To check your understanding of the information in this unit, try to complete the following sentences and answer the questions. Click the print button on the left to print out this test.

1. The Internet was originally called _____________.

2. The World-Wide Web is a ______________-based process that put Internet information on to linked pages accessible at the click of a mouse button,

3. To acces the Internet one needs a ___________which will operate at 56,000 bps (Baud Per Second)

4. Higher WWW access speeds can be obtained by using an____________ _____________________________ Network.

5. ISDN is a digital telephone service available on a dedicated line and offering channels that operate at a minimum of ____________bps.

6. An email address has a domain name. Well-known domains include:
com = ______________
edu =_______________
org = _______________
mil = _______________
net = _______________
gov = _______________

7. In an email message the ________________ is a piece of text that goes at the bottom of a message. It usually comprises the sender’s phone and fax number.

8. :-) = a _______ ;-) = a _______:-( = a _______

9. Items posted to a newsgroup are called __________ Responses to articles are called ___________ .

10. Newsgroups are managed by servers using a protocol called _____________ .

11. Chat lines may be very significant to instructional designers. Operating in real-time on a process called ________________________ .

12. A rapidly developing form of chat line by which participants can actually talk with each other via their computers, uses a process called __________________.

13. ADSL is the ________________ _______________ ____________ ________that your local phone company would like you to use for videoconferencing.

14. Two-way cable is the system that combines __________ and ___________ cables and would integrate your computer with your TV set.

15. TCP/IP is: ___________ _____________ ______________ / _____________ __________ an agreed method for sending and recieving messages among many different computers and systems.

16. FTP is ________ ___________ ____________ FTP makes it possible for you to obtain a wide variety of files and programs from the ______________.

17. LAN is an acronym for _________ _________ ___________.

18. In a a LAN computers are referred to ___________ _____________and the one computer among them that actually contains all the software they use and distributes it to each of them is the _____________.

19. http means ______________ ______________ _______________.

20. The program that enables one computer to communicate with another computer is called ____________.