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Flashcards by Christopher Taylor, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Christopher Taylor
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Chat room | Users log in & exchange text-based messages with other people |
| Domain | The name given to the addresses of computers on a network or the internet. All the addresses are numbers so they are given names which are easier to use |
| An electronic message; it consists of a ‘header’ containing the addresses of the sender & recipient and the ‘content’ which is the actual message | |
| Email client | Software application used for sending, receiving & storing emails |
| Email inbox | A folder on a computer used to store incoming messages |
| Email outbox | A folder on a computer used to store outgoing messages |
| Email server | A computer connected to the internet that sends/receives and stores emails |
| Email address | The username of the person followed by the domain that provides the email service |
| GPS | Global Positioning Systems – use satellites to allow GPS devices (e.g. a satnav) to work out where they are |
| Home page | The first page that opens on a user’s computer when a browser starts up – it can be set by the user. A website homepage is the first page to open on a particular website |
| HTML | (hypertext markup language) Instructions to tell a web browser how to display a page |
| Hyperlink | A piece of code that directs a user to another page on a website; the code is usually hidden from the user and the hyperlink appears as a word or sentence |
| IM | Real-time text-based messages sent between people |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider – the company that connects a user to the internet and may also provide their email account |
| Microprocessor | An integrated circuit that carries all the functions of a CPU (central processing unit) |
| Navigational aid | Menus, buttons & links to enable a user to navigate to other pages or places on a page |
| Online | a peripheral connected & ready for use; a computer/user connected to the internet/a network |
| Posting | A contribution to a conversation on a website |
| Protocol | A set of rules that needs to be followed for communication between devices to take place |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification (used to tag goods & pets) |
| Search engine | Used to search for information on the www & shows users the results of the search so they can navigate to them |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator – the route to a file on a server |
| Video conferencing | Uses video cameras, microphones, speakers & monitors to hold meetings/business conversations over the internet |
| Web browser | Software application that allows users to view text, images & other features on web pages and allows navigation between websites |
| Web page | Document, usually written in html, which contains instructions to tell the browser how to display the page |
| Web server | A computer that holds web pages & allows access to them by others over the internet or a network |
| Website | A collection of pages about related topics & accessed from the same servers |
| World Wide Web | Pages of information stored on servers & accessed via the internet |
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