Saturday, January 3, 2009
The internet is most appropriately thought of a s “network of networks” that is growing at incredibly fast rate. These networks consist of LANS (local area networks), connecting several LANs in different locations.
As the popularity of the Internet have grown, so has the number of ISPs (Internet service provider), companies that offer Internet connections at monthly rates depending on the kind of amount of access needed.
Using the Internet
E-mail (Electronic mail) , with this, users can communicate with anyone else online, any place in the world, with no long distance fees ( just applicable local phone connection charges). Instant messaging, or IM, is the real time version of e-mail, allowing two or more people to communicate instantaneously and in immediate response to one another.
Mailing Lists, e-mail can be used to join mailing lists, bulletin boards, or discussion groups that cover a huge variety of subjects. The lists are incorrectly called “listservs” which is the name of the free software program used to run most of them.
Usenet Also known as network news. Usenet is an internationally distributed bulletin board system.
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) pronounced as “voyp”, this is telephone where calls are transferred in digital pockets over the internet rather than on circuit switched telephone wires.
The World Wide Web
Another way of accessing information files is on the Internet via the World Wide Web. The Web is not the physical place, nor a set of files, nor even a network of computers. The heart of the Web lies in the Protocols that defines it use. The WWW uses hypertext transfer protocols (HTTP) to transport files from on place to another.
What makes the WWW unique is the striking appearance of the information when it gets to your computer.
Host (Computers Connected to the Internet) Other than e-mail transactions, most Internet activity consist of users accessing files on remote computers. To reach these files, users must first gain access to the Internet through “wired-to-the-Net” hosts. These hosts are often called servers.
Browsers Software program located on the user’s computer and used to download and view web files are known as browsers.
Search Engines Finding information on the web is becoming easier thanks to the growing number of companies creating Web-or-Net-search software. They provide on screen menus that make their navigation as simple a s pointing and clicking.
Home Pages the entryway to the site itself. It is not contain the information the site’s creators what visitors want to know but also provides hyperlinks to other material on that site, as well as to material in other sites on other computers linked to the Net anywhere in the world.
As the popularity of the Internet have grown, so has the number of ISPs (Internet service provider), companies that offer Internet connections at monthly rates depending on the kind of amount of access needed.
Using the Internet
E-mail (Electronic mail) , with this, users can communicate with anyone else online, any place in the world, with no long distance fees ( just applicable local phone connection charges). Instant messaging, or IM, is the real time version of e-mail, allowing two or more people to communicate instantaneously and in immediate response to one another.
Mailing Lists, e-mail can be used to join mailing lists, bulletin boards, or discussion groups that cover a huge variety of subjects. The lists are incorrectly called “listservs” which is the name of the free software program used to run most of them.
Usenet Also known as network news. Usenet is an internationally distributed bulletin board system.
Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) pronounced as “voyp”, this is telephone where calls are transferred in digital pockets over the internet rather than on circuit switched telephone wires.
The World Wide Web
Another way of accessing information files is on the Internet via the World Wide Web. The Web is not the physical place, nor a set of files, nor even a network of computers. The heart of the Web lies in the Protocols that defines it use. The WWW uses hypertext transfer protocols (HTTP) to transport files from on place to another.
What makes the WWW unique is the striking appearance of the information when it gets to your computer.
Host (Computers Connected to the Internet) Other than e-mail transactions, most Internet activity consist of users accessing files on remote computers. To reach these files, users must first gain access to the Internet through “wired-to-the-Net” hosts. These hosts are often called servers.
Browsers Software program located on the user’s computer and used to download and view web files are known as browsers.
Search Engines Finding information on the web is becoming easier thanks to the growing number of companies creating Web-or-Net-search software. They provide on screen menus that make their navigation as simple a s pointing and clicking.
Home Pages the entryway to the site itself. It is not contain the information the site’s creators what visitors want to know but also provides hyperlinks to other material on that site, as well as to material in other sites on other computers linked to the Net anywhere in the world.
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