INTERNET, WWW & E-MAIL

INTERNET
In

the 1950s and early 1960s, before the

widespread inter-networking that led to
the Internet, most communication
networks were limited in that they only
allowed communications between the
stations on the network.
A fundamental pioneer in the call for a
global network, J.C.R. Licklider

INTERNET
The

term "internet" was adopted in the

first RFC (Request for Comments )
published on the TCP protocol (RFC 675:
Internet Transmission Control Program,
December 1974) as an abbreviation of
the term internetworking and the two
terms were used interchangeably.
In general, an internet was any network
using TCP/IP.

Internet is a collection of networks that are

INTERNET

The

linked together worldwide to exchange data and

distribute processing tasks.
The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible
network of networks. It enables individuals and
businesses alike, through interconnected
computer networks, to share information,
resources, and services

 In

the beginning, the Internet was used strictly for

scientific, educational, and military research.
In 1991, regulations changed to allow businesses
and consumers to connect as well.
The Internet has grown rapidly, and is now global.
New technologies are continuously being
developed that make the Internet easier and
more attractive to use.
Communication between all of the different
devices on the Internet is made possible by
TCP/IP.

INTERNET

Networking
Media

Internet illustration
Servers

Network

INTERNET & WWW

WHAT YOU NEED TO CONNECT

TO THE INTERNET
CONNECTION

LINK

ISP

Depends on the magnitude of consumption

E.g. MODEM, Dial up, Cable link.

COMPUTER
Wireless

card
Network card
Web browser

Network Interface Card

Resources on the Internet

Web Sites
Search engines
Downloads and uploads
E-mail
Bulletin boards
Weblog (Blog)
Chat groups and instant messaging
Internet telephony
E-commerce
Broadcasting
Remote access and control

WAYS TO CONNECT TO THE

INTERNET
1. Wireless

Using a properly equipped laptop

computer, Pocket PC or even a cell phone,
the Internet can be accessed using a
wireless connection.

2. Dial up connection

Uses phone lines and the modem inside

computers to connect to the Internet.

Ways to connect
3. Cable connection

Uses a cable just the same as cable

television. You must obtain a modem from
your ISP. Comparable to DSL in features.

4. Satellite connection

A connection using a satellite. Outdoor

and indoor equipment must be obtained.
Actually, a satellite connection is slower
than DSL or Cable and about twice as
expensive.

5. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line)

Uses phone lines
one part of your phone line is dedicated
to your Internet connection
It is much faster than Dial Up and more
stable

WWW (World Wide Web)

consists of Web sites

Web site:
Like books, Web sites contain information
and consist of pages. A Web site may
consist of many pages or just a single page.
Web page:
The individual pages that make up a Web
site. You view a single Web page at a time.

EXAMPLE

LINKS

Hyperlinks/Links
A link is an area of a Web page that, when
you click on it, will take you from the page
you are presently viewing to another page
either within the same site or to an entirely
different site.
How to identify a link

Links can be anything on a page. Examples:

Underlined text; color varies but is often blue

Images
Objects in motion

LINKS
Any

of the following may happen

when you point to a link:

The mouse arrow should change into hand

with pointing finger
Address appears on Status Bar
Link changes colors
Link moves
Box appears near link with a Web page
address or information

 Home

page:
When accessing a Web site, the first
page displayed is usually the Home
page.

FEATURES OF A WEB PAGE

Title of open page

Address bar

Navigational bar

links

Status bar shows

address of pointed to
link

FEATURES of INTERNET
EXPLORER
Menu bar

Standard tool
bar

Tabbed browsing
bar

Task bar

Title bar

Address bar

Maximize

minimize

close

FEATURES OF A WEB PAGE

Title Bar:
Displays the name of the Web page you are
viewing and which program you are using. It
also contains the minimize, resize, & close
(exit) buttons.
Menu Bar:
Contains buttons which open drop-down
menus that provide access to most
commands available in the program. In
most Windows programs, the most common
menu options are File, Edit, View and Help.

Standard tool bar

BACK

FOWARD

With these buttons you can return to pages you have visited:
1) only during the same session you are presently in
2) 2) in the exact order you have visited them
If a button is grayed out, it is unavailable, which means that it is impossible to
perform this function at this time.

Stop: If you click the Stop button before the page is displayed, the browser
will stop trying to access the page and return to the page you were viewing.
WHY
1) you clicked on a link by mistake
2) it is taking much too long to connect to a Web page
3) you are taken to a page with the message page cannot be displayed
(the connection may be successful on the second attempt)

Refresh: This button breaks the connection with the page you are viewing,
then reconnects to the same page giving you the latest version of that page.
E.g.. When viewing pages which contain information such as, the stock
market, sports scores, weather or breaking news.

