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 Posted by Mrs. Forsythe at 9:10 AM

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

Vocabulary Word #7

WWW-World Wide Web-the web is the part of the Internet that consists of pages (documents) linked to each other around the world. These pages have pictures, sounds, and more