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- ARPANET
- The precursor to the Internet, ARPANET was a large wide-area network created by the United States Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA).
- Blog
- A website that allows its originator, or “blogger,†to express opinions and provide personal information to anyone who cares to read it; in many cases a report of news or an online diary.
- Browser
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Software that displays websites in a readable form. Clicking on a website’s URL (its unique address) will fetch it. (Internet Explorer was the leading browser at the time this was
written.)
- Hacker
- A computer user who breaks into websites and can alter their contents.
- Interactive television
- Broadcast transmission that permits each viewer some choice of what appears within a channel, such as a camera angle or even the direction a narrative takes.
- LISTSERV
- A discussion forum on a particular topic.
- Node
- A connecting point in a network.
- Podcast
- A blog with audio that follows a newscast format, sent to subscribers.
- Search engine
- Software that identifies and accesses websites that are on a requested topic.(Google was the leading search engine at the time this was written).
- Telecommuting
- Working, learning, or doing other activity from a home computer rather than physically traveling to a location, such as a workplace or school.
- Upstream
- Transmission from a viewer to a central content source.
- Usenet
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A “bulletin board†computer network, independent of the World Wide Web, mainly used
to connect users interested in specific topics. - Virus
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In computer communication, a malicious, self-replicating software program that infects
computers. Worms usually harm existing computer files. - Vlog
- A blog with video.
- Word processing
- The use of a computer to operate upon language text. It includes the creation, manipulation, and storage of text.
- Worm
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A malicious software program that travels across a computer network, and is able to replicate itself without human involvement. Unlike a virus, it does not have to hook onto another program. Worms harm networks.