Networking Basics and working with the internet.
About ten years ago,people knew a littile about the internet, but today millions of people use it for various purpose.Internet is a worldwide,interconnected system of computer network.Internet was conceived by the advance research project agency(ARPA) of the U.S and was first known as ARPANET. People and organisation connect into internet to access the stored share information.With the help of internet ,People can communicate by sending and receiving electronic mail(e-mail) messages.Though the computer application for instant message,you can communicate with the person who is sitting in the other part of the world in a fraction of second.You can find information on thousand of topics on the internet.You interact with internet through a software application called web browser.
Let us understand some basic terms associated with internet.
WWW: WWW stands for the world wide web.It is a collection of online hypertext documents stored on a server around the world.To view the online documents stored on a server, a user can open a web site by entering the web site address into the web browser.We can navigate between web pages through hyperlinks on a web page.
Hypertext: Hypertext means a document that contains the link to the other document on the world wide web.
Hyperlink: Hyperlink is the reference in a hypertext document that takes you to some other parts of the same document or in another document.We simply say that is an electronic connection between two part of the same web page or two different web pages.
Web Browser:A web browser is a software application that allows you to interact with the information on the world wide web. Windows based operating system comes with a web browser known as Internet explorer.
ISP:ISP stands for Internet service provider is a company or organisation that provide access to the internet .An internet service provider usually has multiple access methods including Dial-up,DSL, cable modem,ISDN etc.
About ten years ago,people knew a littile about the internet, but today millions of people use it for various purpose.Internet is a worldwide,interconnected system of computer network.Internet was conceived by the advance research project agency(ARPA) of the U.S and was first known as ARPANET. People and organisation connect into internet to access the stored share information.With the help of internet ,People can communicate by sending and receiving electronic mail(e-mail) messages.Though the computer application for instant message,you can communicate with the person who is sitting in the other part of the world in a fraction of second.You can find information on thousand of topics on the internet.You interact with internet through a software application called web browser.
Let us understand some basic terms associated with internet.
WWW: WWW stands for the world wide web.It is a collection of online hypertext documents stored on a server around the world.To view the online documents stored on a server, a user can open a web site by entering the web site address into the web browser.We can navigate between web pages through hyperlinks on a web page.
Hypertext: Hypertext means a document that contains the link to the other document on the world wide web.
Hyperlink: Hyperlink is the reference in a hypertext document that takes you to some other parts of the same document or in another document.We simply say that is an electronic connection between two part of the same web page or two different web pages.
Web Browser:A web browser is a software application that allows you to interact with the information on the world wide web. Windows based operating system comes with a web browser known as Internet explorer.
ISP:ISP stands for Internet service provider is a company or organisation that provide access to the internet .An internet service provider usually has multiple access methods including Dial-up,DSL, cable modem,ISDN etc.
