How The Internet Started Exercise 5

HOW THE INTERNET STARTED

1. The Internet was created by combining the ideas and talents of many people and organizations who have made the Internet the valuable resource it is today.

2. ARPANET The U.S. Defense Department created a network that linked military computers together. It was connected in a way that if one section of the network was damaged, the remaining computers on the network would still be able to communicate with each other.

3. The National Science Foundation created NSFNET in the mid 1980's this allowed universities and schools to connect to each other. The National Science Foundation improved the network to allow more information to transfer. This improved high-speed network which became the Internet.

4. Most of the people accessing the Internet were scientists and researchers. In 1990's many companies started to offer access to home users. This allowed anyone with a modem and a computer to access the Internet.

5. The World Wide Web was created in the early 1990's by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The first publicly accessible Web site was created in 1993.

6.By the mid 1990's over 30 million people had access to the Internet . To reach this huge market, most big companies created their own sites on the World Wide Web.

CONNECT TO THE INTERNET

1. You can connect to the Internet using any type of computer such as an IBM=compatible or a Macintosh. The computer must have a modem, to connect to the Internet.

2. You need special software to use the Internet. Most companies that connect you to the Internet offer the software free of charge.

3. Setting up a connection to the Internet can sometimes be confusing. Make sure the company you use to connect to the Internet with has a technical support department find out if you can contact the technical support department in the evenings and on weekends as well as during business hours.

4.You can use a local company or a large national company to connect.

5. These companies are call ISP servers Internet Service Providers. The Internet offers, Electronic Mail, Information, Programs, Entertainment, Discussion Groups, Online Shopping, E-Books.

Exercise 5:

Using www.learnthenet.com don't forget to save this website on your favorites.

Complete the following exercise and send it to me by e-mail.

Intro to the Internet Terms & Concepts.

For each of the terms below, complete the following.

A. Find the Definition/Explanation.

B. How was it found.

1)Internet?

2)Network?

3)Who governs it?

4)Nicknames for it?

5)World Wide Web.

6)What is the difference between Internet & WWW?

What is a Blog (aka Web Log/Weblog)? Exercise#4

What is a Blog?

There are several definitions of what a blog. or weblog (web log) is and/or what it should be. It is a chronologically organized site updated by an individual (or a group of individuals) using these main items in each entry or post:

a) Main Body - where personal commentaries, ideas, and/or stories are typically written in the first person.

b) Date/Time Stamp - show the day and or/ time the entry.

c)Title - to give a general idea of what the entry is all about. However, this is not always used by all bloggers (people who keep blogs).

There are items incorporated in various blogs depending on what each blogger may want in their own blogs. Items include calendar, archives, comments, links.

What is the difference between blogs and websites?

Before pointing out the differences, let's begin by mentioning the three things that blogs and websites have in common: 1) Both are ways to publish information and other data online, 2) Both can be started and kept by any individual who is inclined to do so, and 3) Both have URLs that anyone with an Internet connection can access. However, the similarities end there.

The main difference between the two is that blogs tend to be a lot more dynamic than websites. Blogs are updated on a regular basis with posts or entries that usually contain date/time stamps. Websites, on the other hand, are designed to be static. So, there is no need to update regularly and/or to add the date/time of update. Also websites are updated with pages rather than posts or entries.

Even with WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) tools, some form of formatting knowledge is still required for designing and updating websites. If you already have a blog set up, you just need to write an entry and or post an image, click on a button that says something like publish this entry, and your blog will already be updated, Knowledge of HTML and FTP is optional. (computer programmer language).

Another point of difference is in communities. While websites may maintain community-based tools like message boards and guestbooks, blogs encourage community building much more than websites, what with tools like comments functions, trackbacks, tag boards and other features.

How Internet Cookies Work Lesson #3 (Reading)

What Are Cookies

Cookies are programs that Web sites put on your hard drive. They sit on your computer gathering information about you and everything you do on the Internet, and whenever the Web site wants to it can download all of the information the cookie has collected (wrong)

Definitions like that are fairly common in the press. The problem is, none of that information is correct. Cookies are not programs, and they cannot run like programs do. Therefore, they cannot gather any information on their own. Nor can they collect any personal information about you from your machine.

A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user's hard drive. Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user's machine and later retrieve it.

How Do Web Sites Use Cookies?

Cookies evolved because they solve a big problem for the people who implement Web sites. In the broadest sense, a cookie allows a site to store state information on your machine. such as
How many visitors arrive.
How many are new visitors. repeat visitors.
How often a visitor has visited.
The way the site does this is by using a database. The first time a visitor arrives, the site creates a new ID in the database and sends the ID as a cookie. The next time the user comes back, the site can increment a counter associated with that ID in the database and know how many times that visitor returns.