UCC BIS

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UCC BIS

• Glenn Goggin
• Michael Mahony
• Colm Madden
• Aidan ONeill

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• http//bis.ucc.ie/

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Internet and Worldwide Web (WWW)
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• Question?
• How many people roughly use the Internet?

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Answer

• As of June 30, 2008, 1.463 billion people use the
  Internet according to Internet World Stats.

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• What is the Internet?

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What is the Internet?Is it?
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The Internet is

• a large global network of hundreds of thousands
  of private and government computers permanently
  connected to each other
• enables you to move information around the planet
  at great speed and minimal cost

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The Internet is

• Neither owned nor controlled by any government or
  body
• By 'logging on' to the Internet, you temporarily
  connect your PC to this network and are then able
  to send or receive information either to the
  computers on it or to other people like yourself
  who are temporarily connected to it

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The Internet

• carries on without you when you 'log off
• will change your life because now, from the
  comfort of your home or office, you can research
  and download educational, entertainment or
  commercial information on a scale never before
  known to mankind

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The Internet

• The history of the Internet began with the
  ARPANET and connected mainframe computers on
  dedicated connections.

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The Internet

• The second stage involved adding desktop PCs
  which connected through telephone wires.

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The Internet

• The third stage was adding wireless connections
  to laptop computers.

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Mobiles Connectivity

• And currently the Internet is evolving to allow
  mobile phone Internet connectivity ubiquitously
  using cellular networks.
• Eg iPhone

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Question

• What was the first phone to have Internet
  Connectivity?

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Answer

• The first mobile phone to have Internet
  connectivity was the Nokia 9000 Communicator,
  launched in Finland in 1996.

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Email

• E-mail is often called the killer application of
  the Internet. However, it actually predates the
  Internet and was a crucial tool in creating it.
  E-mail started in 1965 as a way for multiple
  users of a time-sharing mainframe computer to
  communicate.

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Email

• In 2001 the mobile phone based email system by
  Blackberry and its iconic phones were launched in
  America.

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Question?

• What is the component in a laptop that allows you
  to access wireless networks?

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Answer

• Wireless mini PCI Card

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Search Engines

• A Web search engine is a tool designed to search
  for information on the World Wide Web

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Search Engines

• To do
• Using the Internet find the name of three popular
  search engines
• ____________
• ____________
• ____________

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Search engines
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To Do

• Using the Internet can you find out what each of
  the following stand for?
• WWW
• URL
• HTTP
• FTP
• Have you seen or heard of these before? Where?

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Answers

• World Wide Web(WWW)
• Uniform Resource Locators(URL)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)