internet basics, browsers, application, advantages and disadvantages, architecture, www, url, html...

Internet basics, Browsers, application, advantages and

disadvantages, architecture, WWW, URL, HTML

Week 10

Mr. Mohammed Rahmath

Internet

Definition: The internet is a worldwide network of computers all connected to each other by telephone lines, cables and satellites.


History of Internet• The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide

system of• computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any

one computer• can, if they have permission, get information from any other

computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers).

• The U.S. Department of Defense laid the foundation of the Internet roughly

• More then 30 years ago with a network called ARPANET. But the general public didn't use the Internet much until after the development of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.

• Internet use Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). Two• recent adaptations of Internet technology, the intranet and the

extranet, also make use of the TCP/IP protocol.


Applications of Internet• 1. Communication• Job searches• Finding books and study material • Health and medicine• Travel• Entertainment • Shopping• Stock market updates • Research • Business use of internet


Advantages of Internet• Faster Communication • Abundant Information Resources • Inexhaustible Education • Entertainment for Everyone • Social Networking and Staying Connected • Online Services and E-commerce • E-mail• Access Information• Shopping• Downloading Software


Disadvantages of the Internet

• Theft of Personal Information • Spamming • Malware Threats • Age-inappropriate Content • Social Isolation, Obesity, and Depression


Internet Architecture

Definition : Its is a meta-network, a constantly changing collection of thousands of individual networks intercommunicating with a common protocol.


Common Terms used on Internet

• Browser : Contains the basic software you need in order to find, retrieve, view, and send information over the Internet.

• Download : To copy data from a remote computer to a local computer.

• Upload : To send data from a local computer to a remote computer.


• E-mail : E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication.

• Filter : Software that allows targeted sites to be blocked from view.

• Home Page : The beginning "page" of any site.• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) : The

coding language used to create documents for use on the World Wide Web.

• Hypertext - Generally any text that contains "links" to other text.


• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) : http is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

• Search Engine : A web server that collects data from other web servers and puts it into a database (much like an index), it provides links to pages that contain the object of your search.


• TCP/IP : TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet.

• URL (Uniform Resource Locator) : The Internet address. The prefix of a URL indicates which area of the Internet will be accessed.

• WWW (World Wide Web) : A technical definition of the World Wide Web is: all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).


Browser : It Contains the basic software you need in order to find, retrieve, view, and send information over the Internet.

Frame : A frame is a part of a web page or browser window which displays content independent of its container, with the ability to load content independently.

Scroll Bar : A bar that appears on the side or bottom of a window to control which part of a list or document is currently in the window 's frame.

Status Bar : A status bar is the bottom partition of Internet browsers and program windows that display the current state of the web page or window being displayed.


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