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Understanding the Internet: Basics, Tools, and Web Components

Learn about the documents on the World Wide Web, the language used in web pages, web page elements, web addresses, FTP, HTML, ISP, and more. Explore how the internet is used commercially and discover internet tools like email, Telnet, and Usenet.

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Understanding the Internet: Basics, Tools, and Web Components

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  1. Internet

  2. Common Terms • The documents placed on the World Wide Web? • The language in which Web pages are written? • The element of a Web page that connects you to another Web page? • The address of a web page? • HTML? FTP? ISP?

  3. Internet • Was developed in the late 1960’s for war purposes by Department of Defense. • It originated out of the Arpanet program which emphasized a decentralized network • It is composed of a network of networks • In late 1980’s the National Science Foundation took over project and connected universities and researchers.

  4. Internet • How it is used: • Commercially to connect to potential customers • Access newsgroups • Retrieve data • Access Software • Send and Receive E-mail

  5. Internet Tools • Electronic Mail - send and receive e-mail • Telnet - Connect one Computer to another • FTP - File Transfer Protocol • Usenet - newsgroups • World Wide Web - organizes everything in easy to use pages.

  6. Connecting to the Internet • A university Account (e.g.: Saclink) • Private Business • On-Line Service (AOL, Compuserve) • Public Libraries

  7. WWW- World Wide Web • Developed by Timothy Berners-Lee in 1989 • Purpose was to make it easier for nuclear researchers to share data • First Web Browser was developed in 1993 by Marc Andreessen call Mosaic. • Netscape was developed in 1994 and has dramatically increased the speed and features of the web

  8. Web Browser • Design to view web pages on the internet. • Typically use either Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer • Browsers interpret the language in which Web pages are written (HTML-Hypertext Markup Language)

  9. Web Browser

  10. Web Browser Components • Menu Bar • Directory button Bar • Toolbar • Location Bar (URL-Uniform Resource Locator) ** • Status Indicator • Document Window • Status and Progress Bar

  11. WWW • Links • Search Engines • HTTP • FTP

  12. Questions? • The documents placed on the World Wide Web? • The language in which Web pages are written? • The element of a Web page that connects you to another Web page? • The address of a web page? • FTP? HTML? ISP?

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