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Internet 101 The Basics

• Winter 2000

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The Internet

• What is it?
• Where did it come from? Who owns it? Who runs it?
• Statistics

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Characteristics

• Global Communication
• Immediate
• Interactive
• Information
• Saves time and money

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Benefits and Advantages

• Communication
• - Email
• - Usenet
• - Chat
• - Voice
• - Mailing Lists
• - Telnet

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• Information and Retrieval
• - FTP
• - GOPHER
• - WAIS
• - WWW
• - Favorites and History List
  

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• Research
• - How to tell good sites from bad
• Distribution
• Cost Savings
• Security
• Software

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Finding What You Want

• URLs
• Other Address Features - http, www, telnet,
  domain names, countries
• Browsers (Netscape, Internet Explorer)
• Search Engines and Multi-Search Engines

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What Slows It Down?

• Line
• Number of Users
• Hardware
• Time of Day

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Creating a Homepage

• Using Hypertext Markup Language
• Using Word 2000
• Using Publisher 2000
• Using Front Page
• Using Arachnophilia

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Hypertext Markup LanguageBeginning TagsEnding
Tags

• lthtmlgt
• ltheadgt
• ltbodygt
• lttitlegt
• ltpgt
• ltbrgt
• lth1gt
• ltbgt
• ltIgt
• ltugt
• lta href

• lt/htmlgt
• lt/headgt
• lt/bodygt
• lt/titlegt
• lt/h1gt
• lt/bgt
• lt/Igt
• lt/ugt
• lt/agt