.
• Search Engine -- A program on the Internet that
allows users to search for files and information..
Google, yahoo, MSN, BING
• TCP/IP -- (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
Protocol) -- This is the suite of protocols that defines
the Internet. Originally designed for the UNIX
operating system. To be truly on the Internet, your
computer must have TCP/IP software. IP
addressing very important. Each computer requires
one. Devices on the internet require IP addresses.
• URL -- (Uniform Resource Locator) -- The standard
way to give the address of any resource on the
Internet that is part of the World Wide Web
(WWW)
• Virus -- Program written by someone that usually
causes damage to or prevents software from working
properly. Usually thought to be destructive and
malicious. Can be spread through security “holes”
in email software or operating system
• Creeper gained access independently through a modem
and copied itself to the remote system where the message,
'I'M THE CREEPER : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.' was
displayed. The Reaper program, itself a virus, was created
to delete Creeper
1974 * Rabbit virus appears infecting other machines via
multiplication. Named for the speed at which it clogged the
system with copies of itself, reducing system performance,
before reaching a threshold and crashing
A program called Elk Cloner, written for Apple II systems and
created by Richard Skrenta. Apple II was seen as particularly
vulnerable due to the storage of its operating system on Floppy
disk
• The term 'virus' is coined by Frederick Cohen in
describing self-replicating computer programs. In 1984
Cohen uses the phrase "computer virus" – as suggested
by his teacher Leonard Adleman – to describe the
operation of such programs in terms of "infection"
January 1986: The Brain boot sector virus (aka
Pakistani flu) is released to the wild. Brain is
considered the first IBM PC compatible virus, and the
program responsible for the first IBM PC compatible
virus epidemic.
• Web Page Software -- Software used to make web pages.
Many software packages today allow for Web page
creation. Microsoft Frontpage, Wordpress, Dreamweaver
• Web Browser -- A program such as Firefox
Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Puffin (app) and
others that are used to view pages on the World
Wide Web
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.COM - Company
.GOV - government
.EDU - education/college
.ORG - Organization
.MIL – Military
.Net -- Network
Current Windows version
Windows 10
Hot Spot
A device that allows
laptops, tablets and other
connected devices linked
to the 4G LTE network
with this Verizon Jetpack
Cybersecurity
• The activity or process, ability or
capability, or state whereby information
and communications systems and the
information contained therein are
protected from and/or defended against
damage, unauthorized use or
modification, or exploitation