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1. How Much Do You Know About the Internet?
2. What is the Internet? The Internet is the world’s largest computer network, connecting more than 4 million computers in over 160 countries.
Fastest growing communication medium ever.
3. Where did the Internet originate? The Internet originated with the military. The military found it necessary to began corresponding using e-mail.
4. What does WWW stand for? World Wide Web
5. How is the Web different from the Internet ? The World Wide Web is the multimedia portion of the web.
Multimedia is comprised of graphics, movie, and sound files, as well as text documents.
Web requires browser software – Netscape or Internet Explorer (IE).
6. What is an ISP? Internet Service Provider
AOL
Earthlink
Juno
7. What does http: stand for ? HyperText Transfer Protocol
Translates each web address into a specific set of numbers
8. What does html stand for? Hyper Text Markup Language
9. What do I need to get on the Internet? Computer
Modem
Browser software
ISP
10. What does URL mean? Uniform Resource Locator
The format for identifying locations (addresses) on the Web.
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/links/elemen.html
11. What is the server name in these addresses? http://edtech.kennesaw.edu
http://webtech.cherokee.k12.ga.us
http://www.cherokee.k12.ga.us
12. What is a search engine? Tool used to search the web.
Google
Yahoo/Yahooligans
Ask Jeeves/Ask Jeeves for Kids