Proud

Pretty proud of myself for making up the definitions for these acronyms off the top of my head.  Thank you to my geeky IT husband who casually converses with me about said topics like I am interested in knowing about it, but hey... it stuck.

11.) State what the following acronyms stand for, and briefly explain each.

a. TCP/IP- Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol- set of rules that allows computers to use data transmitted on the internet

b. LAN: Local Area network- group of computers physically near each other that are connected in a network.

c. WAN: Wide area network- can either be a larger LAN (say cover the size of a city) or reference the Internet as a whole

d. DSL: Digital subscriber line- internet connection that connects through traditional phone lines

e. WWW: World wide web- a world wide network that connects computers together

f. URL: Universal Resource Locator- web address

g. HTML: Hypertext Markup Language- the fundamental coding scheme that is used to encode webpages

h. ISP: Internet Service Provider- company that provides internet to customers (there are many companies)