Technology Terms Match the technology terms with their definitions Tools A B cursor a blinking line or shape that tells you where the next character will go. mouse most popular pointing device. software the programs that run on a computer disk drive the part of the computer that operates the disks that store information hard drive a lorage round metal platter in the drive of the computer that stores large amounts of information floppy disk a floppy piece of plastic in a square cover that stores information CD-Rom round portable disks that sotre large amounts of information. Read only memory. CPU Central processing unit,or processor, a chip that is the brains of the computer e-mail a way of sending messages from one computer to another icon a tiny picture on the screen that represents a program or a folder network a number of computers connected together to share information and hardware peripheral a harware device that is connected to a computer, usually by a cable pixel a tiny dot of light on the monitor. scanner a device that takes a picture of something and turns it into a computerized image URL Uniform Resource Locator,the address of a website on the world wide web. World Wide Web part of the internet that consists of pages linked to each other around the world. browser a software program that lets you explore the World Widce Web to find text, graphics, sound, movies and more. backup an extra copy of a document, file or program. Cell the box where a column and a row intersect in a spreadsheet database an organized collection of information, that you can sort search and analyze rapidly field in a database, it holds exactly one type of information about an item or subject HTML Hyper Text Markup Language, the set of codes used to make web pages memory temporary storage space on chips in your computer modem a device that links computers througha telephone line spreadsheet a document which helps you organize data in rows and columns of cells binary a counting system that uses just the two numbers 0 and 1 bit an electronic signal which is either on (1) or off (0). It is the smallest unit of information the computer uses byte a group of 8 bits strung together RAM random access memory, temporary storage space on a computer.