Home: This button takes you back to the first page that is set to display
when you connect to the Internet your starting point.

Favorites While exploring the Internet, you will find many pages which you
will want to revisit in the future. The Favorites button offers a way to return
to those pages quickly and easily without having to remember their
addresses or how you found them.

To add a page to the Favorites, you must first be viewing that page. Once you
are at the page, click Add to Favorites button and select Add to Favorites
from the menuThe Add Favorite window opens.

Adding Favorites

Click ADD.

The History button opens a menu on the left side of the display area listing
sites that have been visited. Just like the Favorites menu, a single left click
on one of the pages listed in the History frame will take you to that page

Print Preview This button will show you exactly what the web page(s) will
look like if printed, how many pages it will take to print and exactly what is
on each printed page. Below is an example of what clicking Print Preview
will display. To return to the normal view click on the X on the extreme right
of the Title Bar.

Address Bar
If you know the address of a web site,
such as www.yahoo.com, you can go
directly there by typing the address in
the Address Bar located just below the
Standard Toolbar

 Drop-down

arrow: Located at right

end of the Address Bar keeps the
addresses of the sites you have typed
into the Address Bar. When you click on
the arrow, it opens a drop-down menu
and allows you to return to a site simply
by clicking on the site in the drop-down
menu.

Tips
for
spaces
in entering
web address
Use
addresses:
lower case letters unless upper case is
No

specifically noted
Accuracy is important. The address must
be exactly correct. Any deviation will not
get you to the correct page
With

newer browsers you do not have to

type http://
If the address begins with ftp:// you must
type in the complete address
including ftp://

Things you should know about web address

domains:

The domain consists of letters in the address, often at the

end and always after a dot (period), which tells you what
kind of Web site it is. Examples:

1).com = commercial
2).edu= educational institution
3).gov= government site

4).mil = military
5) .ac= academic institution

6).org = non-profit organization and certain other types of

organizations
7).la.us= site from an official Louisiana institutions such as
the libraries

There are many more domains. Other countries have their

system of domains

SEARCH ENGINES (SEs)

Are Web sites whose main purpose is to find sites

which contain information that you are interested in
finding if you do not know a specific address.
Although different SEs will very often return lists
containing many of the same sites, they will also
return different sites in addition to the duplicates.

Many SEs have different methods of searching and

search different sections of Web pages for your
term(s):
--some search the Web pages titles
--some search the URL
--some search the entire text of the web page

Types

Types of Search Engines

There are different types of search engines

1)Directory

Yahoo is an example of a directory search engine.

At Yahoo, actual people examine sites for content, then

categorize and place them into a directory which is
navigated by links. Web sites found in the directory almost
assuredly contain information on the topic under which
they are placed.

2)Multi-or Meta-Search engines

Ixquick is an example of a Meta-or Multi-Search engine.
These web sites employ more than one individual SE to
find your term(s).
Below is the address of a site to help you evaluate certain
search engines: www.infopeople.org Point to Search Tools;
click on Search Tools Chart.

Examples of SEs

Multi/Meta-Search Engines:

Search Engines:

ixquickwww.ixquick.com
Google www.google.com
Ask Jeeveswww.askjeeves.com
Dogpilewww.dogpile.com
FAST Search www.alltheweb.com
Mamma www.mamma.com
Metacrawlerwww.metacrawler.com
AltaVista www.altavista.com
Excite my.excite.com/myexcite/my.jsp
HotBotwww.hotbot.com
Infoseekinfoseek.go.com
Lycos www.lycos.com

Directories:

Yahoo! www.yahoo.com

Other Web Sites of Interest

Libraries:
Jefferson

Parish Library www.jefferson.lib.la.us

Library of Congress www.loc.gov
Salt Lake City Public Library www.slcpl.lib.ut.us

Tutorials:
Excel

Tutorial www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel
Word Tutorial-www.baycongroup.com/wlesson0.htm

Automobiles:
Employment:
Entertainment:
www.imdb.com

Health:

www.healthatoz.com

How Do Things Work:

N.A.D.A. www.nada.com
Monster www.monster.com
Internet Movie Database

healthAtoZ
www.howstuffworks.com

Email
Electronic

mail (e-mail) are electronic

messages sent through a computer
network or over the web.
More than 15 billion e-mails are sent
over the internet each year.
An e-mail account provides the rights
to a storage area, or mailbox, supplied
by an e-mail provider.

E- mail message
An e-mail message is a document that is
composed on a computer and remains in
an electronic form so that it can be
transmitted to another computer.
Every message includes a message
header and the body of the message
Basic e-mail activities consists of writing,
reading, replying, and forwarding
messages.
Messages can be printed, kept for later
reference, or deleted.

