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| Address bar | Contains the URL or address of the active Web page. Where you type the location for the Web page you want to visit. |
| Address book | Where you keep a list of your e-mail contacts. |
| Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Computer science field/computers/giving them characteristics/human intelligences. Being able understand natural language & reason under uncertain conditions. |
| Biometric security measures | Using fingerprints, voice patterns, the iris or retina of eye. This security is used when high-level security is required. Employees fingerprints, voice or eyes matched for security. |
| Bookmark | Site or location that you have specifically marked so you can locate it again. |
| Boolean logic | Another way that you can search databases. This works on a similar principle as search engine math, but has a little more power. Consists of three Boolean operators: AND, NOT, and OR. |
| Browser | Software program that you use to retrieve documents from World Wide Web. |
| Computer-based learning | Using a computer as a tutor. |
| Computer crimes | A criminal act that is committed through the use of a computer, like getting into someone else's system and changing information or creating a computer virus and causing it to damage information on other's computers. It can involve the theft of a computer and any equipment associated with the computer. |
| Computer fraud | Conduct that involves the manipulation of a computer or computer data in order to dishonestly obtain money, property or value, or to cause loss.Includes stealing money from bank accounts and stealing information from other persons' computers for gain. |
| Digital Cash | Allows someone to pay by transmitting a number between computers. The digital cash numbers are issued by a bank and represent a specified sum of real money; each number is unique. |
| Distance learning | Using technology as a medium for schooling or learning. |
| Domain name | The portion of a website name that identifies the type of site. |
| Electronic commerce | Having an on-line business. |
| Electronic mail | Send a message from one person's computer to another person's computer, stored until read. |
| File transfer protocol | Internet standard that allows users to download & upload files with other computers on the Internet. |
| Hacking | Involves invading someone elses's computer, usually for personal gain or just the satisfaction of being able to invade someone else's computer. People who do this are usually computer experts who enjoy having the power to invade someone else's privacy. |
| History | A display of a record of all the sites you visited in the last 20 days. |
| Hits | The number of returns on your keywords during a search on the web. |
| Home page | The first page that's displayed when you launch your browser. |
| Hyperlinks | When click on this area, taken to another place on the web. |
| Hypertext markup language | This text based program is used to create documents for the WWW. |
| Keywords | Describes the information you are trying to locate while searching for data on the web. |
| Logic bomb | Computer virus which is triggered by the appearance of specified data. |
| Math symbols | One key symbol used to abbreviate words such as and/or. You can use math symbols in a search on the web to help focus the search. You can use these in a search on the web to help focus the search. |
| Newsgroup | A discussion forum or a type of bulletin board. Each "board" is dedicated to discussion on a particular topic. |
| Protocols | A standard format for transferring data between two devices. TCP/IP is the agreed upon international standard for transmitting data. |
| Related search | Pre-programmed queries or questions suggested by the search engines. This can dramatically improve your odds of finding the information you are seeking. |
| Search engine | Another Internet tool to help you locate information on the Internet. |
| Shareware | Software you can use for free for a specified period to try it out. If you decide that you like it and it meets your needs, you are supposed to pay for it. |
| Simulation | Models a real-world activity. |
| Software piracy | Illegal copying and using software. |
| Spider | A search engine robot that searches the Internet for the keywords. It feeds the pages it finds to the search engine.It is called this because it crawls the Web continually examining Web sites finding and looking for links. |
| Subject directories | A method for searching for information on the WWW. |
| Time bomb | Computer virus that does not cause damage until a certain date. Computer virus that does not cause damage until the system has been booted a certain number of times. |
| Trojan horse | Computer virus that does something different from what it is expected to do. This may look like it is doing one thing while in actuality it is doing something quite opposite (usually disastrous). |
| Toolbar | Area in the screen where icons of commonly used commands are displayed. |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator. Also known as the web site address. |
| Usenet | Worldwide network of computers that facilitates the transmission of messages among news servers. |
| Virtual reality | An artificial environment that appears to feel like a real environment. |
| WebQuest | A type of activity that uses the Internet for investigation and problem solving. |
| Web server | Displays Web pages and renders them into final form so that they can be viewed by anyone with an Internet connection and Web browser. |
| Wildcard character | The * symbol or asterisk is considered a wildcard character. Use this if you don't know the spelling of a word or you want to search plurals or variations of a word. |
| World Wide Web | Subset or application makes use of Internet. The Internet can exist without the Web, but the Web cannot exist without the Internet. |
| Worm | A type of computer virus that makes many copies of itself resulting in the consumption of system resources slows down or actually halt tasks. |
