Web Media - Unit 1 Vocabulary Worksheet

Asymmetric digital subscriber line
A leased line that is rented from a telephone company.
A system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency signals transmitted through coaxial cables
Contains a group of computers that can be accessed and administered with a common set of rules.
A telephone connection in a system of many lines shared by many users.
The introduction page of a website
Digital Subscriber line
Hyper Texa standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on WWW pages.t Markup Language.
Defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.
A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities
A unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer using the Internet Protocol to communicate over a network.
Integrated Digital Services Network
A way of sending multiple signals or streams of information over a communications link at the same time in the form of a single, complex signal
A collection of computers, servers, mainframes, network devices, peripherals, or other devices connected to one another to allow the sharing of data.
Public Switch Telephone Network
A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used especially for finding particular sites on the WWW.
The page of a Web site that the user sees first before being given the option to continue to the main content of the site
The speed with which data can be transmitted from one device to another
Uniform Resource Locator. The address of a WWW page.
A software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the WWW
The process of creating web sites
A hypertext document connected to the WWW>
A location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the WWW.