Fundamentals of Digital technology

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Internet
The internet is the network of netwrosk connecting all computing devices together through connections such as telephone lines
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World wide web (www)
Its a collection that has grown on computers connected to the internet
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Uniform resource locator (URL)
Its a unique address giving resources on the the internet a unique locator
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Hyper text tansfer protocol (HTTP)
Its a protocol that defines the process of identifying, requesting and transferring multimedia web pages over the internet
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IP address
Each computer that is connected the the internet has a IP address that uniquely identifies it and shows the location of which it is at like a physical address for a house, static IP's will stay the same though dynamic IP's can change time to time
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Web browser
Its a application that runs on the users computer that is responsible for requesting text, graphics and images from servers on the internet, some web browsers are applications such as Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox
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Web server
A web server provides internet webpages on other computers over the internet. it often provoides a cache of webpages
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Web hosting
Web hosting is a service that allows companys, users and services to set up and show websites on web browsers that are accesible from the world wide web
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File transfer protocol (FTP)
Users can use this to request a file from a server and download it to the computer that they are working on, you can also send files to this service to let other usres download it for themselves
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Internet service provider (ISP)
An organization that has a direct link to the internet and accepts transmissions from other users over dial-up broadband connections and passes these on to the internet
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Search engine
A application that a user can input specific information ad the engine will display back to the user a list of links in which they can press going to different webpages that had some sort of link to the topic that they are looking up for
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Cache
This is a store of info on the web browser that can contain images and over info, this is more efficient as it ould take too much time to transfer all of the info on some pages over the internet to the user
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Cookies
Cookies is info placed by websites onto your harddrive that can contain previously entered info whihch means that it is not needed ot be re-entered, these have to be either accepeted or delined to the user when they visit or re-visit the site
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Portal
A portal site is a site where the user can make up there own web page that is made up of links to other information and sites that the user accesses or uses allot compared to others
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Website
A coollection of web pages contained in the same domain usually containing similar information to eachother in which the user can ove between them and view them separetly
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Webpage
A weboage is a document that can be accesess by the user in a browser in which it can contain text and images, though larger material such as video cannot be stored here and would have to be streamed instead
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Its a collection that has grown on computers connected to the internet

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World wide web (www)

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Its a unique address giving resources on the the internet a unique locator

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Card 4

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Its a protocol that defines the process of identifying, requesting and transferring multimedia web pages over the internet

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Card 5

Front

Each computer that is connected the the internet has a IP address that uniquely identifies it and shows the location of which it is at like a physical address for a house, static IP's will stay the same though dynamic IP's can change time to time

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