The document discusses key concepts related to the internet and the web, including:
- The internet allows computers to connect globally and exchange information like text, graphics, audio, and video. Any device connected needs an IP address.
- The web is a way to access information over the internet through hyperlinks and URLs. It uses browsers to view web pages containing multimedia.
- An internet service provider connects users to the internet and provides services like access, hosting, and domain registration using technologies like DSL and cable.
- Protocols like TCP and IP allow communication between networked devices and the exchange of information. Other important concepts discussed include email, file sharing, e-commerce, browsers, search tools,
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The document discusses key concepts related to the internet and the web, including:
- The internet allows computers to connect globally and exchange information like text, graphics, audio, and video. Any device connected needs an IP address.
- The web is a way to access information over the internet through hyperlinks and URLs. It uses browsers to view web pages containing multimedia.
- An internet service provider connects users to the internet and provides services like access, hosting, and domain registration using technologies like DSL and cable.
- Protocols like TCP and IP allow communication between networked devices and the exchange of information. Other important concepts discussed include email, file sharing, e-commerce, browsers, search tools,
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INTERNET AND THE WEB
BY
Abikoye, O.C & Akintola, A.G.
Department of Computer Science Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences Corresponding Author e-mail address: [email protected], [email protected] The Internet
Often referred to as the Net
A means by which a computer is connected to any other computer anywhere in the world via dedicated routers and servers. Computers connected over the Internet can send and receive all kinds of information such as text, graphics, voice, video, and computer programs. Any computer on the internet is identified by an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The Web Also referred to as World Wide Web (WWW) A way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. Collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera Mini, Google WWW is one of the services Chrome etc to access Web provided by the Internet. pages. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video. Internet Service Provider(ISP) An ISP can be categorized An organization that provides into Access provider ISPs, services for accessing, using, or Edge provider, Mailbox participating in the internet provider, Hosting ISPs, Transit activities. ISPs, Virtual ISPs, Free ISPs ISP may be organized in various and Wireless ISPs. forms, such as commercial, An ISP serves as the main community owned, non-profit, or entry or gateway access to otherwise privately owned. the world largest network of Services provided by ISPs computers, the Internet. include Internet access, Internet Some ISP companies in transit, domain name Nigeria include NETOM registration, web hosting, Usenet Africa, SWIFT, IPNX Nigeria, service, and collocation. ETISALAT, SPECTRANET, Connection technologies used SMILES, GLOBACOM,VDT by ISP include dial-up, Digital Communications, MTN Subscriber Line (DSL), cable, and Nigeria and VISAFONE. wireless modems. Connections & Protocol Set of rules that makes A connection is the successful communications possible completion of necessary between computers arrangements so that two or more parties (for example, Protocols specify interactions people or programs) can between the communicating communicate at a long entities. distance. The two most important It has a strong physical protocols that allow (hardware) connotation networks to cooperate with although logical (software) one another and exchange elements are usually involved. information are called TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol). Collectively, these two protocols are known as TCP/IP. Other protocols include FTP, HTTP: RTP, TFTP, UDP, PPP , etc A method of exchanging Mailing System digital messages from an author to one or more Mailing system always involves recipients. the sender and receiver. It is an information and At the sender end, data is communication technology. broken into packets and sent There are many software to the nearest node (router). platforms available to send At each router, it sends the and receive. packet to another router that Popular e-mail platforms is closer to the final include Gmail, Hotmail,Yahoo! destination. Mail, Outlook, and many At the receiver end; packets others. are reassembled to get the A typical e-mail address original data consists of four basic Examples include E-mail components which include the user name, the "@" Electronic mail, most symbol, the mail server and commonly called e-mail or the top-level domain. Example e-mail since around 1993. of an e-mail address is [email protected] Internet Services Electronic mail File sharing
Remote terminal Resource distribution
File transfer: This is the World Wide Web
