Thursday, November 5, 2009

Learning About the Internet

Define the following terms in your own words:
1. Internet Service Provider
2. Modem
3. Search Engine

Finish the following sentences:

1. A URL that ends with '.org' belongs to a(n) ______________________.
2. The three parts of an email address are ___________ , ___________ & ____________.

17 comments:

  1. Internet Service Provider: An Internet service provider (ISP), also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the internet.

    Modem: electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line

    Search Engine: a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network.

    by melissaaaaaa

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  2. Internet service Provider: is a company that offers its customers access to the internet.
    Modem: is a device that modulates analog carrier signal to encode digital information.
    Search Engines: is a tool designed to search for information on world wide web.

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  3. Internet Service Provider:
    A company that provides access to the internet for other people. Usually for a monthly fee.
    Modem:
    A device that connects a computer to the internet using telephone or cable lines.
    Search Engine:
    A website or computer program that can search through large bodies of text, or web pages

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  4. Internet service provider-An Internet service provider , also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider , is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet.

    Modem -is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.

    Search Engine -A web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits.

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  5. Internet Service Provider: An internet Service Provider, also referred to Internet Access Provider, is a company that offers it’s customers access to the Internet.
    Modem: A Modem is a device that allows you to go onto the internet. It allows you to send and receive signal so you can connect to the internet.
    Search Engine: A Search Engine is a program that searches for your documents.

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  6. INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER: Is a company that offers it's customers access to the internet.

    MODEM:Is a device that moudlates an anolog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such ascarrier signal to decode the transmitted information.

    SEARCH ENGINE:Before there were web search engines there was a complete list of all webservers.

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  7. A modem is a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over, for example, telephone or cable lines
    ISPs employ a range of technologies to enable consumers to connect to their network.

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  8. Internet service provider is, a company that offers it’s customers access to the internet.

    A modem is , a device or program that enables a computer to transmite data over telephone or cable wires.
    Search Engine is, a tool designed to search for information on the world wide web.

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  9. 1. An Internet Service Provider is a company that furnishes corporations and individual consumers with various services, mainly access to the internet.
    2. A Modem is a device for transmitting usually digital data over telephone wires by modulating the data into an audio signal to send it and demodulating an audio signal into data to receive it.
    3. A Search Engine is a software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.




    Blake Giles :) :0

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  10. Internet service provider: is a company that offers its customers occess to the internet.

    Modem: a device that lets one computer connect to the internet using telephone cables.

    Serach engine: A software that searches for data

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  11. I forgot to add this:
    1. A URL that ends with .org belongs to an organization.
    2. The three parts of the an email address are the name, the domain and the extension.

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  12. a url that ends .org belongs to an website for all kinds of people to play all kinds of games that are intertaining.

    The three parts of a email address are a username,mailserver/computer name and parts of a email address.

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  13. Internet service provider: An Internet service provider (ISP), also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the internet.
    Modem: A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
    Search engine: A web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

    ~trinaaah =]

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  14. Something I Forgot to Include in my Paragraph Above:

    The .org was originally intended for a non-profit organizations of a non-commercial character.



    The three parts of a Email Address is:
    1.) the person's unique name on his/her email system.
    2.)The '@' Sign.
    3.)name of the computer/server the email system uses.

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  15. 1. A URL that ends with org. belongs to an organization.
    2. The three parts of an email address are the name, the domain, and the extension.

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  16. .ORG:was originally intended for non-profit organization, or organization of a non-commercial character.

    THREE PARTS OF AN E-MAIL ADRESS:Name, @, and Website

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  17. 1.A url that ends with org belongs to a non profit organizations.
    2.The three parts of a email adress are the username ,the @ symbal and the divedes the username.

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