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The document discusses the history and growth of the internet from a small network connecting four computers for the US Department of Defense to the worldwide network it is today. It then describes some of the key services that have made the internet popular, including accessing information through search engines, communicating through email which was invented in 1971, social networking sites, e-commerce, and video conferencing.

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Internet Services Notes

The document discusses the history and growth of the internet from a small network connecting four computers for the US Department of Defense to the worldwide network it is today. It then describes some of the key services that have made the internet popular, including accessing information through search engines, communicating through email which was invented in 1971, social networking sites, e-commerce, and video conferencing.

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 The Internet is a worldwide network of computers.


 The use of the Internet has grown tremendously over the past
few years and it has become an important part of our everyday
life.
 From being a small network set up by the US Department of
Defence to connect four computers at different sites, the
Internet has come a long way.
 The reason for the ever growing use of the Internet is the
various services that it offers.
 Let us learn about the various services that make the Internet
so popular.
ACCESSING INFORMATION ON THE
INTERNET
 One of the important advantages of the Internet is that it allows
you to easily access information from anywhere and anytime.
 There is a huge amount of information available on the Internet
on a wide range of topics such as research papers, news,
books, products, technical support, job vacancies and health
care.
 This information is stored in the form of text, pictures and
videos on thousands of web servers.
 The search engines on the Internet help us to search and find
information on any subject that you need.
 Let us learn more about the search engines.
1. Use the tabs
2. Use quotes
3. Use a hyphen to exclude words
4. Use a colon to search specific sites
5. Find a page that links to another page
6. Use the asterisk wildcard
7. Find sites that are similar to other sites
8. Use Google search to do math
9. Search for multiple words at once
10. Search a range of numbers
 There are some search engines and online phone or email
directories that allow you to search for people over the
Internet.

Some of these websites are


www.search.bigfoot.com
And
www.whowere.com
Ray Tomlinson

Tomlinson in 2004

Born Raymond Samuel Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson April 23, 1941


Amsterdam, New York, U.S.
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March
5, 2016) was a pioneering[1][2][3][4] American computer
programmer who implemented the first email program on Died March 5, 2016 (aged 74)
Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.
the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in
1971; he is internationally known and credited as the Nationality American
inventor of email.[5][6][7][8] It was the first system able to
send mail between users on different hosts connected to Alma mater Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute Massachusetts Institute of
ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others Technology
who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used
the @ sign to separate the user name from the name of Occupation Computer programmer, inventor,
their machine, a scheme which has been used in email electrical engineer
addresses ever since.[9] The Internet Hall of Fame in its
account of his work commented "Tomlinson's email Known for Invented the first email system
program brought about a complete revolution, Spouse(s) Ann Tomlinson (?-2016)
fundamentally changing the way people
10 reasons why we encourage Email for business over
Whatsapp
•Archival/Retrieval/Search issues:

•Colours on WhatsApp can be misleading:

•Loss of picture quality:

•Better to keep business & personal apart:

•Multiple threads not easy to track:


•
•Phone memory problem:

•Device gone, access gone:


•Cannot CC: .

•Cannot Print from Whatsapp:


Real time textual
communication between two
users through computers is
called chat
Eg:- Instant Messengers
yahoo Messenger, WhatsApp
Internet
Search Engines
Attachments
Yahoo Messenger, Google Hangout
Spam
Usage of Video conferencing

Which allow people at two or more locations to communicate and interact with one
another via audio video transmission.
Social Networking
E commerce
Digi Locker MyGov.in

Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication


Blogger
search engine
Emoticons
e-commerce
Social networking sites

blog
dropbox

web feed

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