Felix’s Technology Dictionary

address – A place websites call home address – A place websites call home. The place a website lives in cyberspace is called its address – also known as a URL. It usually looks something like this: address

back – When you’re surfing through cyberspace and you want to return to the page you just visited, the back button can help. It is usually found near the address bar and takes you to the page you were looking at before the current one. back

CD-rom CD-rom – A computer disk that can save and store things from your computer. It is also the format that most software, including games, comes on these days.

download download – Moving files from a site on the Internet to your personal computer.

email email – Electronic mail. You can send and receive messages over the Internet from your friends, family, and teacher when you have this feature.

Floppy Disk Floppy Disk – a square disk that holds 1.44mb of information.

hardware – The actual parts that make up a computer system – like the monitor, keyboard, printer, and mouse. These are the parts you can actually touch and see. hardware

keyboard Keyboard – This is the device used to type in the information.

Modem modem – Hardware that allows computers to talk to each other through normal telephone lines.

Monitor – The screen where you see the picture and text from your computer.

mouse – A device that lets you move about your screen as you like so you can click on links and highlight items. mouse

Printer – the hardware that prints out the text or pictures from your computer.

server server – A computer that stores information for many other computers.

How many words do you know?