The Internet: It’s growing faster than we can manage to keep up. Penetrating our professional and personal lives, this tool brings the world to our fingertips with a click of a mouse or cell phone button. But with this increase in information also comes an influx of misinformation. Test your knowledge on what’s real and what’s not in the globe’s largest electronic world.

1. What does WWW stand for?                                                       VI

World Wacky Web
Wide World Wumpus
World Wide Web —-
Wide World of Why?

2. What does URL stand for?                                                          VIII

united route link
uniform resource locator —-
unknown redirection link
up real late

3. What is the name of the language you use to write a web page?          VIII

HTTP
FTP
URL
HTML —

4. Which of the following terms is a “browser”?                                       VII

yahoo—-
World Wide Web
Launcher
E-mail

5. All web addresses start with which of the following?                            VII

htp
http://—-
hts:/
xxx

6. A word that looks underlined on a web page is usually what?                         IX

an important word
the web address
a “link” to another web page—-
a mistake

7. Which region’s population uses the Internet most?                                           X

–Asia

North America

Europe

8. What percentage of Internet users are under the age of 25?                            XI

25 percent

–45 percent

78 percent

10.What’s considered the “backbone” of the World Wide Web?       IX

• Uniform resource locator (URL)
• Hypertext mark-up language (HTML)
• —Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)

11.What’s the best way to describe the Internet?                                                         VI

• One master computer that connects to all of our homes
• —-A network of networks
• A series of pipes
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            12. What is a spider?                                                                                     XI

A computer virus

constantly scan the Internet for new and updated Web sites

A hacker who breaks into corporate computer systems

An application for viewing Web sites

VIII