Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Vocabulary 2


1.         Internet Service Provider (ISP) - a business providing its customers withconnection to the internet and other related services

2.         Chat - real-time conversation in a chat room

3.         TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol over Internet Protocol.

4.         Hit - A request to a web server from a web browser or other client

5.         Browser - a softwareprogram that allows the user to find and read encodeddocuments in a form suitable for display, especially such aprogram for use on the World Wide Web.

6.         Virus - a segment of self-replicating code planted illegally in acomputer program, often to damage or shut down a systemor network.

7.         Universal Resource Locator - an address that identifies a particular file on the Internet, usually consisting of the protocol, as http, followed by the domain name.

8.         Marc Andreessen - an American entrepreneur, investor, software engineer, and multi-millionaire. He is best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used Web.

9.         Gopher - A distributed document retrieval system

10.     Arpanet - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network 

11.     Cyberspace - the realm of electronic communication.

12.     Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - a document, in question and answer format, that introducesnewcomers to a topic, as in an Internet newsgroup.

13.     Shareware - computer software distributed without initial charge but for which the user is encouraged to pay a nominal fee to coversupport for continued use.

14.     Telnet - The Internet standard protocol for remote login.



No comments:

Post a Comment