Top 3 BIG DARN DEALS Chapter 4

I thought I knew most of the basics about computers until I read Chapter 4.



1. First and foremost I never knew what RAM or ROM meant I knew it had something to do with memory but never knew that there was a difference between the two, being volatile and permanent. Now I know that RAM= Random Access Memory and is volatile meaning that it is not permanent. ROM=Read-Only Memory and is non-volatile which means PERMANENT.


2. I was always confused when it came to memory sizes, like KB, MB, GB, and TB. Now I know that KB is kilobytes, GB is Gigabytes, MB is megabytes, and TB is terabyte. I've heard of megabytes and gigabytes but not the other two. I also never knew which one was smaller and larger. But now I know that KB= 1 thousand, MB= 1 million, GB= billion, TB= 1 trillion. So KB is obviously the smallest out of all four and TB is the largest.


3. I think it was pretty cool doing the Motherboard lab because I've never seen the inside of a computer. I probably have once but didn't know what I was looking at. It still looked confusing when I seen it in the book and in the lab but at least now I can identify where things go on it and compare it to a residential piece of land with buses and tree poles like the lab referred it as.

The top 3 "big darn deals" on Chapter 2

After reading chapter 2, I realized that there are more web browsers out there than Internet Explorer. I have heard of and used Firefox and Netscape but for some reason I was really set on Internet Explorer being the main Web browser. I find that weird since there are other options! The second thing I learned in Chapter 2 is that IP addresses and the domain name both correlate. I didn't even know that they had anything in common. But now I know that the IP address is basically the number format and the domain name is the word format for the name of the website.  The third thing I learned in Chapter 2 is about Netiquette. Last semester when I took my first computer class I heard my teacher refer to Internet Etiquette as Netiquette and I thought she was creative for just making it up right there on the spot. Now after reading chapter 2 it’s like "Netiquette" is a world wide thing! But it is pretty good to have the netiquette guide because most of the guidelines on it make sense and have a point.