The Internet and The Web

Chapter 1 - The Internet and World
Wide Web
Publishing on the World Wide Web
Prepared by: Mr. Jan Mark S. Garcia Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Objectives:
 At the end of the topic session, the students should be able
to:
 LO1: Describe how Web is accessed using providers and
browsers;
 LO2: Differentiate Web Utilities;
 LO3: Compare forms of Internet communications; and
 Lo4: Create an FTP server that can share files.
1. The Internet
1.1 History and Evolution
 INTERNET– an interconnected network of
networks that link computer to computer using
protocol.
 It was called ARPANET in 1969 as a research
network by Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA) of the US Defence Department.
 ARPANET development resulted from a
collaboration among universities, industry, and
government.
1. The Internet
 World Wide Web (WWW) started in 1989 at the
European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) by
Tim Berners-Lee.
 It is a network of computers that serve web
pages that distributed hypermedia information
system on the Internet.
 Information can be organize, link, and access via
client-server protocol.
2. The World Wide Web
2.1 Web Standard
 World Wide Web(WWW) is a part of the Internet that
consists of Internet connected computers called Web
Servers that store electronic documents called Web Pages.
 Web Page is a specially formatted document that can
contain images, text, interactive elements, and hyperlinks,
which links to other pages.
 Web Site is a group of related Web Pages.
 A web site’s primary page known as Home Page, typically
introduces the web site and provide information about the
site’s purpose and content.
2. The World Wide Web – Cont.
 A hyperlink, or simply known as link, is a word, phrase or
image that connects web pages.
 Exploring the Web by jumping from one Web page to another

is sometimes called browsing or surfing the web.
3.Ways to Access the Internet and the
web
 In the past, the most common way to access the Internet was
using a dial-up telephone line. Today, faster access methods,
including digital dedicated lines, cable broadband, and
wireless transmissions.
 The speed at which data travel from one device to another is
called the transfer rate, which is expressed as bits per
second (bps) – that is, the number of bits the line can
transmit in one second.
web – Cont.
3.1 Fixed and Mobile Wireless Access
 Fixed wireless is Internet connectivity service that uses
satellite technology.
web – Cont.
 Mobile wireless is Internet connectivity service that uses
radio signals or wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi).
 Wi-Fi provides wireless connectivity to devices within a
certain range.
web – Cont.
 3G and 4G are wireless internet technology. The ‘G’ stand
for generation.
 3G device must support speech and data services, while 4G
systems will support gaming and stream multimedia.
web – Cont.
web – Cont.
3.2 Internet Service Providers
 Internet Services Providers (ISP) is a business that has a
permanent Internet connection and provides temporary
Internet connections to individuals and companies using one
or more access method: dial-up, high-speed dial-up,
broadband, or wireless
web – Cont.
3.3 Web Browsers
 To view Web pages, you need a Web Browser.
 Web Browser is a software program that requests,
downloads, and displays Web pages stored on Web Server.
web – Cont.
 You can access a Web page by entering its unique address,
called the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), in a
browser’s address bar.
 URL consist of a domain name and top-level domain designation.
 Many URLs also included, folder and files names are
separated by forward slash characters following the top-level
domain designation.
web – Cont.
 A URL identifies a computer on the Internet
protocol domain name folder
http://www.ipoh.com/news
web – Cont.
 An IP address is the numeric address for computer
connected to the Internet.
 Every device in a computer network has an IP address.
 A domain name is the text version of a computer’s
numeric IP address.
web – Cont.
 Different between IP Address and Domain Names
IP ADDRESS DOMAIN NAMES

