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| Who invented the Internet? |
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U.S. government funded
ARPANET
In the midst of the Cold War |
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| "fathers" of the Internet |
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| Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn |
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a clip of audio or video content that is broadcast over the Interest using compressed files - MP3s
-> radio shows, audio books, delivered automatically to your computer |
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RSS technology (Really Simple Syndication)
-Need AGGREGATOR: software programs that go out and grab the latest update of Web material according to your specifications |
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broadcast of audio or video content over the Internet.
-Do not update automatically, allow interactive responses from audience |
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(Weblogs)
personal logs, or journal entries |
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| personal journals that use video as the primary content in addition to text, images, and audio. |
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| type of website that allows users to change its content by adding, removing, or editing the content |
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Voice Over Internet Protocol is a form of voice-based Internet communication that turns a standard Internet connection into a means to place phone calls, including long-distance calls.
-> Skype, Vonage |
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| written message that is sent and received over electronic communication systems |
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anything that involves one or more forms of media in addition to text
-> Graphics, audio files, video files |
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| continuously feeds and aduio file to your browser so you avoid having to wait for the entire file to download completely before listening to it |
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| continuously feeds a video file to your browser so that you can watch large files as they download instead of first having to download the files completely |
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special software required to view certain files
-> Adobe Reader, QuickTime, Flash |
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| E-commerce, electronic commerce |
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| process of conducting business online such as through advertising and selling products |
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| business-to-consumer transactions |
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| exchanges that take place between business and consumers - such as purchases from online stores |
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| option you can select in your e-mail account that places known or suspected spam messages into a folder other than your inbox |
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| small text files that some web sites automatically store on your computer's hard drive when you visit the site |
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| What do Web sites do with cookie information? |
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| Cookies provide web sites with information about your browsing habits, such as the ads you've opened, the products you've looked at, and the time and duration of your visits. |
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software that has a malicious intent
Three forms
1. Adware
2. Spyware
3. Viruses & Worms |
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| software that displays sponsored advertisements in a section of your browser window or as a pop-up ad box and is considered a legitimate means of generation revenue for those developers who do not charge for their software |
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unwanted piggyback program that downloads the software you want to install from the Internet and runs in the background of your system.
-> Trojan virus |
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| lures internet users to reveal personal information such as credit card number, social security numbers, or other sensitive information that could lead to identity theft |
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contain information that is untrue, may request that you send money to cover medical costs for an impoverished and sick child or ask you to pass on bogus information such as how to avoid a virus
-> Chain e-mail letters |
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software installed on your computer system that allows you to locate, view, and navigate the web
-> Firefox, Internet Explorer |
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protocol - http://
domain name - www.google
top-level domain (TLD) - .com or .edu |
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a list of pages within a website you've visited that usually appears at teh top of a page
Kansas State University/Academics/Scholarships/Application |
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| Three parts to a Search Engine |
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1. Spider: constantly collects data on the web, following links and reading web pages.
2. Indexer program: organizes data into a large database
3. Search engine software: (what you interact with), searches indexed data and pulls our relevant information
Hits: list of seraches |
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| largest and fastest pathway and main artery of the internet, all intermediary pathways connect to this backbone |
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AND, NOT, OR
Combination of the three
Quotations marks = string of words
Wildcard* = Psych* (used when different endings)
Wildcard% = Goldsm%th (different spellings) |
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