Internet

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Internet
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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?

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Internet

• Was developed in the late 1960s 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 1980s the National Science Foundation
  took over project and connected universities and
  researchers.

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Internet

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

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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.

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Connecting to the Internet

• A university Account (e.g. Saclink)
• Private Business
• On-Line Service (AOL, Compuserve)
• Public Libraries

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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

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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)

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Web Browser
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Web Browser Components

• Menu Bar
• Directory button Bar
• Toolbar
• Location Bar (URL-Uniform Resource Locator)
• Status Indicator
• Document Window
• Status and Progress Bar

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WWW

• Links
• Search Engines
• HTTP
• FTP

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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?