CP102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Cyberbullying, Geolocation, Top-Level Domain
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Software that lets you navigate the web, most browsers today are graphical browsers. Tabbed browsing (load multiple pages in 1 browser window) Pinned tabs (pin sites to the favourites bar) Tear-off tabs (tab can be made into a new window) Thumbnail previews (browsers provide previews of websites) Ta(cid:271) isolatio(cid:374) (cid:894)ta(cid:271)s are i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t, do(cid:374)"t all (cid:272)rash(cid:895) Add-ons and extensions (things that help the browser experience) Uniform resource locator, the unique website address, ex. google. com. The url is comprised of a protocol, domain name, and path/subdirectory; ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, you do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to type it all in. The internet protocol suite: a group of protocols that govern how info is exchanged on a network. File transfer protocol (ftp) originally made to transfer files from computer to web server, now can be used to upload/download large files. Do(cid:373)ai(cid:374) (cid:374)a(cid:373)es ide(cid:374)tify the site"s host (cid:894)lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) that keeps the (cid:272)o(cid:373)puters that store the (cid:449)e(cid:271)site files(cid:895) Top level domain: the words after the dot ex.
