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    The document discusses the internet, how it was developed from ARPANET, its major services like email, file transfer protocol, chat, and the world wide web. It describes how email allows instant transmission of documents and images. It explains that the world wide web uses hypertext and hypertext markup language to create webpages that are interconnected. Social media focuses on communication, sharing, and collaboration. The internet provides advantages like access to vast information through search engines and ability to research from home, but also disadvantages like wrong information and online predators.

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    THE INTERNET

    And its uses


    What is the internet?

    • The internet is a network of computers linking many different


    computers all over the world

    • It makes it possible for millions of users around the world to


    connect each other via telephone lines, Electronic mail, social
    media, etc.
    How was the internet developed?
    • The internet was born in the late 1960’s

    • The internet has its roots in the ARPANET system of the U.S.
    department of defense which linked together mainframe
    computers to form a communication network

    • ARPANET is known as the forefather of the internet


    The internet’s major services
    • Electronic mail(E-Mail)
    Instantaneous transmission of documents
    • File transfer protocol(FTP)
    Send and receive files
    • Chat
    Public real time conversation
    • World wide web
    An interconnected system of public webpages accessible through the
    Internet
    Electronic mail
    • Its is known as E-mail in short
    • It allows users to send and receive a
    mail(message)

    • It is faster than paper mail

    • Images, videos and audio can


    be sent along with the text
    World wide web
    • It is the most popular method of
    accessing the internet
    • It uses a method called hypertext

    • Hypertext documents on the internet are


    known as web pages
    • Web pages are created by using a special language
    called Hyper Text Markup Language(html)
    Social Media
    • It is a collective term for
    websites and applications that
    focus on communication,
    community-based input,
    interaction, content-sharing and
    collaboration
    Online Communication
    Online marketing
    Finding information
    Getting the latest news
    Advantages
    • Information on almost any subject
    imaginable
    • Powerful search engines
    • Ability to do research from home instead
    of having to go to libraries
    • Ability to contact your friends and family anywhere at
    anytime
    Disadvantages
    • There is a lot of wrong information on the
    internet. Anyone can post anything

    • There are a lot of predators on the


    internet who are just waiting to get
    unsuspecting people in dangerous
    situations
    • Addiction and distraction
    THANK YOU

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