Alt+Tab
B. Ctrl+C
C. Del
D. Shift
15. What are search operators when referring to search engines?
A. Symbols that can be added to searches to help narrow down your results
B. Quotes that can be added to searches to help narrow down your results
C. Mathematical functions that can be added to searches to help narrow down your results
D. Words that can be added to searches to help narrow down your results
Answers to Assessment Test
IC3 – Module 3: Living Online
1. C. WWW is an abbreviation for World Wide Web.
2. B. The Web, or the World Wide Web, is a system of websites connected by links.
3. D. http://www.microsoft.com/ is an example of a URL.
4. A. Internet Explorer is a web browser.
5. B. You can set a website as a favorite and create a link that you can use to access it quickly later on.
6. A. LAN is an abbreviation for local area network.
7. D. The Internet is an example of a WAN.
8. A. The ping tool allows you to test the connection between two devices on the network.
9. D. [email protected] is an example of an email address.
10. C. Skype is an example of an application that can be used for both audio- and videoconferencing.
11. B. Facebook is a social network.
12. D. ☹ is an emoticon.
13. A. Piracy is the whole phenomenon of copyright infringement.
14. C. Del or Delete is the keyboard shortcut for deleting files.
15. D. Search operators are words that can be added to searches to help narrow down your results.
Chapter 1
Using the Internet
THE FOLLOWING IC3 GS4: LIVING ONLINE EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
✓ Browsers
✓ Internet vs. Browsers vs. WWW
■ Explain the concepts of: Internet, Browsers, WWW.
■ Explain the differences between: Internet, Browsers, WWW.
■ Demonstrate how to use each: Internet, Browsers, WWW.
✓ Navigation
■ Domains
■ Explain how hyperlinks function in a web browser environment.
■ Demonstrate how and why you would want to set a homepage.
■ Demonstrate how to move back, forward and refresh in a variety of browsers. Identify universal symbols used for each term.
■ Explain why favorites/bookmarks are helpful. Describe how to establish, save, invoke, and delete a bookmark.
■ Explain what a plugin is and its function. Describe how to find, install, configure, use, disable, enable, and delete a plugin.
■ Explain how the History function of a browser works and how to use it. Describe how to clear history.
■ Demonstrate how to search using an internet browser, including the use of advanced features such as using basic Boolean logic including, Or, And, plus sign +, quotation marks “, etc.
■ Tabs
■ Downloading/Uploading
The Web is such an important part of our lives that everyone should know the basics of browsing the Web. That’s why we will share things like how to use web browsers, the basics of navigating the Web, downloading and uploading files, and setting a homepage in your web browser.
Toward the end of this chapter we will take a deeper dive and cover more complex subjects like how to use and clear your browsing history, how to use favorites or bookmarks, how to search for text inside a web page from your web browser, and how to use plug-ins and add-ons to enhance your web-browsing experience.
There is a lot of ground to cover, so let’s get started.
Understanding the Terminology about the Internet and the WWW
Everyone has heard the term Internet, but even though we use it on a daily basis, not that many of us know what this word means. The Internet is a global network of interconnected networks that use standardized communication protocols – a set of rules that specify how data is transmitted – to exchange data. It operates without being governed by any entity, and each network that is part of the Internet joins it voluntarily while remaining autonomous from other networks. To put it more simply, the Internet is the physical network of computers and devices (smartphones, tablets, and the like) all over the world.
The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust communication using computer networks known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). The term Internet was first used in December 1974, and the Internet, as a global network of networks, was fully commercialized in the United States by 1995. It started a rapid expansion to Europe and Australia in the mid- to late 1980s and to Asia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. There is no consensus on the exact date when the modern Internet came into being, but most specialists agree that it started to exist in the early to mid-1980s.
According to the UN’s International Telecommunication Union, in 2014 the world’s Internet users surpassed 3 billion or 43.6 percent of the world’s population. By region, 42 percent of the world’s Internet users were based in Asia, 24 percent in Europe, 14 percent in North America, 10 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean taken together, 6 percent in Africa, 3 percent in the Middle East, and 1 percent in Australia/Oceania.
One of the most frequent mistakes we all make is that when we think of the Internet, the first thing we think about is the World Wide Web (WWW). The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used interchangeably, but they’re actually not the same thing. The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW, commonly known as the Web) is a system of websites connected by links. Websites are stored on servers on the Internet, and the WWW is a part of the Internet but not the whole of Internet.
