Introduction to Computing

A webpage can be a portal which is just a page where tou can find organized sources that lead to other pages. Like Yahoo

The program you use to access the web, like Google Chrome or Firefox

HTTP

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Interoperability

Netiquette

DSL

ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)

Internet

The internet was meant to be an authority transformation of the system. Making it easy for people to do things that they are not supposed to

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Ability to work with different brands and models of computers.

Povides mehtods for packaging and transmitting information.

Manages assembling of a message or file into smaller packets.

Handles the address part of each packet so that it gets to the right destination.

Supply and sustain user connections to the internet, have to have email servers, maintain the hardware and software, protect their sites

Company that provides wireless internet access, Examples AT , T-mobile, and Verizon Wireless

Public loaction that provides internet access for wireless devices.

high-speed online connection, external modem with telephone, speed decreases as you get further away from a switching station.

High speed internet connection, cable modem not a phone line, if you share your internet with your neighbors it will make it slower.

High speed internet service with antenna and dish connector to indoor receive unit (IRU) and indoor transmit unit (ITU) good boondocks/ MT.

High Speed internet, fiber-optic lines direct, can transmit a lot of data, fastest, most expensive.

contains the information, internet transports the information to and from the users, and just uses the internet.

document that may include text, graphics, sound, animation, and video, most composed of webpages, and most common type of docs.

Program that displays web pages and linked items.

Collection of web pages, typically contains a home page (also called an index page), default page displayed when you enter a site.

Uses links to connect to additional related information

Words and images that bring other documents into view when clicked.

Uses HTML to say how the webpage should look like, uses tags to specify how a web page shoulddisplay.

current generation of the web, provides opportunites to collaborate, interface, and create new content using blogs, Wikis, and podcasts.

dead links, informatiion posted on the web is not validated, information overload due to too much data

Internet explorer (most popular), mozilla firefox (1st browser), Chrome (made by google) safari (apple), opera, other.

additional software programs to extend the ability of the browser, example includes acrobat reader.

Stores web page files and graphics on a computer hard drive when the user visits a site for the first time

Every device connected to the internet is given a unique network identifier, group of four numbers separated by periods.

You type in a logical adress, this then goes to the DNS (domain name system), the DNS identifies the IP address and takes you to the site.

identifies internet resource's type and location, always logical, every site has a unique URL.

Protocol (http), domain name (identifies web server), path (specifies what the subdirectory is), resource name (file name)

Compiles a list of the web pages visited, sometimes the back button does not work because there is confusion (Amazon, Ebay)

Allows web pages visited often to be marked

Process of transferring a file or document from one computer to user's computer

Process of transferring a file or document from user's computer to another computer

connection to a website that allows users to receive constant updates (yahoo), aggregator program gets the new content they alert you

Regularly checks each site on your subscriptions list and sends alerts if new information has been published.

simple web page where any visitor can post text or images, change posted information, and track earlier changes

internet equvalent of a journal or diary where posted opinions, thoughts, and interesting links are kept, any user can update

Audio, image, or video files realeased by web syndication, another way of doing RSS byt with videos (usually)

automatically identify and retrive new files in a given series and make them available.

web pages grouped under specific headings, one way protals organize information

web page that acts as a gateway to diverse sources and presents them in an organized way

Index databases of web pages to enable fast information searches, more popular (google)

programs that roam the web to add new web pages to search engine indexes, way search engines work.

results from hyperlinks that no longer work or web pages that have been removed or restructured.

Perform complex searches

Used so only web pages including those criteria are retrieved (+)

Used so only web pages excluding those criteria are retrieved (-)

Placing quotation marks around a phrase to create a complete unit for search purposes. Exact phrase.

Link search words by using the logical operators such as and, or , and not

A boolean search that uses parentheses

Type of application software that makes sending and receiving messages through computer networks possible

computer file included with an email message

Unique cyberspace address for each individual, consists of a user name, the name of the hosting email service, and the top level domain.

