14694490533 | Innovation | a novel or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof | 0 | |
14694490534 | Prototype | a preliminary sketch of an idea or model for something new. It's the original drawing from which something real might be built or created | 1 | |
14694490535 | Binary | a way of representing information using only two options | 2 | |
14694490536 | Binary Question | a question to which there are only two possible answers | 3 | |
14694490537 | Binary Message | a message that can only be one of two possible values | 4 | |
14694490538 | Bit (contraction of "Binary Digit") | the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1 | 5 | |
14694490539 | Bandwidth | transmission capacity measure by bit rate | 6 | |
14694490540 | Bit rate (sometimes written bitrate) | the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. e.g. 8 bits/sec | 7 | |
14694490541 | Latency | time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver | 8 | |
14694490542 | Protocol | a set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices | 9 | |
14694490543 | ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) | the universally recognized raw text format that any computer can understand | 10 | |
14694490544 | Code (v) | to write code, or to write instructions for a computer | 11 | |
14694490545 | Request for Comments (RFC) documents | how standards and protocols are defined and published for all to see on the IETF website | 12 | |
14694490546 | IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) | develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) | 13 | |
14694490547 | Internet | a group of computers and servers that are connected to each other | 14 | |
14694490548 | Net Neutrality | the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers | 15 | |
14694490549 | IP Address | a number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet | 16 | |
14694490550 | Packets | small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information | 17 | |
14694490551 | Router | a computer which receives messages travelling across a network and redirects them towards their intended destinations based on the addressing information included with the message | 18 | |
14694490552 | TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) | provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the Internet | 19 | |
14694490553 | DNS (Domain Name System) | the Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses | 20 | |
14694490554 | Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) | the protocol used by the World Wide Web. It describes how messages are formatted and interchanged, and how web servers respond to commands | 21 | |
14694490555 | Abstraction | reducing information and detail to focus on essential characteristics | 22 | |
14694490556 | Server | a computer that awaits and responds to requests for data | 23 | |
14694490557 | Client | a computer that requests data stored on a server | 24 | |
14694490558 | URL | an easy-to-remember address for calling a web page (like www.code.org) | 25 |
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