Chapter 2 : Fundamentals of the World Wide Web and Internet

Objective Overview

• Discussion of evolution of the internet
• Identifying various of broadband internet connection and differences between broadband internet connection and dial-up connections
• Describing the types of internet access providers
• The purpose of of an IP address and its relationship to a domain name
• Explaining the purpose of a Web browser and identify the components of a Web address
• To describe the usage of a search engine an differentiate between search engine and a subject directory
• Describe the types of Web sites
• Evaluate how Web pages use multimedia
• Identifying the briefly describe the steps require for Web publishing
• Describe the types of e-commerce
• Explain how e-mail,mailing lists,instant messaging ,chat rooms, VoIP,newsgroup  and message board,and FTP work
• Identify the rules of netiquette

• The internet is a worldwide collection of networks that links millions of businesses, government offices, educational institutions, and individuals. Data is transferred over the internet using servers, which are computers that manage network resources and provide centralized storage areas, and clients which are computers that can access the contents of the storage areas.
• Each computer or device on a communications line has a numeric address called IP    ( Internet Protocol ).
• Domain name is the text version of the IP address. The DNS ( domain name system) servers translates the domain name into its associated IP address when you specify the domain name, so data can route to the computer. 
• Top level domain is used to classify the websites based on their purposes. For example, "com" for commercial organisations, business and companies. And 'edu' for educational institutions.
• There are many types of websites such as portal, news, blog, wiki or entertainment.Multimedia is a combination of graphics, animation, audio, video and virtual reality.

1. Graphic is pictures of arts or graph.
2. Animation is motion created by numerous graphic.
3. Audio is any sound.
4. Video is a record of moving visual images.
5. Video reality is computer generated simulation of a three dimensional space.

• Plug-in is a software that can be added to web browser for better performance or more task that can be performed.
• E-commerce is business transaction completed over electronic network. For example, online banking or online shopping.
• E-mail is electronic mailing. Users can send message or document to another users via internet.
• Instant messaging (IM) is a real time internet communication service, example wechat, whatsapp , line and etc.
• Voice over IP (VoIP) allow users to speak with each other through internet. 
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard protocol used to transfer computer files between a client and server on a computer network. It allow users to upload or download files.