Internet

INTRO TO COMPUTING

Internet

is a world-wide collection
of computer networks.

Health Information

Research Information

Legal Information

Job listing and Career Information

Games and Humor

There is a variety of information via
internet.

Electronic Mail and Mailing Lists

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Accessing on-line information servers and remote computers with telnet

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File Transfer using File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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Accessing information store on World Wide Web

Methods for gathering information on
the internet

Electronic Mail

is one of the primary
uses of the internet. It allows one user
to send a text-based message to another.

Mailing List

users can send mass mailing over the internet using ________. They allow each user or organization on a list to send mail messages to everyone else on the same list. There are thousands of mailing lists, each of which deals with the specialized interests of their subscribers.

File Transfer Protocol

is a method for transferring files from one computer on the Internet to another.

World Wide Web Servers

takes access a step further, providing a hypertext interface. It allows users to view formatted documents on their screen directly, instead of navigating hierarchical menus.

Sputnik I

Oct 04 1957 - USSR Launched

Advance Research Projects Agency Network

ARPANET

Galactic Network

Computers would be networked together. Concept by John Licklider

Interface Message Protocol

1969 - IMP million dollar contract

World Wide Web

is a universally-accepted standard for sharing documents and information on the internet.

Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of World Wide Web in 1989

Web Pages

The World Wide Web consists of
information organized into thousands of pages stored in computers physically located throughout the world.

Web Browsers

World Wide Web pages are accessed
using client browser like Internet Explorer and others.

Default Page

known as home, the page of information your browser displays when started.

Hypertext

allows you to progress or “branch” to other pages of information of interest in a non-linear fashion, allowing you to return the way you progressed through the Information originally, or to jump backward and forward along the path you have take in your browsing.

Hypertext Markup Langauge (HTML)

is the foundation of the World Wide Web.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

is the protocol used to transmit Web pages from the Web server being accessed to your computer.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

every Web page has a unique identifier

Server Name

is the domain name of the server you
are contacting.

Pathname

gives the path to the specific file on the World Wide Web.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

is a company that provides access to
the Internet.

Internet Protocol (IP)

is a system used to connect the
various computers within the internet.

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

is the protocol responsible for breaking data being sent across an IP connection into small packets, and then reassembling these when they arrive at their destination.

Domain Name

is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet.

Web Browser

is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

World Wide Web, WWW, W3, The Web

is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.

HTTP

Gopher

FTP

News

The transfer protocol identifies the manner for interpreting and transferring computer information and can include:

1. Desktop computers with communication capability.
2. An internet connection, address and account.
3. The internet network itself.
4. Servers of available information on the internet.

Four basic components of the Internet

Microsoft FrontPage

Macromedia Dreamweaver

A category of software that enables the user to develop a Web site in a desktop publishing format.

Web Pages

Web Servers

Web Browsers

Providers

The World Wide Web consists of: