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| Web site | A connected group of pages on the World Wide Web regarded as a single entity, devoted to a single topic or several closely related topics. |
| Web page | A single, text document on the World Wide Web that can incorporate text, graphics, sounds; part of a web site. |
| URL | Universal, Resource, Locator) also called the web address. |
| Domain | The last two or three letters at the end of a web address which are an abbreviation for the type of location or source for a web site; (education - .edu / government - .gov / commercial - .com / Canada - .ca) |
| Ethics | A system of moral principles; rules of conduct showing respect to others |
| Bias | To have pre-judgment on an issue; to show favoritism towards a side on an issue; to only look at the facts favoring one side. |
| Netiquette | Being considerate, and respectful to other when chatting, blogging or instant messaging on the internet |
| Critic | A person who judges, evaluates, or criticizes |
| Freeware | Open- source software; software that can be downloaded and used for free |
| Shareware | Software that is created and shared over the internet to be used for a reasonable fee |
| Computer Virus | A computer program that is written to access your computer without your knowledge or permission. |
| Wiki | A collaborative Web site set up to allow user editing and adding of content |
| Web Blog | An online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; |
| Internet | A vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide; |
| World Wide Web | A system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet. Abbreviation: WWW |
| Plagiarism | The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. |
| SPAM | A disruptive, esp. commercial message posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail. [not an acronym] written spam -- slang name for Unsolicited Commercial Email. |
| Copyright | The exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.; Protected; |
| Objective | Not influenced by personal feelings or one side; examines all sides of an issue; |
| Internet Cookie | A message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page. |
