Monday, 14 April 2014

10 major learning points on 57-slides Internet & WWW

The 10 major learning points I have learnt from the 57 slides on internet and WWW created by Mr Cheong are:


  1. Many services can be found on the internet e.g.
  • Electronic Mail
  • World Wide Web
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Chat Rooms
  • Mailing List
  • Instant Messaging
  • Webpages
  2.History of the internet
  • ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
  • The Pentagon's goal for doing this was to allow scientists at different locations to share
  • information.
  • Became functional in September 1969
  • Only made public in 1993
  • Created by more than one person:
  • Vannevar Bush 
  • J.C.R Licklider
  • The programme manager of ARPANET :Larry Roberts. 
  • Robert Kahn 
  • Vinton Cerf 
  • Paul Baran
  • Donald Davies 
  • Leonard Kleinrock.
Below is a timeline of how the internet has evolved:

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       3.The World Wide Web(WWW)

  • A worldwide collection of electronic documents
  • Each electronic document is called a webpage
  • Can contain text, graphics, sound, video, and built-in connections
  • A Web site is a collection of related Web pages


      4. Web Browser

  • Program that allows you to view Web pages 



   5. URL
  • Uniform Resource Locator. 
  • It is a unique address for a Web page.


  6. Link
  • Built-in connection to another related Web page location
  • Item found elsewhere on same Web page
  • Web page at a different Web site
  • Different Web page at same Web site
 How can you recognize links? 
  • Pointer changes to a small hand when you point to link
  • A link can be text or an image
  • Text links are usually underlined and in a different color

  7. Subject Directory
  • Search tool with organized set of topics and subtopics
  • Lets you find information by clicking links rather than entering keywords

  8. Hit
  • Any Web site name that is listed as the result of a search

  9. 9 basic types of websites on the internet
ØPortal
ØNews
ØInformational
ØBusiness/Marketing
ØEducational
ØEntertainment
ØAdvocacy
ØBlog
ØPersonal

10. Netiquette 
  • Code of acceptable behaviors users should follow while on the Internet
  • Golden Rule: Treat others as
    you would like them to treat you.

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