Exam 8: The Internet and the World Wide Web

A more advanced search strategy that can be used when basic searching is not producing the desired results is field searching. _________________________

One objective of the ____ project was to create a computer network that would allow researchers located in different places to communicate with each other.

Describe Internet filtering and its various uses.

The Internet Society provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet and oversees the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards.

____ is a consortium of researchers, educators, and technology leaders from industry, government, and the international community that is dedicated to the development of revolutionary Internet technologies.

A(n) ____ is a collection of an individual's work accessible through a Web site.

A(n) e-diary is a Web page that contains short, frequently updated entries in chronological order. _________________________

____________________ enables individuals to create self-published, inexpensive Internet radio broadcasts, such as to share their knowledge, express their opinions on particular subjects, or share original poems, songs, or short stories with interested individuals.

____ sites allow you to generate map and driving directions and provide access to specific types of useful information.

Technically, the Internet is a physical network, and the Web is the collection of Web pages accessible over the Internet.

One advantage of a dial-up connection is ____.

Tim Berners-Lee proposed the idea of the World Wide Web. _________________________

____ limit search results to just those pages with a specific Web page title, URL, text, or top-level domain.

Online auctions allow you to check your account balances, make electronic payments, view your transaction history, and more.

FTP programs block access to a computer from outside computers and enable each user to specify which programs on his or her computer are allowed to have access to the Internet. _________________________

One type of self-contained business application designed to work over the Internet or a company network is a(n) Internet service. _________________________

____ is the most widely used type of home broadband connection, with over half of the home broadband market.

-The accompanying figure shows the MSN ____ Web page.

People who use the Internet for activities, such as looking up telephone numbers, browsing through online catalogs, or making an online purchase, are referred to as "users."

In 1993, a group of professors and students at the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) released the Netscape Web browser. _________________________