Exam 8: The Internet and the World Wide Web

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

One advantage of using personal computers for Internet access is that they have relatively large screens for viewing Internet content,and they typically have a full keyboard for easier data entry.

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

One advantage of a dial-up connection is ____.

The ____ is cited as a disadvantage of Web-based training and distance learning by some educators.

ISPs that offer free Internet access typically obtain revenue by selling on-screen ads.

Discuss the popular myth that someone controls the Internet.

Internet Explorer users can view and/or delete cookies and other temporary files by using the ____ dialog box.

The use of cookies provides no benefits to consumers.

-The program in the accompanying figure allows you to ____.

In a nutshell,blogs are designed for primarily one-way running communications,while ____ are intended to be modified by others.

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.

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

Twittering is sometimes referred to as chatting.

To determine if the information from a Web page can be trusted, you should evaluate both the ____ and the source.

____ are companies that manage and distribute Web-based software services to customers over the Internet.

____________________ is free or low-cost software that is supported by on-screen advertising.

____________________ is a direct connection that transmits over standard telephone lines.

____ is charged with such responsibilities as IP address allocation and domain name management.