• An identifier for a computer or • A name that identifies one or
device on a TCP/IP network. more IP addresses. For
Networks route messages example, the domain name
based on the IP address of the notifycorp.com represents
destination. The format of an several IP addresses. Domain
IP address is four numbers names are used in URLs to
separated by periods. Each identify particular Web pages.
number can be zero to 255. • For example, in the URL
• For example, 1.140.10.230 http://www.notifycorp.com/i
could be an IP address. ndex.htm, the domain name is
notifycorp.com.
4. Types of Web Sites – Cont.
 Top-level domain (TLD)
 A top-level domain (TLD) designation indicates the type
of organization or general domain.
Top-Level Domain Domain Type
.biz Business
.com Commercial, personal
.edu Education
.gov Government
.mil Military
.net Network providers
.org Non-commercial community
 Some countries have their own TLDs.
.my Malaysia
.sg Singapore
.jp Japan
.us United State
.de German
.fr France
.au Australia
 In URL, the domain name and top-level domain designation are
preceded by a protocol.
 For Web pages, that protocol is the Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP), which is the communications standard
for transmitting Web pages over the Internet.
 Most Web browsers will insert the HTTP protocol
automatically as the requested Web page is downloaded into
the browser.
web – Cont.
3.4 Alternative Web Page Viewing Devices
 In the past, the most common way to view Web pages is using
desktop or laptop.
 Today, you also can view Web pages using handheld computer.
 Handheld computers are wireless, portable computer
designed to fit in a user’s hand.
 A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a type of handheld
computer used to manage personal information and access the
Internet. Today, most PDAs are Smartphone's.
 Smartphone is a mobile phone that offers other features, such as
a camera, calendar, and Internet access for e-mail, music
downloads and access to Web pages in addition to cellular voice
telephone service.
web – Cont.
4. Types of Web Sites
 Web can be categorizes as personal, organizational and
commercial.
 A Web site’s type differs from a Web site’s purpose.
4.1 Personal Web Sites
 Individual create their own personal Web sites for a range of
communication purpose.
 You might use personal Web site to promote your
employment credentials, share news and photos with friends
and family, or share a common interest or hobby with fellow
enthusiasts.
4.2 Organizational Web Sites
 An organizational Web site is one that owned by any type of
group, association, or organization, whether it is professional
or amateur group.
 For example, if you belong to the Advertisement
Photographers Association of North Malaysia, you might
volunteer to create and organizational Web site to promote
member accomplishments or to encourage support and
participation.
4.3 Commercial Web Sites
 The goal of many commercial websites is to promote and sell
products or services of a business, from the smallest home-
based business to the largest international enterprise.
 The design and content of a large enterprise’s Web site might
be much more sophisticated and complex than that of a small
business's Web site.
 Sample of large enterprise Web site
 Sample of small business Web site
5. Other Internet Services
5.1 E-mail
 Short for electronic mail.
 E-mail is a message that may contain text, images, files or other
attachments sent through a network to a specified individual
or group of individuals.
 The first e-mail was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.
5.2 Mailing List
 A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by
an individual or an organization to send material to multiple
recipients.
 An electronic mailing list might have several hundred 'other'
people receiving the same piece of e-mail you do, there could
be thousands of other people.
 In a real sense a mailing list takes one e-mail message that is
sent to it and does a mass-mailing to everyone that has
'subscribed' to the list. To remove your name, you
unsubscribe from the mailing list.
5.3 Instant Messaging
 Instant messaging(IM) is a type of communications
service that enables you to create a kind of private chat room
with another individual in order to communicate in real time
over the Internet.
 It notifies you when one or more people online and then
allows you to exchange messages of files.
 Example:Yahoo Messenger, IRC or MSN instant messenger.
5.4 Chat Rooms
 A designated area or forum on the WorldWideWeb that
allows users to communicate with each other through instant
messaging.
 Text is instantly displayed in the chat rooms
conversation log after a user hits enter or send.
 Other users included in the chat session are able to see what
another user types.
5.5 VoIP
 VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol.
 Sometimes it's referred to as Voice over Networks(VoN) or Voice
over Broadband(VoB) and sometimes Internet Telephony.
 VoIP allows you to make free, or very low cost, telephone
calls over the Internet.
 You can call any telephone in the world and any telephone
can call you - regardless of what equipment or network the
person you are calling uses.
5.6 Newsgroup
 Newsgroups are Internet discussion forums where groups of users
with common interests gather to talk about everything from
software to comic books to politics.
 Unlike e-mail messages, which are visible only to the sender and
specified recipients, newsgroup messages can be read by anyone
who views the group that they're posted in.
 Newsgroups are international in scope, with participants from all
corners of the Internet.
 Before you can view messages in a newsgroup, you'll need a
newsreader program, such as Windows Mail.
 You'll use the newsreader to download messages from a news
server.
5.7 FTP
 Short for File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for
exchanging files over the Internet.
 FTP works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web
pages from a server to a user's browser and SMTP for
transferring electronic mail across the Internet in that, like
these technologies, FTP uses the Internet's TCP/IP protocols
to enable data transfer.
 FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server
using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g.,
uploading a Web page file to a server).
ANY QUESTION?
THANK YOU !

The Internet and The Web

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

The Internet and The Web

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

The Internet and The Web

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Chapter 1 - The Internet and World

 Exploring the Web by jumping from one Web page to another

protocol domain name folder

IP ADDRESS DOMAIN NAMES

You might also like