Making Life and Communication
Easier
Neka Anyaogu
History of the Internet
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It is a collection of networks that links
millions of businesses, government
agencies, schools, and people
worldwide.
Was started in 1969 as part of
ARPANET, a large network.
How Can You Access and Connect
to the Internet?
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Through schools, businesses,
public institutions (i.e.
library), and from home.
Internet connections can be
done through dial-up
access, cable television, DSL,
ISDN (the latter are high
speed connections), ISP
(Internet service provider),
OSP (online service
provider), and the newest
way is by WSP (wireless
service provider).
What Are the Components of
a Web Address?
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It consists of a worldwide collection of
electronic documents (web pages).
Each web page has a web address or URL
(Uniform Resource Locator).
A Web address consists of a protocol that
defines how the page transfers on the web, a
domain name, and sometimes the path to a
specific Web page.
What is the Purpose of a Web
Browser
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It’s an application software that allows
users to access and view Web pages.
How Can You Search for
Information on the Web?
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Use of a search engine that finds web pages
and web sites (a collection of related web
pages and associated items).
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Common search engines are Yahoo.com and
Google.com
Type a keywords in the search engine’s text
box in order to find web pages.
What Are the Types of Web
Sites?
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A portal, which is a web site that offers a
variety of internet services from a single
location. The following are a variety of
websites and their uses:
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News web sites offers newsworthy information.
An informational web site offers information and facts.
A business/marketing web site has information that
promotes or sells products or services.
An educational web site offers info on informational teaching
and learning.
How Do E-Mail, Newsgroups, Mailing
Lists, Chat Rooms, and Instant
Messaging Work?
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Emails (short for electronic mail) is the
transmission of messages and files via a
computer network.
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Sites where e-mail addresses can be
formed include: hotmail.com, yahoo.com,
msn.com, aol.com, and netscape.com.
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A newsgroup is an online area in which users
have written about a particular subject.
A Mailing List is a group of e-mail names and
addresses given a single name, so everyone
on the list can receive a message sent to the
list.
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A chat room is a location on an internet
server that permits users to chat.
Instant Messaging (IM) is a real-time
Internet communications service that
notifies you when one or more people
are online.
Web Publishing:
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Web Publishing is the development and
maintenance of Web pages.
There are five major steps for Web
Publishing:
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Plan a website
Analyze and design a web site
Create a web site
Deploy a web site
Maintain a web site
Analyze and Design a Web
Site:
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This step involves designing the layout
of elements of the web site such as the
text, graphics, audio, and virtual reality.
This may include hardware such as a
digital camera, scanner, sound card,
and microphone.
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You can also download images from the
internet.
Creating a Web Site:
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This step is also called Web page authoring.
This step involves working directly with a
computer, and using software for web page
authoring.
 Web page authoring software is designed
specifically to help you to create web pages.
 Some popular Web page authoring software
include:
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Microsoft FrontPage
Adobe GoLive
Lotus FastSite
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Deploy a Web Site:
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This step involves storing the web site
you’ve created onto a web server.
Once a web server is located,the web
site needs to be uploaded from the web
site on your computer and put onto the
web server.
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By registering your web site with different
search engines, others will be able to
access your web site.
Maintaining a Web Site:
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A medium used to maintain web sites is
Webmaster.
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Webmaster is also used to create web
pages.
Webmaster and other Web developers
allow you to add and modify web pages
within the web site.
Additional Information
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Look for internet literacy books.
Ask someone who is internet savvy and
literate.
Ask Professor Redmond.