Great Geek Speak Showdown

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Great Geek Speak Showdown
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Whats a modem?

• A modem modulates and demodulates info between
  your computer, which is digital and works with
  info thats in concrete, countable chunks (like
  ice cubes), and the phone lines, which are analog
  and work with info thats infinite, flowing,
  uncountable (like water).
• A modem turns digital info from your computer
  into analog info so it can go over the phone
  lines the modem on the other end turns the
  analog info back into digital info so the other
  computer can understand it.

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What are 2 types of high-speed connections?

• satellite
• cable
• T1 and T3 lines
• DSL
• ISDN
• and variations of those

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How does bandwidth (speed) affect the time it
takes images to load on your computer?

• The faster the modem or high-speed connection,
  the more information your computer can process at
  one time and the faster it will load text,
  graphics and multimedia.

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Acceptable download times

• It depends.
• A modem user may wait 20 minutes for movie video
  trailer but not more than 10 seconds for
  corporate contact info.
• Another important consideration is technological
  limitations of your audience. Fortune 500 CEOs
  will probably have faster access times than high
  school teachers using shared connections and old
  modems.

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What 2 culprits can make download times long?

• Computer viruses
• Heavy traffic (after 9/11)
• Too many images
• Images too big
• Bloated page codehuge, poorly coded tables and
  forms can slow download times

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Whats an ISP?

• Internet Service Provider
• If youre not a member of an online service like
  AOL, you can get a direct connection through an
  ISP, which has a computer connected to the
  Internet 24 hours a day, usually with a
  high-speed connection.
• Pay a fee.

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Whats the worlds largest commercial online
service?

• AOL, founded in 1992. How many free disks do you
  have?!?

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Whats a server?

• Server a computer connected to the Internet
  that sends (or serves) files to other computers
  that request them 24 hours a day
• Can any computer be a server?
• Yes, but most organizations have a juiced-up
  computer dedicated to serving Web sites.
• When we finish the Cronkite zine, well post it
  to the Cronkite server.

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Whats a browser?

• browser software that enables you to see Web
  pages
• What are examples of browsers?
• Netscape, IE, Safari, Firefox

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Whats the difference between a Web site and a
home page?

• Web site collection of related pages
• home page main page (usually first page) that
  serves as a table of contents

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What does URL mean?

• URL Uniform Resource Locator
• Internet address used to locate sites on the
  Internet, much like your street address locates
  where you live

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Do you need www in a Web address?

• Nope its just a convention that stands for
  World Wide Web.
• Some sites wont load, however, unless you type
  in www.
• Other sites, such as Cronkite zine
  (http//cronkitezine.asu.edu), wont work if you
  include www.

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Whats a domain name?

• domain name unique name given to an Internet
  address, including type of site, such as .edu
  (education), .gov (government), .org
  (organization) or .com (commercial)
• http//www.chicagotribune.com
• name of og. commercial
  site
• Parts of the address are separated by dots.

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Whats the address after the domain name called?

• Path tells the browser where to find the page
• http//www.asu.edu/cronkite/journalism.html
• http hypertext transfer protocol
• asu.edu domain name
• cronkite/journalism.html path
• First slash tells browser to look inside asu.edu
  folder for a folder or file called cronkite.
• Second slash tells browser to look inside
  cronkite folder for a file called journalism.html.

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What does HTML stand for?

• Hypertext Markup Language
• What does HTML allow you to do?
• Simple, universal code allows you to create
  complex pages of text and images that can be
  viewed on the Web, regardless of the type of
  computer or browser

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What are megabytes?

• One million bytes of data storage
• Mega means million (Remember the m in
  both!)

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What are gigabytes?

• One billion bytes of data storage
• Giga means billion

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What are the 2 formats for saving digital
graphics?

• GIF Graphics Interchange Format
• Remember the G for Graphics
• Best for drawings, cartoons and stuff with
  limited colors
• JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
• Pronounced JAY-peg
• Remember the P for Photographic
• Best for photos and stuff with lots of colors
• Also known as JPG
• You dont need to remember what GIF and JPEG
  stand for, just what theyre best used for

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What are 2 common formats for digital audio?

• WAV Waveform Audio File Format
• MP3
• You dont need to remember what WAV stands for,
  just what its used for (digital audio)

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What are 2 high-quality formats for digital video?

• .mov Quicktime
• MPEG4 Motion Picture Experts Group
• You dont need to remember what MPEG stands for,
  just what its used for (digital video)

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Why do you use the 6-digit hex number?

• To create a specific color

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What does cross-platform mean?

• A computer language, software application or
  piece of hardware that works on more than one
  platform, such as Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows
  or Macintosh

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Which HTML section contains the content displayed
in the browser?

• visible content on web page
• brains

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Whats the difference between paragraph break
in HTML?

• Paragraph space between the lines
• Blah blah blah
• Break no space between the lines
• 
  Blah blah blah
  

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Whats the HTML code for the largest heading?

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Whats the HTML code for a horizontal rule?

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Whats the HTML code for centering something?

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Is this correct? If not, how would you fix it?

• Big Boy tomato

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• The End

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Whats the difference between external and
internal links?

• External (remote) links connect your Web page to
  Web pages outside your site. You need to include
  the complete URL, such as http//www.asu.edu.
• Internal links connect to other pages inside the
  same Web site.

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Whats an anchor?

• An anchor generally jumps the user somewhere else
  in the same Web page, such as Jump to top at the
  bottom of a long page.
• An anchor can also jump the user to a specific
  place on another Web page.

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What do tables enable you to do?

• Align things in columns and rows.
• If you dont want the border to show around your
  table, what should the border amount be?
• 0

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Whats the difference between absolute and
relative table widths?

• If you choose an absolute pixel width, such as
  400, your table will remain that exact size no
  matter how a visitor changes the size of the
  browser window.
• If you choose a relative percent, then the table
  will resize according to the size of the browser
  window.
• You usually set absolute values for the width of
  tables.

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What does http mean?

• http hypertext transfer protocol, a system of
  rules that computers on the World Wide Web use to
  transfer HTML documents
• hypertext links that connect you to other pages
  when you click on them
• All HTML documents on the Web start with http in
  lower case.
• You dont need to type in http//

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Whats a plug-in?

• plug-in software-based enhancements that do
  cool things many come with your browser software
• Examples of plug-ins Shockwave, PDF,
  RealAudio
• What do you see on your screen if a plug-in is
  missing?
• A broken icon

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What are bits?

• Smallest unit of data transmitted on computers
• Each bit has a value of 0 (off) or 1 (on)

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What are bytes?

• String of eight bits, the unit of data needed to
  store one character
• A byte to make the letter A requires the eight
  digits 01000001

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Whats streaming?

• Users can start to listen to audio file or watch
  a video while its downloading
• RealAudio is most popular streaming format for
  audio
• MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) can
  play music in HTML through small synthesizers
  built into most sound cards

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What does WYSIWYG mean?

• What you see is what you get
• In Dreamweaver, for example, you see the elements
  as you arrange them on the page because the
  program creates the HTML coding