Digital Age Meraphors

: Short for Web-based seminar, a presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web.

: Worms spread from computer to computer, but unlike a virus, they have the capability to travel without any human action.

: Written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.

: A document on the World Wide Web.

: The Microsoft operating system, or the rectangular display frames which the Microsoft system uses.

: A virus attaches itself to a program or file enabling it to spread from one computer to another, leaving infections as it travels. Like a human virus, a computer virus can range in severity.

: The Trojan Horse, at first glance will appear to be useful software but will actually do damage once installed or run on your computer.  Those on the receiving end of a Trojan Horse are usually tricked into opening it because they appear to be receiving legitimate software or files from a legitimate source.

: An energy-saving mode of operation in which all unnecessary components are shut down.

: The people accessing a website.

: A personal computer connected to a mainframe.

: A command inserted in a document that specifies how the document, or a portion of the document, should be formatted.

: A graphic representation (like the tab on a physical folder) marking another web page.

: Coined by Jean Armour Polly in 1992, the term “surfing” is generally used to describe a rather undirected type of Web browsing in which the user jumps from page to page rather whimsically, as opposed to searching for specific information. The term “surfing” imagines this act as liberating, surfacial/superficial, and dangerous. Polly (ironically and importantly, a librarian), first used the term in an essay instructing parents on how to safely introduce children to the Internet. Danger and play are inextricable in this concept.

: Any software that covertly gathers user information through the user’s Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes.

: Electronic junk mail.

: The individual, graphic frames of a sequential presentation.

: File for product identifications chosen for purchase.

: A computer or device on a network that manages network resources.

: Programs that search documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.

: Web Scraping refers to an application that processes the HTML of a Web page to extract data for manipulation such as converting the Web page to another format.

: To execute a program.

: To respond to an email.

: File for deleted material.

: A Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as email, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls.

: The set of available colors.