Telecommunications-Internet+Vocab

= __Telecommunications/Internet Vocabulary __ =

Brenda Sanchez and Brandi Haney
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 * Antivirus program- Software that is capable of detecting and removing viruses.
 * Asynchronous- Of or pertaining to the operation of a computer or electrical device without the use of fixed time intervals

Connor Taylor and Socorro Barajas

 * ==== Acceptable Use Policy - A policy that a user must agree to follow in order to be provided with access to a network or to the Internet. ====

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 * ====Bandwidth - Generally either the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period. ( Usually a second). ====

Ashley Guinn and Tess Snider

 * ====Baud Rate- The number of symbols being transferred per a second. ====

Erica Wise

 * ====Bulletin Board System- is a computer or an application to the sharing. ====

Maria Flores and Dalton Houghs

 * ====Cyberspace- Electronic medium of compute network ====

Example- Digital world.

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Distance Learning- A field or education that focusses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex Hunnicutt and Liz Lindahl

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Download- To transfer data from one computer to another. ====

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 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Domain-The suffix of an internet address, representing a section of the internet ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cassie Fox

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Electronic footprints- Is computing data theat identifies that you have connected to a particular website ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dalton Reese and Daniel Hampton

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Etectronic Main- Known more as email. Is one of most widley used forms of communication today. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- A method of exchanging digital messages.

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Firewall- Is a system desigened to prevent unorthonized access to or from a private network. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Dale Russ

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">HTML- Hyper Text Mark-up Language- The language web pages are written in. The syntax of the HTML is very important to the page being displayed correctly. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- Lots of numbers and letters.

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">HTTP- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol- This is the protocol used to transfer data over the world wide web. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- N/A

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Telecollaboraton- The cooperatively working on group projects using the internet. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Blaze VanDike

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hacker- A person that is skillful with computer programming that uses that ability to gain unauthorized access to data. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- People who hacked PSN.

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hyper Link- Computers ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Toleda French

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hyper Media- An extension to hyper text providing multimedia facilities such as those handling sound and video. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jacob Waldroop

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Internet- A vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks all of which use the same set of communication protocols. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- Youtube sensation,

 * ====<span style="color: #7a06d0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ISP- Internet Service Provider- It refers to a company that provides internet services, including personal and business access to the internet. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jacob Smith

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LAN- ====

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 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Log Off- ====

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 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spyware- ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Laura Thompson

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Log On- is the procedure used to get access to an operating system, a network, or entering into a computer. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- "I have to log on if I want to get on the computer."

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Modem- A combined device for modulation and demodulation. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lily Edwards

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Phishing- is an email fraud method in which perpatrators send out legitamate looking email in attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- A fake email that looks like it comes from a bank and asks for your information.

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Plagiarism- The practice of taking someone elses work or ideas and passing them off as ones own. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Maria Flores

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Synchronous- Occurring at the same time. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- Chatting and video chatting.
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- Sending private pictures of yourself or someone else to your friends. Sending a message from your friend without their permission. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">SPAM- Sending Particularly Annoying Messages- is sending messages to a large amount of people on the internet. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Malware- applications designed to do harm ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chad Lecka

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Telecomputing- ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jacob Keener

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Threaded Discussion- A running commentary or messages between two or more people in a discussion group. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- Chatting, talking, texting, e-mailing, etc.

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Telecourse- A course of study presented on television, as for local home viewers recieving credit at a community college. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Faith Benfield

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Top Level Domain- is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. Refers to the suffix attached to Internet domain names. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Devyn Plyler

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Upload- To transfer from a smaller to a larger computer. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Example- To upload a picture to Facebook.

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Intranet- ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Megan Moore

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">URL- Uniform Resource Locator- A regulation for a specific address on the internet. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elizabeth Thompson

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">WAN- Wide Area Network- A long-distance communication network that covers a wide area. Such as a state, country, or city. ====

<span style="color: #f68704; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Laiken McCloud

 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Web Browser- ====

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 * ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Telecommunications- ====