Vocabulary Word #20

Binary means "two," or "base two." The binary system is a way of counting using just the two numbers 0 and 1.

Vocabulary Word #19

virus- is a computer program that was written to purposely damage computer systems.

Vocabulary Word #18

megabyte-is a unit of measure equal to 1,048,576 bytes, which is about a million bytes.

Vocabulary Word #17

Gigabyte: is a unit of measure equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is about one billion bytes

Vocabulary Word #16

HTML:is known as "the language of the Web," is the set of codes used to make Web pages.

Vocabulary "Word #15

Chat: is a way people in different places can "talk" to each other by typing their words into a computer.

Vocabulary Word #14

Cursor: A blinking line or shape on the screen that tells you where the next character will go.

Vocabulary Word #13

Download: to download a file is to get it from someone else's computer, over a network, and save it on your own computer

Vocabulary Word #12

Software- is all programs that run on your computer

Vocabulary Word #11

URL-is the address of a website on the World Wide Web

Vocabulary Word #10

e-mail- is a way of sending messages from one computer to another

Vocabulary Word #9

Internet-millions of computers around the world connected to each other.

Vocabulary Word #8

hard drive- is a round, metal platter in the hard drive of the computer; it stores large amounts of information.