Friday 12 April 2013

Internet


INTERNET 


In 1690 the internet used to be called Arpanet till in 1969 where people started calling it internet. It is important to know that no single person who owns internet. Basically internet is the largest network that connects people or organization around the world. Usually internet is used to find or access information. To send or receive files, to chart with friends or conferencing, shopping and etc. there are seven main services of internet:
The email: electronic mail. It allows messages to be exchanged from computer to computer.  Email Program is used to create, send, receive, forward, store, print and delete email. Examples, Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Hotmail etc.
The web is a collection of linked Web pages that has a common theme or focus is called a Web site. While a Website is a Collection of the documents. Markup language for displaying web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser
Transfer protocol: The transfer protocol is the set of rules or software that the computers use to move files from one computer to another on the Internet.
Chat rooms which are like mediums between to people connect by internet and lastly the news group (online chat or conference for a specific topic) and the VoIP. VoIP is to use a call on internet like Skype, messenger, etc.  
Before we moved on to web application the teacher gave us a brief knowledge about the bibliography and how to write references using APA style.

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