Exam 2: Technology Infrastructure the Internet and the World Wide Web

_____ is a subset of the computers on the Internet that are connected to one another in a specific way that makes them and their contents easily accessible to each other.

An intranet extends beyond the organization that created it.

The subset of the Internet that includes computers and sensors connected to each other for communication and automatic transaction processing is called the _____.

In HTML, the text elements that are related to each another are called _____ elements.

A(n) _____ is a language that can be used to define other languages.

A(n) _____ has a hypertext reference (HREF) property, which specifies the remote or local document's address.

E-mail was born in 1972 when a researcher wrote a program that could send and receive messages over the Defense Department network.

A(n) _____ is an e-mail address that forwards any message it receives to any user who has subscribed to the list.

The term "cascading" is used in cascading style sheets because designers can apply many style sheets to the same Web page, one on top of the other.

Post Office Protocol (POP) allows the user to view only the header and the e-mail sender's name before deciding to download the entire message.

The leftmost part of a domain name is called a top-level domain (TLD).

_____ lets users create and manipulate e-mail folders and individual e-mail messages while the messages are still on the e-mail server.

Virtual private network software must be installed on the computers at both ends of a transmission.

What are the advantages of Bluetooth technology?

Usenet survives on the Internet today, with more than 1000 different topic areas that are called _____.

Companies known as _____ sell Internet access rights directly to larger customers and indirectly to smaller firms and individuals through other companies, called ISPs.

The first e-mail mailing lists appeared on military and education research networks.

HTML was developed by _____.

A _____ is a permanent telephone connection between two points.

The purpose of a(n) _____ is to respond to requests for Web pages from Web clients.