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=Welcome to Alyssa's wikispace. ﻿ = Quiz Yourself 2-1 Instructions: Find the true statement below. Then rewrite the remaining false statements so that they are true. 1. **An access provider is a business that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet free or for a fee.** 2. __An IP address__ is a number that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the Internet. 3__. A domain name__, such as [|www.google.com], is the text version of __an IP address.__ 4. Satellite Internet service provides high-speed Internet access __via high-speed broadband Internet service.__ 5. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) oversees research and __sets guidelines and standards__**.**

Quiz Yourself 2-2 Instructions: Find the true statement below. Then rewrite the remaining false statements so that they are true. 2. You can __not__ assume that information on the Web is correct and accurate. 3. __Audio__ files are downloaded to reduce their file sizes. 4. Popular __plug-ins__ include iTunes, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Player. 5. The more widely used __web browsers__ for personal computers are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome. 6. To develop a Web page, you __don't__ have to be a computer programmer. 7. To improve your Web searches, use general nouns and put the least important terms __last__ in the search text.
 * 1. A blog is a Web site that uses a regularly updated journal format to reflect the interests, opinions, and personalities of the author and sometimes site visitors.**

Quiz Yourself 2-3 Instructions: Find the true statement below. Then rewrite the remaining false statements so that they are true. 1. **A chat room is a location on an Internet server that permits users to chat with each other.** 2. An e-mail address is a combination of a user name and an e-mail program that identifies a user so that he or she can receive, __creat, send, print, foward, store, and delete__ Internet e-mail. 3. Business-to-consumer e-commerce __is a business transaction that occurs over an electronic network.__ 4. FTP is an Internet standard that permits file __uploading and downloading with other computers on the Internet.__ 5. __Instand Messaging__ uses the Internet (instead of the public switched telephone network) to connect a calling party to one or more called parties. 6. Netiquette is the code of __acceptable__ behaviors while on the Internet. 7. VoIP enables users to __speak__ to other users over the Internet.