The Internet 1

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The Internet (1)

• Introduction
• LAN, WWW

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What is the Internet? (1.1)

• ARPA
• UCLA, SRI

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What is the World Wide Web?(WWW)(1.1)

• Sites and Web sites
• Browser
• Home page

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What is a home page?(1.1)

• Hyperlinks/links
• Internet vs Web
• gopher, email, usernet, newsgroups

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Where did the web come from?(1.2.)

• CERN
• HTTP
• HTML
• URL

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Where do Websites come from?(1.2)

• Designer
• MS Frontpage
• HTML
• Dreamweaver

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What are Websites used for?(1.2)

• Product information
• Research
• Email
• News
• Weather
• Business
• Study

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Access Providers(1.3)

• Presence provider or website host
• Dial up access
• SLIP
• PPP

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Types of Access(1.3)

• Direct service providers
• Commercial on-line services

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The Browser(1.4)

• Netscape
• Explorer
• Enter addresses
• Formats web documents
• Backup pages
• Copy text
• Printing
• File transfer
• Email

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Internet addresses-URLs(1.4)

• Pointers
• Structure
• Protocol, domain, folder, fragment
• browsing

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Search engines(1.5)

• Keywords
• Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Dogpile, Google

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Lists,Tours,Maps(1.5)

• Library of congress
• Travel
• Geographical

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Bandwidth(1.6)

• Pipe size
• 56k phone line
• Streaming

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Web sound and Video sounds(1.6)

• Intercast technology
• Internet phone
• IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
• Multimedia
• Plug-ins

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Project

• Download 1 example of the following and save to
  disk text file, graphic file, animation, video
  file, midi file and a wave file. All these
  examples should fit onto a single stiffy disk.
• Reading Curtin - The Breaking Wave Ch. 1
• Work through Try It on page 70 of The Internet
  by Heidi Steele
• Log onto a chat room of your choice and
  participate in a chat group use either Mweb,
  Msn or Yahoo.