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Title: Tech Chapter Four
Description: Emerging Technologies Chapter Four
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Author: mphoebe2000
Created: 2012-02-07
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    • Side 3
    • Modem
    • A piece of hardware that lets a computer talk to another computer over a phone line
    • Dial-Up Access
    • Something that is always connected using existing telephone lines.
    • Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
    • a line that is always connected using existing telephone lines.
    • Internet Service Provider (ISP)
    • a company that provides users with local access to the Internet
    • Internet Browser
    • A program that allows the user to access the internet
    • Networked
    • A gorup of computers or devices that is connected together for the exchange of data and sharing of resources.
    • Specialized Search Engines
    • uses highly developed algorithms to search for relevant information and return a listing in order of relevancy with amazing accuracy.
    • Internet
    • the internconnecting global public network made by connecting smaller shared public networks. uses TCP/IP protocol to facilitate information exchange
    • World Wide Web
    • made up of all of the computers on the internet that use HTML-capable software to exchange data
    • Hub
    • a device used for sharing a signal among multiple computer devices.
    • switch
    • a high-performance alternative to a hub.
    • router
    • a piece of hardware that routes data from a local area network to a phone line
    • logical address
    • addresses for delivering messages
    • physical address
    • the physical address is the media access control, or MAC, address
    • media access control address (MAC)
    • a physical address that is unique; that is stored in a special memory location in a computerized device.
    • IP
    • Internet protocol address. A string of four numbers separated by periods used to represent a computer on the internet.
    • browser
    • a software program that allows a person to use a computer to access the internet.
    • URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
    • the internet address for a website
    • Domaine Nomenclature
    • part of the URL naming protocol
    • type-ahead feature
    • this feature completes the address after a few letters of the address are typed.
    • mailbox
    • an electronic storage location for e-mail messages
    • attachment
    • is a record or file associated with another recod for the purpose of storage or transfer
    • static files
    • a file that contains only data
    • macros
    • small programs that execute sofware functions when activated
    • ISDN
    • integrated services digital network, uses digital telephone lines
    • ZIP File
    • an open standard for compression and decompression used widely for PC download archives
    • E-mail Archiving
    • the continuous saving of e-mail data
    • metadata
    • information about a particular data set, which may describe, for example, how, when, and by whom it was received, created, accessed, andor modified, and how it is formatted.
    • system metadata
    • the data such as file names, size, and location
    • content metadata
    • information about the contents of a document
    • list serves
    • an automatic mailing list, usually for specific topics
    • Netiquette
    • rules of behavior for using the internet
    • encryption
    • scrambling documents using algorithms (mathematical formulas)