Mobile computing devices like smartphones and tablets have become popular because they allow users to access the internet and compute on the go without being tethered to a desktop. Web-based email has advantages like access from anywhere but can be slower than desktop email clients, which allow for more local storage and easier file manipulation but raise more privacy and security concerns. The internet connects hundreds of millions of computers worldwide through networks like LANs, WANs, and the World Wide Web. Web browsers allow users to view webpages by following links and entering URLs, with common features including back/forward buttons, bookmarks, and the address bar.

1. Unit 1 - Activity 2: I.C.T. Terminology
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Technology To Go: The Evolution of Mobile Communication
Mobile computing – The device is portable and capable of wireless comuncation.
WiFi – Wireless Fidelity
WAP – Wireless Access Point
PDA – Personal Digital Assistants
Why are mobile computing devices so popular?
Computing devices are so popular because like the article said they are no cables attached and you are
not attached to a desk anymore, so now you can rome freely with your device.
Sending Electronic Mail
What are some of the difference/advantages/disadvantages between web-based email and an e-mail
software that can be installed on your computer?
The benefits of having a software based email are, it is much faster than web based, storage is limited
by the size of hard drive, Email and attachments are easier to manipulate and finally there is less privacy
and security issues than webmail.
Networks
LAN – Local Area Network
Intranet – Is bigger than a LAN and it is a private network
WAN – Wide Area Network
Internet – Is an enormous network of somewhere between 350 and 500 million computers.
WWW – World Wide Web
Webpage – Is a single web document containing text, links, pictures, and other multimedia

2. Website – Is a collection of webpages, usually maintained by the same person or organization
Web Browser –Web browsers are software applications that transform information from the internet
into webpages that you can view on your own computer.
Here are some items (numbered from the picture above) that are common to web browsers:
Button Name Purpose Keyboard
Shortcut
1 Back This will take you to the previous page you've visited. ALT-left
2 Forward If you've gone back to a previous page, i.e., with the Back
button, this will bring you forward again to the page you
were using.
ALT-right
3 Stop This will stop any data from downloading from a webpage,
i.e., if it is taking too long to load, or if you visited the page
by mistake.
Esc
4 Refresh If data on a page is changing over time, hit refresh to load a
fresh version of that page.
F5 or CTRL-R
5 Home Return to your homepage. This is the default page that your
browser shows whenever you load it.
CTRL-Home
6 Favourites (Often
called bookmarks)
This opens up your list of bookmarks. (Website addresses
that you've saved so that you can visit them later).
Varies
according to
browser
7 URL This is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the webpage
that is currently being visited. URL basically means: web

3. page address. Any page on the World Wide
HTTP – Almost all URLs will start with HTTP://www. HTTP
stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol, which is a set of
rules that allows your own computer to ask for webpages
from other computers on the internet. WWW, as we've
already learned, stands for World Wide Web. In other
words, virtually every time you look at a web page, your
browser is using HTTP to view the WWW. The rest of the
URL tells you what specific page you're looking at.
8 The address bar Type the URL that you want to visit here, and then press
enter.
9 Links Links are typically underlined and/or a different colour than
regular text. If you click on a link, your browser will take you
to a new webpage indicated by that link.
When finished, pair up with a classmate and take the Jeopardy-style Quiz!