World wide web

Unit 4 Internet and the World Wide Web

Lesson 1 – Internet - Pre Reading

What about you?

a. Do you use the Internet?

b. Do you have an e-mail address? How many web providers do you know?

c. Do you usually chat?

d. Are you currently posting to a newsgroup, forum or blog? Have you ever done it?

Exercise 1: General Glossary

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• 3-D
• Access Provider
• Bandwidth
• BBS
• Chat Room
• Cyberspace
• Domain Name
• Download
• E-mail
• Emoticon
• Firewall
• Flame
• Home Page
• Hotlist
• HTML
• Hypertext
• Icon
• IT
• Link
• Multimedia
• Netiquette
• Newsgroup
• Posting
• Search engine
• SPAM
• Surfing or Net surfing
• Tech-savvy
• Thread
• URL
• Web Page
• Webmaster
• World Wide Web

1. IT: Abbreviation for Information Technology. __________________________________________
2. Chat Room: An electronic space, typically a website or a section of an online service, where people can go to chat, that is to communicate online in real time. ____________________
3. Also referred to as a web page, it is the starting point of a Web presentation. It is a sort of table of contents for what is at the website, offering direct links to the different parts of the site.____________
4. A person in charge of maintaining a website. ________________________________________
5. Hypertext: It usually refers to any text available on the World Wide Web that contains links to other documents. It presents information in which text, sounds, images, and actions are linked together in a way that allows you to jump around between them in whatever order you choose (non-linear). ____________
6. Access Provider: It is the company that provides you with Internet access and in some cases, an online account on their computer system (tin, hotmail, tiscali…). Also called ISP (Internet Service Provider). _________
7. It is an e-mail message posted to an electronic communication service, such as a newsgroup or BBS (forums and blogs included). _______________________________________________
8. Popularly known as the Web. It’s a worldwide collection of text and multimedia files and other network services interconnected via a system of hypertext documents. ______________
9. This is the acronym for Bulletin Board System, a system that lets people read each other's messages and post new ones. The Usenet is, in effect, the world's largest distributed. __________________
10. The process of copying data files from a remote computer to a local computer. The opposite action is upload where a local file is copied to a server. _____________________________________
11. An insulting message exchanged via email or within newsgroups.___________________________
12. It is an electronic discussion group consisting of collections of related postings on a particular topic. You must subscribe in order to participate in it. ______________________________
13. A document created with HTML that is part of a group of hypertext documents on the WWW. These documents form what is known as a website and can contain photos, images, sounds, and videos for downloading. You can read them with a browser (like Internet Explorer or Netscape) ___________
14. It is a small image, usually a symbol, used to graphically represent a software program, file, or function on a computer screen. _____________________________________________
15. Bandwidth: A measurement of the volume of information that can be transmitted over a network at a given time. The higher it is, the more data can pass over the network. ____________________
16. It is the unique name that identifies an Internet site. It always has two or more parts separated by dots (www.yourname.com). ________________
17. Short for electronic mail, consists of messages, often just text, sent from one user to another via a network. _____________________________________
18. An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, it is the address for a resource or site (usually a directory or file) on the World Wide Web. ____________________________________________
19. It refers to the practice of posting or sending commercial messages and emails, or advertisements to a large number of uninterested newsgroups or email recipients. ____________________
20. An acronym for HyperText Markup Language, it is the computer language used to create hypertext documents. ______________________________________________
21. It is a list of links, compiled and maintained by your web browser, to interesting important URLs that you can click on to go directly to a website. Called also bookmarks or favourites.______________
22. It is a term coined by science fiction author William Gibson to describe the whole range of information resources available through computer networks. ____________________________
23. It allows only specific kinds of messages from the Internet to flow in and out of the internal network. This protects the internal network from intruders or hackers. ______________________
24. It is a form of online etiquette – an informal code of conduct that governs what is generally considered to be the acceptable way for users to interact with one another online. _____________
25. It is a series of related newsgroups, BBS, or e-mail messages on a given subject, including the original message and the subsequent replies. _________________________________________
26. It refers to the simultaneous use of more than one type of media such as text with sound, moving or still images with music, and so on.