Flashcards: Internet

An Internet protocol camera, or IP camera, is a type of digital video camera commonly employed for surveillance, and which, unlike analog closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras, can send and receive data via a computer network and the Internet.

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide clinical health care from a distance.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) is a United States federal law, located at 15 U.

Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it.

Cyberbullying is the act of harming or harassing via information technology networks in a repeated and deliberate manner.

An HTTP cookie (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie or simply cookie) is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in the user's web browser while the user is browsing.

Internet censorship is the control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet.

Internet police is a generic term for police and secret police departments and other organizations in charge of policing Internet in a number of countries.

Phishing is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money), often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors.

Online banking, also known as internet banking, e-banking or virtual banking, is an electronic payment system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website.

In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the users of each network.

In online marketing, a landing page, sometimes known as a "lead capture page" or a "lander", or a "destination page", is a single web page that appears in response to clicking on a search engine optimized search result or an online advertisement.

In the context of the World Wide Web, deep linking is the use of a hyperlink that links to a specific, generally searchable or indexed, piece of web content on a website (e.g., "http://example.com/path/page"), rather than the website's home page (e.g., "http://example.com/").

Internet addiction disorder, more commonly called problematic Internet use (PIU), refers to excessive computer use which interferes with daily life.

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments regulating the Internet should treat all data on the Internet the same, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, website, platform, application, type of attached equipment, or mode of communication.

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character.

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.

Internet in Russian (also Russian Internet (Russian: русский Интернет), known as Runet) is a part of the Internet that uses the Russian language.

This page provides an index of articles thought to be Internet or Web related topics.

The sociology of the Internet involves the application of sociological theory and method to the Internet as a source of information and communication.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Internet.