|
Term |
Definition |
Ranking |
Example |
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Applications Software |
Programs that are written to do tasks that humans want to do. |
6 |
Tool Software |
|
Computer System |
Composed of hardware and software |
1 |
Living Books |
|
Disk Drives |
Store information magnetically and require some type of media |
9 |
Hard Drive |
|
|
Electronic mail |
13 |
Azgoda@students.csm.edu |
|
Hardware |
Part of the computer system is the metal, plastic and silicon. |
15 |
Basic keyboard |
|
Home Page |
The first page of a web site |
5 |
|
|
HTML |
Hyper text markup language, special used to communicate on the WWW |
3 |
Database.html |
|
Input/output |
What you use to get information from the computer |
11 |
Ink jet |
|
Internet |
Network of networks made up of thousands of education, government, business and community networks sharing information. |
7 |
AOL |
|
ISP |
Internet service provider |
4 |
Netscape |
|
Keyboard |
Most common input device. |
15 |
Basic keyboard |
|
Modem |
A communications device that lets you communicates with other computers. |
10 |
Internet |
|
Operating System |
Acts a visible interface between the user and the computer. |
8 |
MS_DOS |
|
Web site |
Special kind of publication of information on the web |
12 |
Csm.edu |
|
World Wide Web |
Hypertext info retrieval system that navigates databases on the Internet |
2 |
Weather.com |