BCT 2.00 Technology Issues
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- Hacking
- Invading someone else's computer
- Search engine
- Tool that helps you locate information on the Internet (i.e. Yahoo, Google, Altavista)
- trojan horse
- computer virus that is a trick - it does something different from what it is expected to do
- Distance learning
- using technology for schooling or learning
- Universal Resource Locator
- Another name for the website address
- Boolean operators
- AND, NOT, OR
- browser
- software program that allows you to retrieve documents from the world wide web (i.e. Internet Explorer, Firefox)
- Piracy
- Illegally copying and using software (black market or bootleg)
- modem
- device that connects the computer to the Internet
- Shareware
- software you can use or try out for free for a certain period of time
- Electronic commerce (aka E-Commerce)
- buying and selling products through the Internet
- Logic bomb
- Virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of data
- virtual reality
- artificial environment where you wear a helmet to participate in an environment that seems real
- Computer crime
- criminal act that is committed through the use of a computer.
- Hyperlink
- area on a webpage, when lighted and clicked on, will take you to another loction on the web
- HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (defines how messages are formatted)
- time bomb
- computer virus that causes damage at a certain date
- HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language (tags used in a text document)
- ARPANET
- Original name of the Internet
- Anti-virus software
- software program to protect computers from a virus
- Wildcard
- * Symbol, called an asterisk - used when you do not know the spelling of a word
- WWW
- world wide web
- genetic engineering
- The science of DNA (blood type) and genetics
- Ethics
- good moral conduct (making a good decision between right and wrong)
- public domain
- software given to anyone at no cost
- worm
- computer virus that makes copies of itself and slows down or halts the computer
- artificial intelligence
- processing information on its own without human intervention
- Multimedia
- Used to locate graphics, video clips, animation, and MP3 files
- Integration
- combine one software program with another software program (HINT: combine a spreadsheet chart with a powerpoint)