Forwarding and attachments

After

you receive an e-mail message,

you can use the forward feature to
pass it on to other people.
An e-mail attachment is a file that can
be sent along with the e-mail message.
The file can be a document, graphic, or
audio file.

Email technology

POP (Post Office Protocol) temporarily stores

new messages in your mailbox on an e-mail
server.
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access
Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic
mail that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail
server.

In other words, it permits a "client" email program to

access remote message stores as if they were local.
For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be
manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a
workstation at the office, and a notebook computer
while traveling, without the need to transfer
messages or files back and forth between these
computers.

Difference between POP and IMAP

POP- Post Office Protocol

IMAP- Internet Messaging Access Protocol

The email needs to be downloaded onto the

desktop PC before being displayed

Email is kept and accessed from the server.

All messages as well as their attachments will be

downloaded into desktop PC during the 'check
new email' process.

A whole message will be downloaded only when

it is opened for display from its content.

Best if you use only one computer to check email

Best if you use many different computers to

check your email

Mailboxes can only be created on desktop PC.

There is only one mailbox (INBOX) exists on the
server.

Multiple mailboxes can be created on the desktop

Filters can transfer incoming/outgoing messages

only to local mailboxes.

Filters can transfer incoming/outgoing messages

to other mailboxes no matter where the
mailboxes locate (on the server or the PC).

Outgoing email is stored only locally on the

desktop PC.

Outgoing email can be filtered to a mailbox on

Messages are deleted on the desktop PC.

Comparatively, it is inconvenient to clean up your
mailbox on the server.

Messages can be deleted directly on the server

to make it more convenient to clean up your

PC as well as on the server

server for accessibility from other machine.

mailbox on the server.

Advanced E-mail Features

Address book
Create groups
Carbon copy
Blind carbon copy
Assign message priority
Find a specific message in your list of old messages

Enlarge text
Sort messages
Refuse to accept messages from a specific
address
Automate replies to messages
Automatic fetch messages at given intervals
Spell check messages

Internet Etiquette

Use meaningful title in subject

Use uppercase and lowercase letters
Check spelling
Be careful what you send
Be polite
Be concise
Use humor and sarcasm cautiously
Use smileys cautiously
Use Bcc for groups
Dont use reply all
Limit sending large attachments
Explain attachments
Be aware of viruses
Notify recipients of viruses.

INTERNET GLOSSARY

BOOLEAN SEARCH:
A search using words AND, OR, and NOT. The words are used
to increase or decrease the amount of information you may
get when doing a search.
George Boole developed the process.

BROWSER:
A program on a computer that accepts requests for
information, processes the requests and allows you to
navigate to resources on the Internet. E.g. Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla etc

BLOG-(WEBLOG):
An online journal made up of links and postings in reverse
chronological order. Many blogs link to other web pages,
allowing readers to participate in discussion of information on
certain blogs. You must register on the blog site to participate

INTERNET GLOSSARY

DOWNLOAD -When you copy a file from another computer

to your computer such as when using FTP (File Transfer
Protocol-a program to download files) to get software and
files.

E-MAIL -Stands for electronic mail. It involves sending and

receiving messages over a network such as the Internet.

HOST -A computer that provides information to internet

users. Also known as a server.

HTML -(Hypertext Markup Language) One of the computer

languages used to create web pages.

HTTP -(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) The Internet standard

for transferring information on the World Wide Web.

INTERNET GLOSSARY

HYPERLINK -(Also known as a link) A connection from one

World Wide Web document to another. Clicking a link
transfers to the destination document.

INTERNET -A worldwide computer network that connects

universities, government laboratories, companies, and
individuals around the world.

ISP -(Internet Service Provider) The Company you use to

connect to the Internet, usually for a monthly charge.

PROTOCOL -A set of rules or standards that must be

followed to enable communication or file transfers between
two computers. Without such standards, the two computers
would not be able to communicate with each other.

INTERNET GLOSSARY

SEARCH ENGINES -Web sites that index hundreds of thousands of

web pages, and allow you to search through them by keyword to
find topics you are interested in. e.g. Yahoo!, AltaVista, Lycos,
Webcrawler, and Google.

URL -Uniform Resource Locator is the address for the web sites. An
example of a URL is http://www.jefferson.lib.la.us .

WEB PAGE -A World Wide Web page. A web page may print out
several paper pages.

A web site is a collection of web pages with some common

ownership or theme.

A home page is the front door for the web site -the page you
usually see first when you connect to the site.

WORLD WIDE WEB -Known as WWW or the Web. Is a major

component of the larger Internet. It allows users to explore and
retrieve text and graphics from web sites.

Assignment
Create

an email address for yourself using any

email service.
Send me an email with a simple message on..gizee@gmail.com
Use

any of the search engines to find tutorials on

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