1. Internet Basics مهندس / محمد العنزي mohalenezi@gmail.com http://alenzi.wordpress.com/

4. What is the Internet? The Internet is a collection of millions of computers, all linked together on a network to communicate. A home computer is usually linked to the Internet using a normal phone line and a modem that talks to an Internet Service Provider (ISP)

5. The Internet is the largest and most well known computer network in the world. Internet is made up of  ISP's (internet service provider)  Regional networks (large network)  Backbone networks (major high-speed network)  Web servers

8. Wireless network

9. The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). The U.S. Department of Defense laid the foundation with a network called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency)

10. ARPANET was a network that connected major computers at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah. Within a couple of years, several other educational and research institutions joined the network In response to the threat of nuclear attack, ARPANET was designed to allow continued communication if one or more sites were destroyed.

11. What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web came into being in 1991, by developer Tim Berners-Lee and others created the protocol based on hypertext Early on, the Internet was limited to noncommercial uses By the end of 1992, the first commercial online service provider, Delphi

12. The history of Internet 1965 - the U.S. Defense research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. The objective was to develop communication protocols 1968 - First generation of networking hardware and software designed 1969 - ARPANET connects first 4 universities in the United States 1970 – 1973 ARPANET successes to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, email quickly becomes the most popular application. 1971 - The ARPANET grows to 23 hosts connecting universities and government research centers around the country. 1973 - The ARPANET goes international with connections to University College in London, England and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway. 1982 - The term 'Internet' is used for the first time. 1982 – 87 Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are key members of a team which creates TCP/IP, the common language of all Internet computers

13. 1986, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated the development of the NSFNET which, today, provides a major backbone communication service for the Internet 1991 - The World Wide Web is born! 1993 - Mosaic, the first graphics-based Web browser 1995 - NSFNET reverts back to a research project, leaving the Internet in commercial hands 1996 - Nearly 10 million hosts online. The Internet covers the globe

14. Terms to Be Familiar With: Browser--Contains the basic software you need in order to find, retrieve, view, and send information over the Internet. Download To copy data from a remote computer to a local computer. Upload—To send data from a local computer to a remote computer. E-mail - E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. E-mail can be distributed to lists of people as well as to individuals. However, you can also send non-text files, such as graphic images and sound files, as attachments sent in binary streams. Home Page - The beginning "page" of any site. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) - The coding language used to create documents for use on the World Wide Web. There are three- letter suffixes used in coding that help to identify the type location one is viewing

15. HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) - the set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web. Hypertext - Generally any text that contains "links" to other text. Search Engine - A web server that collects data from other web servers and puts it into a database (much like an index), it provides links to pages that contain the object of your search. TCP/IP -- TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that you may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP.

16. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) - The Internet address. The prefix of a URL indicates which area of the Internet will be accessed. URLs look differently depending on the Internet resource you are seeking. WWW (World Wide Web) - A technical definition of the World Wide Web is: all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).