Internet

On 10&11 weeks the topic of our classes was Internet. It is global information system and  largest network in the world that connects people/organization all over the world. And it has no formal management organization.

There are different reasons why people use the Internet. This is some of them:

• Find general information /Access Information.
• Send (upload) or receive (down load) files between computers.
• Participate in discussion groups, such as mailing lists and newsgroups.
• To Correspond/meet with people
• To learn, read news, find software, buy things

What is web?

• The World Wide Web also known as web.
• It contains hypertext links, or highlighted keywords and images that lead to related information.
• A collection of linked Web pages that has a common theme or focus is called a Web site.
• The main page that all of the pages on a particular Web site are organized around and link back to is called the site’s home page.

Web Browsers

• Is a software program that is used to view web page.
• Web browser works by using a protocol called Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to request a specially encoded text document from server.
• Examples of Web browser: Netscape Navigator (Navigator) and Internet Explorer

Internet Protocol

• set of rules, or protocol that allow user to transfer file from one computer to another.
• the most common transfer protocol used on the Internet is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• HTTP: set of rules, or protocol that enables hypertext data to be transferred from one computer to another
• allow user to retrieve a wide variety of resources such as text, graphics, sound animation and other documents
• is a protocol used  to access data on web