Computer/ICT Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Search Engine
  2. 4. Reality The simulation of an environment by presentation of 3D moving images and associated sounds
  3. 6. A host name is the unique name of a computer on the Internet, which is normally written as a series of letters, for example www.hull.ac.uk. A host name is the human-friendly form of the host's numerical IP address, i.e. it's an alias for the "real" Internet address of the host computer, e.g. 150.237.176.24
  4. 8. An abbreviation for Portable Document Format.
  5. 9. playing audio or video in real time from a website
  6. 10. User Interface An Interface, i.e. a software package, that enables human beings to control what happens on their computers.
  7. 11. System A suite of programs that starts up when you switch on your computer and manages and runs all the other programs installed on the computer. Windows is the operating system developed and produced by the Microsoft Corporation.
  8. 12. A programming language, invented by Sun Microsystems, that is specifically designed for writing programs that can be downloaded to your computer through the Internet and immediately executed. Using small Java programs, called applets
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  1. 1. Abbreviation for Uniform Resource Locator, also known as a Web Address.
  2. 2. The opposite to Hardware. A generic term describing all kinds of computer programs, applications and operating systems.
  3. 5. Abbreviation for Information and Communications Technology.
  4. 6. A contraction of hypertext link, the essence of Hypertext and the HTML language used for creating pages on the World Wide Web.
  5. 7. drives portable and can be connected to almost any computer
  6. 8. Learning Environment PLE, unlike a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), is an approach to using new technologies that enables learners to develop and control their own learning environment using a range of Social Networking tools.