Internet Terms

3. A method for moving data over regular telephone lines that is much faster than a regular telephone connection.
5. A software program that is used to view websites.
7. a piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser and saved to the computer.
9. The worldwide standard of the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers and punctuation.
13. A network of educational sites separate from the internet.
15. An issuer of security used in SSL connections.
16. A pointer to a website of the internet.
18. The rate of a modem is how many bits it can send or receive per second.
21. Often permitted by large host computers who are willing to openly share some of their system files to outside users who otherwise would not be able to log in.
22. A set of bits that represent a single character.
23. Computer technology that separates computers and their users into two categories.
24. An audience response tool that facilitates interactivity and on the spot evaluation in the classroom.

1. A measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another.
2. The transmission capacity of the lines that carry the Internet's electronic traffic.
4. The precursor to the internet.
6. An online meeting and information system that allows people to carry on discussions, make announcements and transfer files.
7. The most common directory to store CGI programs.
8. A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network.
10. A programming language used to convert data gathered from a web page into another form.
11. A commercial news service dedicated to a wide range of topics that provide tailored news reports via the internet.
12. The smallest unit of computerized data.
14. A contraction of the words web and log.
17. A small java program that can be placed in an HTML page.
19. A common audio file format for UNIX systems.
20. A section of memory or the hard drive where data can be stored for rapid or frequent access.
21. A common video file format.