Web Words
You see the familiar prefix in print and broadcast ads. You jot Web addresses in your day planner and on napkins. And, of course, you use the ever-expanding potpourri of Web resources for business and pleasure. But just how familiar are you with the Web vocabulary of the early 21st century? To find out, complete this 50-question quiz. Match each of the Web terms below with the brief definitions that
August 1, 2002
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You see the familiar “www” prefix in print and broadcast ads. You jot Web addresses in your day planner and on napkins. And, of course, you use the ever-expanding potpourri of Web resources for business and pleasure.
But just how familiar are you with the Web vocabulary of the early 21st century? To find out, complete this 50-question quiz. Match each of the Web terms below with the brief definitions that follow. Answers are at the end of the article.
A code-based technique for displaying multiple boxes on a Web page, each with distinct content and graphics.
Answer____Suffix of a Web address (.gov, .com, or .edu, for example) that indicates the host classification of the site.
Answer____List of often used or “favorite” sites, stored through a browser program.
Answer____Computer language that presents material in three-dimensional form.
Answer____Company that provides commercial access to the Internet.
Answer____Code that enables Web authoring software to accommodate interactive tools, such as fill-in-the-blank boxes.
Answer____Pieces of data sent over the Internet containing their address and content.
Answer____The first “page” or document typically viewed by a Web site visitor.
Answer____Powerful computer language frequently used on the Web.
Answer____Organization that coordinates and registers domain names.
Answer____Set of precise search instructions using mathematical or symbolic operators, such as “+,” “NOT,” and other expressions.
Answer____Visual items embedded in Web documents.
Answer____Software package allowing a user to view Web pages.
Answer____A menu-driven tool used to obtain information from the Internet in pre-Web days.
Answer____Internet code that allows people to talk with one another “live.”
Answer____A document placed on a Web site.
Answer____Sophisticated instructions given to a search engine specifying the relationship of search terms to each other.
Answer____Tiny file placed on a user's computer, often without his or her knowledge, which identifies the user's browser and Web destinations to a Web site owner.
Answer____Technology that quickly and flexibly reroutes Internet traffic in case of electronic barriers or overuse.
Answer____Type of program used to create and format content for the Web.
Answer____Sequence of behind-the-scenes computer code that solves a problem or executes a task, such as finding the right entries in a Web search.
Answer____Address, entered in a browser, which identifies and locates a Web site.
Answer____General term referring to patterns of dots used to create a web image.
Answer____A computer that holds the code for a Web site and manages all interactions with Web site visitors.
Answer____Popular code used to create and display visual images.
Answer____Behind-the-scenes selling costs minimized through technology.
Answer____A Web service that identifies sites of interest according to a subject term or criteria that a user specifies.
Answer____Graphic code used to create special effects.
Answer____Computer code that displays multimedia for Web site visitors.
Answer____Technology used to transmit Web pages and other data by radio signals.
Answer____A series of Web sites all focusing on the same subject matter and linked to each other in sequential order.
Answer____Popular visual format, often used to compress large, complex images on the Web.
Answer____Elements in computer code that instruct Web content to display properly.
Answer____Program that “surfs” the Web behind the scenes, collecting content information on behalf of search engines.
Answer____Programs that link a Web server with other programs, allowing site visitors to obtain automated responses or requests from information at the site.
Answer____Automatic delivery of Internet material to consumers, often initiated as the result of a request made at a Web site.
Answer____Term referring to near-instantaneous exchange of information, such as electronic communication, delivery of live photos, or a variety of other images.
Answer____General term describing user-friendly programs that enable Web site sponsors to create Web pages.
Answer____Seminar, entertainment or other event presented “live” on the Web.
Answer____Web site that lets users conveniently access other parts of the Web, often containing extra services such as weather data.
Answer____Host computer on the Internet.
Answer____Duplicate Web site that accommodates heavy traffic and user interaction.
Answer____Device that allows Web site sponsors to capture and transmit “live” visual images on their Web sites.
Answer____Code that enables computer users to retrieve Web pages.
Answer____Program that catalogued Internet sites prior to the emergence of the WWW.
Answer____Visual item on a Web page hyperlinked to other content or graphics, accessible by clicking.
Answer____Technology that enables Web site visitors to see continuous moving images even before the visitor's computer has accessed the entire Web file.
Answer____Software that enables a browser to display multi-media content it normally cannot support.
Answer____Web browser that displays text only.
Answer____System of security, consisting of hardware and software, that separates publicly accessible materials (such as Web pages on a server) from internal or private networks.
Answer____
The answers:
1 (l); 2 (i); 3 (q); 4 (tt); 5 (oo); 6 (k); 7 (cc); 8 (p); 9 (v); 10 (u); 11 (e); 12 (t); 13 (f); 14 (n); 15 (jj); 16 (dd); 17 (a); 18 (h); 19 (kk); 20 (r); 21 (b); 22 (ss); 23 (d); 24 (nn); 25 (o); 26 (m); 27 (mm); 28 (hh); 29 (pp); 30 (xx); 31 (ll); 32 (w); 33 (rr) 34 (x); 35 (g); 36 (gg); 37 (ii); 38 (ww); 39 (vv); 40 (ff); 41 (bb); 42 (aa); 43 (uu); 44 (z); 45 (c); 46 (s); 47 (qq) 48 (ee); 49 (y); 50 (j)
How familiar are you with Web vocabulary
(a) Adjacency Operators
(b) Algorithm
(c) Archie
(d) Bitmap
(e) Boolean Search
(f) Browser
(g) Common Gateway Interface
(h) Cookie
(i) Domain
(j) Firewall
(k) Forms
(l) Frame
(m) Friction-free Transaction
(n) Gopher
(o) Graphic Interchange Format
(p) Home Page
(q) Hotlist
(r) Hypertext Transfer Protocol
(s) Image Map
(t) In-line Image
(u) InterNiC
(v) Java
(w) Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
(x) Knowbot
(y) Line-Mode Brower
(z) Markup Language
(aa) Mirror Site
(bb) Node
(cc) Packets
(dd) Page
(ee) Plug-In
(ff) Portal
(gg) Push Technology
(hh) Ray Tracing
(ii) Real Time
(jj) Relay Chat
(kk) Rerouting
(ll) Ring
(mm) Search Engine
(nn) Server
(oo) Service Provider
(pp) Shockwave
(qq) Streaming
(rr) Tags
(ss) Uniform Resource Locator
(tt) Virtual Reality Modeling Language
(uu) Webcam
(vv) Webcast
(ww) Web Editor
(xx) Wireless Web
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