achieved by FTP, Video conferencing Newsgroups Games E-Commerce Known as electronic Three basic types of e- commerce or EC is the commerce are business-to- buying and selling of goods consumer, business-to- and services, or the business, and consumer- to- transmitting of funds or data, consumer. over an electronic network, primarily the Internet. Other types of E-commerce EC draws on technologies include Business-to- such as mobile commerce, government e-commerce or electronic funds transfer, B2G, M-commerce (mobile supply chain management, commerce), Consumer-to- internet marketing, online Business (C2B), Business-to- transaction processing, Administration (B2A) & Electronic Data Consumer-to- Interchange(EDI), Inventory Administration (C2A) management systems and automated data collection systems. Browsers A web browser is a client Examples include: program that requests services from a web server. Opera,
Web sites are hosted on Firefox,
dedicated computers known iCab, as web servers. Safari, Web browsers display web Konqueror, pages delivered from a web server. Google Chrome, Browsers access the Web, Epiphany, allowing you to surf or SeaMonkey, explore. K-Meleon, Some related terms are: OmniWeb URLs HTML JavaScript Applet Mobile browsers Search Tools Search allows you to search content created by tools within a worksite or course. Search indexes many different types of content, including messages, web pages in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) format, documents in DOC, Portable Document File (PDF), or Rich Text Format(RTF) format, spreadsheets in XLS format, and Wiki pages. There are three basic types of search tools : Search Engines Subject Directories MetaSearch Tools A search engine is a computer program that is used to find or locate information on the internet. It includes Google, Infospace, Bing, info, Yahoo! Search, DuckDuckGo, Ask, Blekko, Aol Search, Contenko, Wow, Dogpile, Webcrawler, Alhea, My WebSearch Subject Directories are generally smaller and selective than search engines. They use categories to focus your search, and their sites are arranged by categories, not just by keywords.
A good example of a search directory is Yahoo, a combination search
engine/search directory/search portal, or one of the original search directories, Open Directory or DMOZ for short. A metasearch engine is also known as an aggregator. It is a search tool that uses another search engines data to produce their own results from the Internet. Examples of Meta-search Engines include Blingo, yippy(formerly Clusty), DeeperWeb, Dogpile, Excite, HotBot, Info.com, Ixquick(StartPage), Kayak and sidestep, Mamma, metacrawler, Mobissimo, Otalo, PCH Search and Win, Skyscanner, WebCrawlerr Web Utilities Web utilities are specialized utility programs that make the use of the Internet and the Web easier and safer. There are two categories of web utilities: Plug-ins Programs that automatically load and operate as part of your browser. Many web sites require plug-ins for users to fully experience web page contents. Some plug-ins are included in many of todays browsers; others must be installed. Some widely used plug-ins are: Shockwave Quicktime Helper Applications (add-ons) Independent programs that can be executed or launched from your browser. Four types of helper applications are: Off-line browsers automatically connect you to selected web sites, download HTML documents and save them to your hard disk. Example: FlashSite Information pushers automatically gather information on topics areas (channels) and send them to your hard disk Examples: PointCast Backweb Off-line search utilities automatically submit your search request to several search engines. receive the results, sort them, and eliminate duplicates Examples: Metacrawler Dogpile Filters Programs that can allow parents or organizations to block out selected sites. they can monitor usage and generate reports detailing time spent on activities. Examples: Cyber Patrol Cybersitter NetNanny File Transfer Utilities File transfer utilities copy files to (downloading) and from (uploading) your computer. Three types are : File transfer protocol (FTP) and secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) Web-based file transfer services make use of a Web browser to upload and download files. BitTorrent distributes file transfers across many different computers. Intranet Extranet An intranet is a computer An extranet is a private network that uses Internet network that uses Internet Protocol technology to share technology and the public information, operational systems, or telecommunication system to computing services within an securely share part of a organization. business's information or operations with suppliers, An intranet is also basically a vendors, partners, customers, or network that is local to a company other businesses. An intranet can include Local Area An extranet is also an Networks (LANs), private Wide extended intranet, a network Area Networks (WANs) and between organizations. Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). Firewall A firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. It typically establishes a barrier between a trusted, secure internal network and another outside network, such as the Internet, that is assumed not to be secure or trusted. It is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication. It is also a device or set of devices configured to permit, deny, encrypt, decrypt, or proxy all computer traffic between different security domains based upon a set of rules and other criteria. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both.