New terms and their definitions: Technical support fundamentals

ARPANET : The earliest version of the Internet that we see today, created by the US government project DARPA in the 1960s Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) : Regulates the information we show to children under the age of 13 Clients : A device that receives data from a server DARPA : A US government project in the 1960s that went on to create the earliest version of the Internet that we see today Domain name : A website name; the part of the URL following www. Domain Name System (DNS) : A global and highly distributed network service that resolves strings of letters, such as a website name, into an IP address Ethernet cable : It lets you physically connect to the network through a cable Fiber optic cable : Fiber optic cables contain individual optical fibers which are tiny tubes made of glass about the width of a human hair. Unlike copper, which uses electrical voltages, fiber cables use pulses of light to represent the ones and zeros of the underlying data Globalization