IN T E R N E T

Terminologies
Web Browser
This is an application you use to view
websites. There are many web browsers
for example, Internet Explorer, Firefox
and Safari.
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Mobile Web
Accessing the web through a browser on a
mobile phone.
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Search Engine
Software that helps you find what you are
looking for on the web. Google uses a
search engine to find relevant results.
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Hyperlink
Pages on the web are linked together via
clickable links. These are called
hyperlinks.
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Broadband
A faster way of accessing content on the
web. You generally pay a telecom operator
a fee to get broadband
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Wifi
WiFi is a way of accessing the web
without any physical connection. So, you
can have a laptop, for example, connected
to the web but not plugged in and no
network cable connected.
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Wireless Hotspot
A place where you can get access to a
wireless network.
What is internet?
 Internet
is a worldwide collection of networks, gateways,
servers and computers using a common set of
telecommunications protocols to link them together.
 Internet
-is a worldwide collection of networks, gateways,
servers and computers using a common set of
telecommunications protocols to link them together.
-originally called ARPANET
 Internet
-its best known feature, the world wide web, presents
rich content, including multimedia clips and even live
radio and video. You view this content on web pages
by using web browser. When you open a web
browser, the first page you see is also called your
home page .
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-each web page has a specific address, sometimes
known as a URL(Uniform Resource Locator). Yo can
type the address to go directly to the page. It indicates
a number of thingsL for example, with
http://www.microsoft.com, HTTP or Hypertext
Transfer Protocol, tells your computer how to
communicable with the internet computer.
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-WWW indicates that the site is on the world wide
web. The .com suffix indicates a commercial site as
edu is used for educational institutions or.org for
other organizations.
Internet Services &
Tools
 ElectronicMail (e-
mail)
-is a fast and efficient way of communications.
example:
E-mailProgram (jabanes@cal.net.ph)
Web-Based E-mail (dvois@yahoo.com)
Free Dial-Up E-mail (dvois@edsamail.com.ph)
World Wide Web (WWW)
-describes a cross-platform, interactive network of
internet sites that offer interconnected document
access. Also known as the WWW or simply the web,
the WWW support as variety of data formats.
World Wide Web (WWW)
-it was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992 and
inspired bt Ted Nelson’s Xanadu and the hypertext
concept, www is an extension of the gopher idea with
many improvements.
 Chat
-is a virtual community where people from all over
the world can communicate on-line by exchanging
text data at almost real time.