1. The Internet was originally called ARPANET.

2. The World-Wide Web is a hypertext-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 modem which will operate at 56,000 bps (Baud Per Second)

4. Higher WWW access speeds can be obtained by using an Integrated Services Digital Network.

5. ISDN is a digital telephone service available on a dedicated line and offering channels that operate at a minimum of 64,000 bps.

6. An email address has a domain name. Well-known domains include:
com = commercial
edu = education
org = organizations
mil = military
net = networks
gov = government

7. In an email message the signature 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 smile, ;-) = a wink, :-( = a frown

9. Items posted to a newsgroup are called articles. Responses to articles are called threads.

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

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

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

13. ADSL is the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line that your local phone company would like you to use for videoconferencing.

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

15. TCP/IP is: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - an agreed method for sending and recieving messages among many different computers and systems.

16. FTP is File Transfer Protocol . FTP makes it possible for you to obtain a wide variety of files and programs from the Internet.

17. LAN is an acronym for Local Area Network.

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

19. http means hypertext transfer protocol.

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