2. The Internet

3. What is the Internet? The Internet is a lot of computers over the whole world connected together so that they can share information. It is a network of networks that links schools, homes and businesses together. If your computer is connected to the Internet, it can connect to millions of other computers, in many different parts of the world. Since all these computers are connected to one another, all over the world, it's easy for information to be passed from place to place. That's how email works - and chat rooms and newsgroups and all that. People all around the world are using their computers to connect to other computers and exchange information.

5. Some ways to use the Internet E-mail Research Shopping News Games Skyward

6. How often do you use the Internet?

7. Why do you generally use the Internet?

8. Internet Terms WWW Browser Search Engine URL Domain html

9. WWW The World Wide Web (WWW) is the information, games and programs on the Internet. The World Wide Web has colors and pictures and sounds and movies.

10. Browser Software program that allows a person to view WWW documents. Examples of browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

11. Let’s Look at some examples of some browsers.

12. Search Engine A web site that will help you search the Internet for key words, subjects, etc.

13. Let’s try a search now!

14. URL UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR- The unique address of any web page. It tells your computer where the information is stored so it can be viewed. Example: http://www.google.comhttp://www.google.com

15. Domain A way to indicate what type of site you may be viewing. In the U.S. some common domains are.com-commercial,.org- non-profit and research organizations,.gov- government agency,.edu- education. More are constantly being added so theses should only be used as guidelines to help you know what type of site you are on.

16. What is the Domain for the School Districts web site?

17. html The Language used to create Web Pages

19. Internet Email Addresses The Local part is the name of a special file stored on the mail server called the user’s mailbox The Domain name is resolved using DNS The mail server is also known as a mail exchanger Local part Domain name of mail server @ mel.ralph@wlv.ac.uk

20. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) HTTP is the protocol used to access resources on the World Wide Web A browser application is used to send a request to the WWW server for a resource, e.g. a web page, graphics file, audio file, etc. The server responds by sending the resource (a file) to the client and closing the connection Request Browser app WWW server The Internet (TCP/IP) The Internet (TCP/IP) Web page