INTERNET

INTERNET

It is the largest network in the world that connects people all over the world. With this it connect business partners, supplier, customers and all departments. As we all know we use internet to access information or find general information like

Send or receive files between computers

Share resources

To correspond/ meet with people

Shop for product and services

History shows that internet was formally called

ARPANET when it was invented in 1969 and the name was changed to INTERNET in 1980.

Services on the internet are EMAIL. It is electronic mail allowed message to be exchanged from computer to computer. Email program which is used to create, send, receive, forward,

Store, print and delete email. Examples

Yahoo, Gmail, MSN and Hotmail.

WEB: It was created by Tim Berneve Lee and it

Contains hypertext links or highlighted keywords and images that lead to related information. WEBSITE: Collection of documents and webpage is document. Web has hypertext

Markup language for displaying webpages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

Before one can access the web there must be

Internet connection

Internet services Provider

Browser  to access the web.        

 ISP is commercial organization that sells temporary 

  To subscribers. Examples MTN, Digi, Maxis, Microsoft network......and so on

Web Browser is software program that are used to view web page. Example-Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet explorer.......and so on

Web Servers are computers delivers web pages and every web servers has an IP address and possibly a domain name.

Web Client is your computer

TRANSFER PROTOCOL

The transfer protocol is the set of rules or software that the computer use to move files from one computer to another on the internet. It has Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP) which is common transfer protocol used on the internet and it also uses FTP.

Web Browser works by using the Hypertext transfer protocol to request a special encoded text document from the server