Answers to Questions

Grades K-3

1. Connected computers all over the world that speak to each other, giving and receiving information.

2. Phone line used to connect your computer to the Internet.

3. Another computer that is linked sends it to the Internet.

4. WWW stands for World Wide Web, which is where your computer looks for the information somewhere on the connected computer on the Internet. It is also called a host name.

5. It is the name of the web site, which, in this case, is howstuffworks.

6. Mail you receive or send over the Internet, also known as electronic mail.

7. Email clients or Internet Service Provider. (ISP)

8. Lists all of the messages telling you who sent the mail, the subject, time and date.

9. The name of the person sending the email. You can make it up yourself.

10. Faster and no stamps.

 

Grades 4-8

1. Modem is a phone line used to connect your computer to the Internet. ISP is the one that links your computer to the Internet such as America Online, CompuServe, MSN Interactive Access and many more. The computer network means that the computers on the Internet are connected in such a way that you can obtain all of the information.

2. An address name of a web site such as http://www.howstuffworks.com/webserver.htm.

3. It is a series of computers networked or linked together, which allows information to be sent and received anywhere in the world.

4. Diagram.

5. Email stands for electronic mail. Postage stamps are not needed, it is fast and you don't have to use small talk like, 'Hi, how are you?' You can get right to the point.

6. The article is about a gentleman, who sent himself a message from one connected computer to another. He picked the @ (pronounced at) sign as the locator symbol for electronic addresses and invented email!

7. It is the software used to show the email on your computer screen, such as Microsoft Outlook or AOL's email reader. It lists all the messages waiting to be read on your screen by the mail headers, subject of the mail, time, date, and message size. It also allows you to write and send messages with attachments and to save the messages that you receive.

8. This is a software application that runs constantly on millions of computers all over the Internet now. These programs run on “server machines,” and they listen for specific ports waiting for people or programs to attach to the port. They receive the information and send it to the person that is being directed to receive the information. It is similar to a post office or a mail courier. The two servers which are used in real email are: the SMTP Server (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), which handles outgoing mail, and the POP3 (Post Office Protocol), which handles incoming mail.

9. Diagram.

 

Grades 9-12:

1. Answers will vary.

2. An address name of a web site such as http://www.howstuffworks.com/webserver.htm.

3. It is huge collection of computers networked or linked together, which allows information to be sent and received anywhere in the world if connected to the World Wide Web.

4. Diagram.

5. There are computers (or machines) called servers and clients on the Internet. The servers store the information until a time that it is requested. It is then sent to your computer. The client is the one who requests the information.

6. He sent himself a message from one connected computer to another. He picked the @ (pronounced at) sign as the locator symbol for electronic addresses and invented email!

7. The telephone revolutionized communications and brought it into the modern age as did email.

8. It is the software used to show the email on your computer screen, such as Microsoft Outlook or American Online's email reader. It lists all the messages waiting to be read on your screen by the mail headers, subject of the mail, time, date and message size. It also allows you to write and send messages with attachments and to save the messages you receive.

9. This is a software application that runs constantly on millions of computers all over the Internet now. These programs run on “server machines,” and they listen for specific ports waiting for people or programs to attach to the port. They receive the information and send it to the person that is directed to receive the information. It is like a post office or mail.

10. One is the SMTP Server (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), which handles outgoing mail. The other is POP3 (Post Office Protocol), which handles incoming mail.

11. Diagram.