Unsolicited e-mails. 90% come through e-mail.

Malicious software that places a computer in the spammer's control

Set of infected computers that place computers under the control of a bot herde

Gathers data from a system without knowledge

Allow immediate, real-time communication with contacts, spim is spam for this.

Special type of internet service that gives users the ability to join chat groups called channels

Helps people connect, sites such as facebook provide the ability to create large communities online.

Different topics; not quite like URC, its not real-time, worldwide discussion system available through the internet.

Are of high-quality discussions

similar to newsgroups except only subscribers can receive and view messages

Users can speak to others over a broadband internet connection instead on an analog phone line, calls usually free, skype.

Method to transfer files over the internet, use when files are too large to attach to emails, usually requires a username and a password.

Files are publicly available for downloading, lack of security, do not send sensitive material, does not need a pass.

Cconducting business through the use of networks or the internet.

Online Merchants

Refers to a business providing supplies to other businesses via the internet

Refers to the exchange of business between individuals.

Refers to shopping online rather than at a physical store

online chats with live customer service, provide a wide variety of shipping options, responding quickly to customer inquiries.

E-commerce uses web sites with a .comsuffix, period between 1995-00, called dot.com boom, many dot-coms crashed in 2000 (dot.com bubble burs

Series of guidelines for good manners when using an internet service

Angry messages sent by other users

Avoid shoulder-surfers, use https, site seal provided a security vender, locked padlock, verified,

Qhen a child or anyone is targeted for some form of torment or abuse through digital tools

Use e-mail instant messaging, chat rooms, pagers, cell phones, and other forms of information technology to make repeated, threats of violen

Malicious program that can automatically spread itself from computer to computer over a network

Altering accounts or database records to make it difficult to tell funds or equipment has been stolen

Breaks into computer for malicious reasons

Uses two different keys, one to encrypt a message and another to decrypt it.

so called tokens that are generated by handheld devices are required to gain access to a computer system.

Individual's ability to restrict or eliminate the collection, use, and sale of confidential personal information.

Means to communicate without disclosing one's identity, more difficult with the use of computers and the internet.

A small fine sent from a website to your computer hard drive, gather personal information without your consent

identification number produced by software or a piece of hardware, tracked without knoledge, web servers read the GUID.

Transparent graphic images placed on a Web site or in an e-mail

Majority of large U.S. employers observe employee phone calls, e-mails, Web bruwsing habits, and computer files.

When people behind you peek in an attempt to steal your personal information on your computer

Criminal access to personal information in order to impersonate someone

Disgruntled employees or thieves go through a company's trash to find information they can steal

Legitimate-looking e-mails or web sites created in an attempt to obtain confidential data about a person.

Uses targeted fake e-mails and social engineering to trick recipients inot providing personal information to enable identity theft.

Programs that intentionally harm a computer system or allow individuals to gain access without permission

Software that gathers private information and tracks Web Use

Code concealed inside a program that can harm or destroy files, self-replicating codes.

Attach themselves to files, word.

Attach to data files and take advantage of application macros

Execute each time you start the computer

Hidden computer code that sits dormant on a system until triggered

Virus program that rematins dormant on a computer system until activated

Assaults an internet server with so many requests it can't function

Normal-looking program that includes concealed instructions to cause harm

Literally stealing memory from computers

Sharing product codes

Shaving a little bit at a time, inside job, steal a penny from million accounts

Faking information that makes it look like it came from somebody else

Oldest

Wifi Protected Access

Vacation Hacking, evil twins

Unauthorized access of corporate info, usually to the benefit of a computer

Uninterruptible power supply, provides additional power during outages or electrical current fluctuations.

Hardware or software, to prevent unauthorized access.

Obligation of parties to a lawsuit to exchange documents existing only in electronic form

Legal evidence found in computers and digital storage media

Internet is all the hardware, web is service