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| Central Processing Unit (CPU) | The brain of a computer converting data into electronic codes: calculates and transfers data |
| CD-ROM | data storage disc that holds more than a floppy but less than a DVD. |
| Cookies | files containing information about you that websites store on your hard drive |
| Depreciation | A decline in a products value because of wear and use or technological obsolescence |
| DVD-ROM | A data storage disc that holds much more data than a CD-ROM |
| Floppy Disk | A magnetic data storage disc stores less than CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs |
| Hard Drive | The computers main storage area for electronic data |
| Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) | Computer coding system that enables the use of graphics on the internet |
| internet | A worldwide network of millions of computer networks |
| internet service provider | Businesses that receive communications that direct to locations on the internet |
| laptop or notebook computers | Portable computers |
| microprocessors | Device within a computer's CPU that carries out the computing functions |
| modem | Hardware that enables computers to communicate over telephone lines |
| peripheral device | Any hardware connected to the CPU |
| Random Access Memory (RAM) | The computers main workspace |
| Spam | Unwanted advertising distributed through email |
| Technological obsolescence | New technology that makes products based on old technology out-of-date |
| Web browser | Program to search the Web for information with just the click of a mouse button |
| World Wide Web | Information retrieval system that organizes the internet's resources in a graphical fashion |
