1. NAVIGATING THE INTERNET ALPHABET SOUP

2.  A global network that connects millions of computers all over the world.  The Internet backbone is the central network that links all the parts of the Internet together.

3.  ISP: Internet Service Providers sell Internet access to customers  NSP: Network Service Providers supply direct backbone access to ISPs backbone

5.  A system of computers that allows you to communicate with other computers talking the same language (protocol)

6.  Protocol: rules for communicating between two electronic devices  Internet Protocol (IP): rules for communicating on the Internet  Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): rules for transferring web pages (HTML documents) on the Internet

7.  Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP): protocol used for transmitting electronic mail  File Transfer Protocol: a protocol designed to transfer files between an FTP server and a computer—example: downloading software  VoIP is a technology that allows telephone calls to be made over computer networks like the Internet.

8.  Uniform Resource Locator  Specifies the internet address of a file stored on a host computer  Example:  http://www.d1baseball.com/conferences/standings_sec.htm

9.  Protocol – host – path – filename  Example: http://www.d1baseball.com/conferences/standings_sec.htm http://www.d1baseball.com/conferences/standings_sec.htm Protocol: http:// Host: www.d1baseball.com Path: conferences Filename: standings_sec.htm

10.  Computers use a domain name system to translate URLs into numeric addresses  The numeric address is known as the Internet Protocol (IP) address; a unique address is assigned to EVERY computer or device that connects to the Internet  An IP address is a four-part number, each part consisting of a digit from 0 to 255.  Example: 207.46.192.254

11.  TLD – Top level domain; suffix at the end of a web address .com—commercial; generic .edu—educational institution—higher ed .gov—state or federal government .mil—U.S. military .net—network service provider (can be used generically) .org—usually nonprofit but can be generic .pro—professional—like physicians, lawyers, CPAs, etc. .name—reserved for individuals

12.  A domain name that identifies the location of a server  Example: bkps.k12.ar.us.us—United States.jp—Japan.uk—United Kingdom.ca—Canada.mx—Mexico.it-??????.in-?????????

13.  Software Program that provides our connection to the Internet  Reads hypertext documents  Examples:  Internet Explorer  Safari  Firefox

14.  A document written in HTML that contains words/images that connect to another document

15.  Hypertext Markup Language: the language used to write web pages Warren G. Harding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <link rel="copyright" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" /

16.  A program that works WITH the web browser to display multimedia.  Flash  Java  Quicktime  Typically not a stand-alone program