SURFING THE NET - SCIENCE OLYMPIAD - BEARDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL
A quick introduction for Middle School students
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This Page is designed to provide a starting point for Bearden Middle School
(Knoxville, TN) Science Olympiad participants interested in learning about
Surfing the Net. It will be modified throughout the months preceeding the
1998 Competitions.
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Some Names of things you might find useful to learn about:
Archie - Searches for software (mostly) by looking at FTP sites- also
friend of Veronica
Bookmarks - a file kept on your computer that allows you to save a list
of the links you want to be able to go back to.
Browser - a type of software that allows one computer to view information
on another computer by reading and interpreting its HTML
E-mail - Stands for electronic mail, a way of sending messages from one
user to another using the Internet
FTP - Stands for File Transfer Protocol - predates the WWW and provides a
method to transfer large files (particularly for executable codes
for software) from one machine to another using the Internet
gopher - an early form of the WWW that is now mostly incorporated into
the WWW
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language - the language that computers on the WWW
to read and display files of various types.
Internet - The collection of computers all over the world which are
connected to each other through electronic means, so that one computer
can obtain information from others.
Java - a computer programming language that allows the same program to be
used on very different types of computers, but produces the same results
Link - a page on the WWW that has a name that starts with
http:// or gopher:// or ftp://
Lycos - a Robot
Netfind - a search engine designed for finding people on the Net
Robot - automated computer search programs that index a huge number of WWW
sites automatically
Search Engine - a computer program accessible via the WWW that allows you to
search to find particular information
The Net - see Internet
The Web - see WWW
Veronica - a method to search gophers to find information
Viola - and early WWW Browser
Webcrawler - a Robot
WWW - short for Wide World Web, the network of computers connected to each
other by the Internet which use HTML and it's extensions to allow users
on one computer to look at information on another computer
Yahoo - a subject index for the WWW that is arranged hierarchically, so you
can easily search by subjects
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Challenge Number 1: Explore the various buttons on your Browser to find what
they do. In the process, use this to see if you can find the Principal of
Bearden Middle School listed on the WWW, and save the links you find in
your Bookmarks file.
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Challenge Number 2: Find anything you can on the WWW about the Rules for the
Science Olympiad project Surfing the Net and save it in your Bookmarks file.
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