INTERNET TUTORIAL 1 TEST
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- Using
the Internet, you can read online versions of academic journals,
participate in games and simulations, and obtain free computer software.
- LANs
are commonly used to connect computers that are located close together.
- A server
can be a powerful PC, a minicomputer, or a mainframe computer.
- A
mainframe or a minicomputer is a large, expensive computer that businesses
and other organizations use to process large volumes of work at high
speeds.
- Twisted-pair
cable has two or more insulated copper wires wrapped around each other and
enclosed in another layer of plastic insulation.
- Fiber-optic
cable is lighter and more durable than coaxial cable, but it is harder to
work with and much more expensive.
- Fiber-optic
cable transmits signals much faster than twisted-pair or coaxial cable.
- The
word Internet is an abbreviation of interconnected network.
- Most
early WANs used leased telephone company lines for their connections.
- The
early models for networked computers were the telephone companies.
- The
original purpose of the ARPANET was to connect computers in the field that
were controlling a wide range of diverse weapons systems.
- TCP
includes rules that computers on a network use to establish and break
connections.
- IP
includes rules for routing individual data packets.
- The
TCP/IP suite included two tools for transferring files and accessing
computers remotely: FTP and Telnet, respectively.
- Researchers
at the University of Essex wrote a program that allowed users to assume
character roles and play an adventure game; these games continue on the
Internet today and are called MUDs.
- The
Internet Worm program created multiple copies of itself on the computers
it infected in 1988.
- In
1991, the National Science Foundation further eased its restrictions on
Internet commercial activity and began implementing plans to privatize
much of the Internet.
- Internet
traffic now carries more files that contain graphics, sound, and video, so
the average size of Internet files has increased.
- An
unknown number of individual e-mail messages and files travel on the
Internet annually.
- The
development of hypertext and graphical user interfaces played a key role
in making the Internet easier to use and more accessible to people who
were not research scientists.
- HTML
is a language that includes a set of codes (or tags) attached to text;
these tags describe the relationships among text elements.
- HTML
includes tags that indicate which text is part of a header element, which
text is part of a paragraph element, and which text is part of a numbered
list element.
- In an
HTML document, a hyperlink points to another location in the same or
another HTML document.
- You
can use several different types of software to read HTML documents, but
most people use a Web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft
Internet Explorer.
- The
development of the World Wide Web worked hand-in-hand with the
commercialization of the Internet to spur the Internet’s growth.