This document defines key computer technical vocabulary terms in 3 sentences or less including: Acrobat is an Adobe program used to view documents in their original format and works with PDF files. Search engines like Google and Yahoo receive search requests, compare them to database entries, and return results. A CPU is the central processing unit that contains logic circuits to perform computer instructions.

1. COMPUTER TECHNICAL
VOCABULARY
Acrobat: Adobe program to capture and view documents in their original
appearance. Acrobat work with PDF files.
Banner: A graphic, usually rectangular, which is inserted into a web page. May
have advertising purposes.
Search: search engine. Is a program located on an Internet site, which receives a
search request, compares it to the entries in your database and returns the result.
Some of the best known: Yahoo, Google, Altavista, Lycos, Infoseek.
Cable-modem: modem that connects a computer to the Internet at high speed,
through a cable TV line.
CD-ROM: Compact Disk - Read Only Memory. Compact disc read-only. It has a
storage capacity of up to 650 megabytes, much greater than a diskette.
CPU: Central Processing Unit. Is the processor that contains the logic circuits that
perform the instructions on the computer.
Domain: set of characters that identifies the address of a website.
Download: Transfer of information from the Internet to a computer.
Font: full variety of printed characters of a certain style.
Freeware: Software of distributed free and is totally free.
Gateway: door; access; gateway. Point link between two networks.
Worm: A program that copies itself to fill the entire memory. A virus that usually
arrive via e-mail as attachment.
Hypertext: text linked together. Clicking the mouse the user moves from one text
to another, linked with the former.
HTML: Hyper Text Mark-up Language. Programming language to build web pages.
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A protocol for transferring information in text
files, graphics, video, audio and other multimedia resources.

2. Image map: image of a website that allows different areas to click on to access the
different destinations.
Intranet: Network of networks of a company. Its appearance is similar to Internet
pages.
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group: name of the committee that designed a
standard for image compression.
Link: Image or text highlighted by underline or color, which leads to another
section of the document or to another website.
Website: One of the pages that make up a site on the World Wide Web. A website
brings together a set of related pages. A home page is called "home page".