- The first "internet" - the Arpanet - was started by the U.S. military about 30 years ago so researchers could work together and communicate secretly in different places around the world.
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TrueFalse
- The most popular activity on the Internet from the beginning has been "e-mail", or electronic mail.
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TrueFalse
- There is no "main office" or headquarters for the Internet, only 'committees' that make rules and decisions for how the network works and grows.
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TrueFalse
- The computers on the Internet are connected by (choose the best answer):
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wire cables
fiber optic cables
phone lines
satellites
microwave
all of the above answers are correct
- Most of the big computers on the Internet are run by which 'operating system'?
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Windows
Unix
DOS
Macintosh OS
- Everyone needs to learn the Unix operating system in order to use the Internet.
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TrueFalse
- The "World Wide Web" was started in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee as a research project at the famous CERN physics center in Switzerland.
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TrueFalse
- The World Wide Web is actually a set of rules - protocols - that let people everywhere make 'pages' - websites and web pages - on the Internet and 'jump' from page to page easily. (For example, the "http://" on your computer screen means "HyperText Transfer Protocol.")
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TrueFalse
- The most important (and coolest!) idea that makes the web great is "hypertext". Hypertext means that you can click on some text - a word, phrase, sentence, even a picture - and quickly JUMP to another place on the Web, maybe thousands of miles away in another country. This thing that lets you jump with a mouse click is called a:
Your answer:
Browser
Link
Jump
Hyper
- Every 'page' on the World Wide Web must have an address, just like a house or apartment. This computer network address is called its "URL". URL means:
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Unit of Real Links
University Research Library
Uniform Resource Locator
Useful Rapid Link
- The Net has big computers at governments, companies, and universities that are like 'information highway' intersections. These big computers connect millions of smaller computers - like ours - to the rest of the Internet. These big computers are called "Servers" and the other computers that connect to them are called:
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Customers
Slaves
Servants
Clients
- If you want to connect your client computer to the Internet, you need a connection! Many people connect by phone line to a company that charges them money every month. This company is called:
Your answer:
an ISP - Internet Service Provider
an ISP - Internet Spiderweb Point
a UPI - Useful Point of Intersection
a UPI - United Press International
- By 1992, many "nerds" were using the Internet and the Web, but it didn't have easy pictures or sound - it was useful but boring to look at. A student/worker at the University of Illinois wrote a computer program (with help from a few friends) that made it easy to see pictures on the same screen with written text. He gave his program to people for free, and it quickly became very popular. It was called "Mosaic". Mosaic was the first:
Your answer:
Browser
Searcher
Finder
Window Shopper
- Later that student, Marc Andreessen, started his own company and made a bigger and better browser (1994), which was soon being used by over 70% of people on the Web all over the world. This famous software program is still popular. It's called:
Your answer:
Internet Explorer
Netscape Navigator
Network Associates
Internet Adventurer
- To get to someone's web site, you can type an address, which usually starts with "www" and then has something like "microsoft DOT com" - "microsoft.com". This is called a "Domain Name". The last part, "com", means 'company'. Several others are "gov", "org", "edu", and "net". Which one is for a school like the University of Colorado?
Your answer:
NET
GOV
ORG
EDU
- Because the Internet has millions of pages, it could be very difficult to find anything. A computer company, Digital, created a very powerful and smart and fast program on a supercomputer that could search the Internet for you, looking for the exact word or phrase that you want. This program, called AltaVista, was the first successful:
Your answer:
Internet Phone Book
Web Index
Search Engine
- In 1994, two Stanford University students were having fun playing with the Internet. They created "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" and they told their friends the web address. They made lists of cool web sites in different categories, like "Computers", "Entertainment", "Business", and "Health". In each category, you see another list, and you keep clicking down the line until you find what you want. Their website became VERY popular, and they started a company and became very rich. This famous company is called:
Your answer:
Yeah!
Yowsah!
Yahoo!
Yippee!
- When you find something wonderful on the Internet, you can copy it onto your own computer. You can get a game, a computer program, a picture, a song, a video, etc. Copying from the Internet to your computer's hard disk or floppy disk is called:
Your answer:
Installing
Copying
Stealing
Downloading
- Anything that you download onto your computer - a game, program, picture, etc. - is going to be a "file". There are many, many kinds of files, and it's important to learn about them if you are going to use the Internet. For example, a file with a name that ends with TXT is a simple text file. A file that ends with "DOC" is probably a Microsoft Word document. A "JPG" is a high-quality:
Your answer:
Sound file
Picture file
Video file
- You can get your own "Home Page" on the World Wide Web for FREE from companies like Yahoo-Geocities and MySpace. You can put writing, pictures, music, even videos, on your web pages. Have fun "surfing" the Web!!!
Your answer:
TrueFalse