Caylie Sanderson

Master the basics

A. The best setting for your monitor is 800x600 pixels with thousands of colors. B. You should avoid using all caps in your e-mails because it looks like youre shouting and its also difficult to read. C. Emoticons are smileys or faces that you can make with your computer keyboard. D. Spamming is when you post unrelated comments that can hurt and offend someone. E. Flaming is when you offend someone unintentionally. F. Two abbreviations that you can use in e-mail messages to shorten the text are LOL which means laugh out loud or IDK which means I dont know. G. FAQs are handy documents to read before you ask questions. H. The internet started in 1960-1985 out of an experiment held by the U.S. Department of Defense. It developed because the DOD wanted a network that would continue to work even if a disaster occurred. I. The purpose of a chat room is so you can communicate with others instantly and it also helps people send letters and pay their bills without having to go anywhere. J. On the internet, many different communications go on at the same time. This means that you are in a chat room. K. Bandwidth is the data-carrying capacity of telephone lines. L. The Internet2 is a partnership between universities, corporations, and government agencies. M. Internet2 is very fast. It transmits data up to 2.4 gigabits per second.