2. What is Internet
The INTERNET is a network of computers, which links
many different types of computers all over the world.
3. Requirement for connection to Internet
To connect to the internet the following are the requirement:
A computer
An account with an internet service provider
A modem
A telephone line
A computer should an IBM Pentium PC or a compatible one
with Windows 95/98 or later version as the operation
system.
4. Uses of Internet
On-line communication
Software sharing
Exchange of views on topics of common interest
Posting of information of general interest
Product promotion and feedback about products
Customer support service
On-line journals, magazines, Encyclopedia, and dictionary
On-line shopping
World-wide conferencing
5. Advantage of Internet
Allows easy and quick access to information
Enables user to access files and information from any
computer anywhere in the world
People can check financial information, purchase products,
talk to people and much more online
Downloading music- quick and easy
User can send information quickly from computer to
computer
6. Web Browser
A web browser is special communication program that
allows your computer to access, download and view Web
pages
The first graphical web browser was NCSA Mosaic. It was
developed in National Center for Supercomputing
application, University of Illinois, in USA in the early 1990s.
8. Website
Most of the is stored in the internet is organized in same
way as are pages in a book.
This books are called website. A website is actually a
certain amount of memory space allotted to an organization
in a computer (also called virtual space) at specific location
where the information stored about the organization.
A website is consist of web pages, information maybe in
single page or multiple pages.
9. Internet Search Engine
Internet search engine is an application, which helps users
to locate Web sites containing useful information and
references.
A user types the description of the information using the
user interference of the search engine.
The search engine then searches the requested information
on the WWW and returns the results to the user.
Results enable the user to locate the requested quickly
from the last ocean of information available on the internet.