Quiz 3: The Internet - What do you need to connect to the
Internet from your home? - What is HTML? - What are URLs? - What
is a search engine? - What is a meta-search engine? - What is a
Web browser? - What is a bookmark? - A modem, a phone
connection, an Internet Service Provider, and a Web browser
(Netscape or Internet Explorer). Other options are cable,
satellite, or DSL connections. - HTML or Hypertext Markup
Language is the computer language that composes the multimedia
documents or Web sites on the Internet. - URLs or Uniform
Resource Locators are the unique addresses for documents on the
web. - A search engine is a database that organizes, indexes and
retrieves Web pages when you do a search on the Web. An example
of a search engine is: www.google.com - A meta search engine
searches several individual search engines at once but only
retrieve approximately 10% of the search engine results from
each one they visit. - A Web browser is a computer program that
allows you to view World Wide Web and HTML docu