Common Terms used in Internet

 

What is webpage?
Ans: Webpage is an electronic document written using a computer language which contain information about any person ,organization, etc is called HTML.

What is website?
Ans: Website is a collection of web pages that can be published by an organization or individual. It contains home page and other sub pages.

What is upload?
Ans: Upload refers to copying files or documents or programs or data from the user’s computer to the internet.

What is download?
Ans: Downloading refers to copying files or documents or programs or data from the internet server to the user’s computer.

What is web browser?
Ans: Web browser is a computer program that access web pages and displays them on the user computer. Examples of web browsers are Mozilla firefox, google chrome, internet explorer, opera etc.

What is URL?
Ans: URL is a unique address that provides location of a webpage on the internet.

Example of URL: http://www.abc.com/mainpage/first.html

http: protocol, www.abc.com: server name, mainpage: path, first.html: filename

What is browsing/ surfing?
Ans: Browsing means searching information on the internet.

What is search engine?
Ans: Search engine is the website that allows the user to search the information based on keywords on combination of keywords. They are used to locate specific sites and information. Examples of search engines are google, bing, ask.com, yahoo etc

What is a blog?

Ans: A blog is a time-stamped online journal that appears on a website.

A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. It is a place to express yourself to the world. A place to share your thoughts and your passions.

Blog is a short form for the word weblog and the two words are used interchangeably

What is Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)?

 Ans: Wi-Fi is the name of a popular wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connections.    

                                                                                                                                    

What is ISP?
Ans: An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing and using the Internet.

The ISP of Nepal are Mercantile, World Link, Broadlink, Subisu, Classic Tech etc.

What is ISDN?
Ans: It is a high speed digital communication network evolving from existing telephony Integrated Digital Network (IDN) which provides end to end digital connectivity to support a wide range of services, including voice and non-voice service.

What is intranet?

Ans: An intranet is a private computer network that uses the internet protocol to securely share any part of information of an organization.

What is extranet?

Ans: An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from outside for specific business or educational purposes.

What is E-fax?

E-fax is the service of the internet through which a user can send and receive faxes(documents or graphics) directly from a computer to another computer.

What is WWW?

Ans: The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where

documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs),

interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet 

What is Domain Name System?

Ans:  Domain Name System is an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. 

What is HTTP?

Ans: HTTP is a protocol used by the WWW to establish client and server interactions.

Differentiate between video conference and chatting.

Ans:The differences between video conference and chatting are:

          

Video conference	Chatting
It is a service that provides visual communication of parties around the world.	It is a service used to make communication by reading, ignoring and replying the message.
It requires necessary hardware and software to see and speak to each other.	It uses the browser software without using special chat software.
It communicates sounds as well as pictures.	It communicates only text.

Differentiate between e-mail and e-fax.

Ans:The differences between e-mail and e-fax are:

           

E-mail	E-fax
It is a service of internet that allows sending and receiving mails.	It is a service of internet that allows sendind and receiving faxes directly on computer.
E-mail can be sent using a computer with modem, e-mail program and internet facility.	E-fax can be sent using a computer with modem, e-fax program and internet facility.
It is the soft copy service of the internet.	It is the hard copy service of the internet.

Differentiate between chat and e-mail.

Ans:The differences between chat and e-mail are:

              

Chat	E-mail
It enables us to send and receive instant messages.	It doesn’t enable us to receive and send instant messages.
To use chat services, we should have a chat program like Yahoo Messenger, etc.	To use e-mail service, we should have email program like Microsoft Outlook, Euroda etc.
It can be done only when both sender and receiver are physically present on the line.	It can be done even when the both sender and receiver are not present physically on the line.