This document defines and explains key internet terms including email, newsgroups, internet relay chat, file transfer protocol, upload vs download, hypertext transfer protocol, hypertext markup language, web browsers, web servers, web pages, websites, blogging, and more. It provides details on what each term means and how it relates to using the internet and world wide web.

1. INTERNET TERMS

2. INTERNET TERMS
 1. E –mail
 2. Newsgroups
 3. Internet Relay Chat
 4. TelNet
 5. File Transfer Protocol
 6. Upload vs. Download
 7. World Wide Web
 8. Web Browser
 9. HTTP or HTTPS
 10. HyperText Markup Language

3. TERMS CONT’D
 11. XHTML
 12. Web Page
 13. Web Site
 14. Blogging
 15. Web Server

4. E - MAIL
 E – mail is the shortened form of
Electronic mail.
 E- mails are messages which can be sent
from one computer to another anywhere
in the world.
 They are sent by having an e – mail
address and knowing the e – mail address
of the recipient of the e – mail.
 They don’t have to be formal or
structured like letters.

5.  They are transmitted immediately as the
“send” button is selected as opposed to
normal mailing services that take days to
get mail from one person to another.
 Pictures, videos and sound files can be
attached to e – mail messages.
 E- mails may carry viruses.
 Many people send spam (unwanted) mails
to others.

6. QUICK FACTS ABOUT E- MAILS
 More than 294 billion e – mails are sent
and received daily.
 90% of the trillions of e – mails sent are
spam mails or viruses.
 3.5 million e- mails are sent per second.

7. NEWSGROUPS
 A newsgroup is an online discussion
where users with common interests ;
anywhere in the world, share their views
and opinions on particular topics/ issues.
 In newsgroups, questions can be asked as
well as recommendations made.
 URLs for newsgroups begin with news and
is followed by the name of the
newsgroups.

8.  An example of a newsgroup is:
 - news. Admin.net – abuse.email
 Newsgroups are often used for marketing
of small businesses.
 Unfortunately, just like e-mail, you can
receive junk mail in newsgroups because
there are many newsgroups that are
unmoderated. Do you know what that
means?

9. INTERNET RELAY CHAT
 Commonly referred to as IRC.
 Used for communication whether in
groups or individually.
 It is simply “text messaging” over the
Internet.
 They handle the exchange of comments
between two or more Internet users at
any one time.

10.  Can you guess the most common IRC
service ?????
 *Drum Roll*
 If you said, MSN messenger then you are
absolutely RIGHT :D!

11. UPLOAD VS. DOWNLOAD
 The term “upload” means to transmit data
from a local system to a remote system
such as a server or another client.
 While the term “download” refers to the
process of retrieving data from a remote
system to a local system.
 We upload pictures to Facebook and we
download notes sent to us by our teachers
on Edmodo.

12. HTTP vs HTTPS
 HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer
Protocol. It's the first element you see in
any URL and you can think of it as the
language used to deliver information over
the web. Most web browsers (including
Internet Explorer) use an encrypted
protocol called Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) to access secure webpages. These
pages use the prefix HTTPS. The "s"
stands for secure.

13. WEB SERVER
 A Web server is a computer system that
hosts websites.
 The primary function of a web server is to
deliver web pages on the request
to clients using the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP). This means delivery
of HTML documents and any additional
content that may be included by a
document, such as images, style
sheets and scripts.

14. WEB BROWSER
 Browser, short for web browser, is a
software application used to enable
computers users to locate and access web
pages.
 Browsers translates the HTML code that
allows us to see images, text videos and
listen to audios on websites, along with
hyperlinks that let us travel to different
web pages.

15. WHAT IS A WEBSITE?
 A website is a collection of web pages
(documents that are accessed through the
Internet).
 A website can consist of one page, or of
tens of thousands of pages, depending on
what the site owner is trying to
accomplish.
 Examples of websites:
http://www.ehow.com, http://www.

16. WHAT IS A WEBPAGE?
 A web page is what you see on the screen
when you type in a web address, click on
a link, or put a query in a search engine.
 A web page can contain any type of
information, and can include text, colour,
graphics, animation and sound.

17. BLOGGING
 A web log, often shortened to "blog," is a
web page that contains dated posts, by one
or multiple users, often pertaining to a
particular topic.
 "Blogging" is the act of writing in a blog.
 You can start a blog on any topic, including
yourself. Most blogs are a mix of
commentary, personal notes and links to
other websites. You can write in-depth essays
on serious subjects, or you can use blogging
as a form of journal writing, posting thoughts
on the movie you saw last night.

18. HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
 Shortened form – HTML
 HTML is the "language" that web pages
are written in.
 Hyper is the opposite of linear. Old-
fashioned computer programs were
necessarily linear - that is, they had a
specific order. But with a "hyper"
language such as HTML, the user can go
anywhere on the web page at any time.

19.  Text is just what you're looking at now -
English characters used to make up
ordinary words.
 Mark-up is what is done to the text to
change its appearance. For instance,
"marking up" your text with <b> before it
and </b> after it will put that text in bold.

20. XHTML
 Means Extensible Hypertext Markup
Language.
 Uses a different syntax from HTML.
 Is stricter than HTML.
 Was designed to make HTML more
extensible.

21. TELNET
 Telnet is a remote login service provided
by dedicated computer networks on the
Internet.
 Where modems are limited, in the
majority, by the quality of telephone lines
and a single connection, telnet provides a
connection that's error-free and nearly
always faster than the latest conventional
modems.

22. FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL
 Shortened form – FTP
 FTP allows you to transfer files between
two computers on the Internet.
 Some users use FTP to download updates
to popular software as well as it can also
be used to upload files to websites.