Thursday, October 13, 2016

Vocab #6

Meme: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation.

Virus: In computers, a virus is a program or programming code that replicates by being copied or initiating its copying to another program, computer boot sector or document. Viruses can be transmitted as attachments to an e-mail note or in a downloaded file, or be present on a diskette or CD. 

 Viral: of the nature of, caused by, or 
relating to a virus or viruses.

Blog: a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style.

Wiki: a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.

U.R.L: URL is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator and is a reference (an address) to a resource on the Internet. A URL has two main components: Protocol identifier: For the URLhttp://example.com , the protocol identifier is http .

Website: a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.

WWW: The Web, or World Wide Web, is basically a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files

Internet: The global communication network that allows almost all computers worldwide to connect and exchange information. Some of the early impetus for such a network came from the U.S. government network Arpanet, starting in the 1960s.

2.0: used to denote a superior or more advanced version of an original concept, product, service, etc.

Open Source: denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
























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