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INTERNET

The Internet is a collection of computers, all linked together to share


information worldwide. Or it is a global system of interconnected
computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite
((Transmission Control Protocol/internet protocol (Tep/IP) to
link devices worldwide. It is the largest computer network in the world.
It is a network of networks that consists of private, public,
academic, business, and government networks of local to global
scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and
optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive
range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked
hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web
(WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks for
file sharing.

BROWSER
A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) i s a software application
f o r retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World
W i d e Web. An internet browser or web browser is software installed in a
computer that locates websites on the World Wide Web. It allows people to move
around (browse) the WWW and view pages. An information resource is
identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) that may be a
web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present i n
resources e n a b l e users easily to navigate t h e i r browsers to related
resources. Although browsers are primarily intended to use the World
Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web
servers in private networks or files in file systems.
The most popular web browsers are Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge
(preceded by Internet Explorer), S a f a r i , Opera and Firefox.

SOCIAL M E D I A
Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation
a n d sharing o f information, ideas, career interests and other forms o f
expression via virtual c o m m u n i t i e s and networks. The variety o f stand-
alone and built-in s o c i a l media s e r v i c e s c u r r e n t l y available introduces
challenges of definition; however, there are some common features

CYBERCAFÉ
Cybercafé is a place to use computers to access the Internet, play games,
create documents, and chat with friends using voice and video, as well as
a number of other computer-related tasks. Typically, the computer and
Internet access is provided for an hourly or daily fee.
E-MAIL
E-mail is a system for sending and receiving messages electronically over the
internet. E-mail allows messages to be sent between computers just like the
traditional postal system.

E-MAIL ADDRESS
An email address is a unique address used to identify the email box of its users.
Two or more users cannot have the same email address. An example format of an
email address is [email protected]

FEATURES IN AN EMAIL ADDRESS

An e-mail address consists of the following features:

THE USERNAME: This is the first part of an email address.

THE @ (AT) SIGN: The sign is used to link the username, the website that owns
it.
THE NAME OF THE WEBSITE: This is usually the name of the website that
owns the service like Yahoo, Google, AOL, HiiT Plc, jaiz Bank etc.

THE WEBSITE EXTENSION: The website is registered in a domain with an


extension. The extension is determined by the type of entity that owns the website.
For example, a commercial entity will have a website with a .com extension. These
are shown below:

1) .com or .co (commercial organizations)


2) .edu (educational institutions)
3) .gov (government)
4) .mil (military)
5) .net (network or non-governmental organization)

RESOURCE PROVIDED BY INTERNET


Some of the specific resources which the internet provides include but not
limited to the following:

1. Electronic mail (e-mail): This allows a message to be sent from one


person to another, or to many others via computer. Internet has its own e-
mail standards that have also become the means of interconnecting most of
the world’s email systems.
2. The World Wide Web: This allows the seamless creation and use of
elegant point-and-click hypermedia presentations, linked across the
internet in a way that creates a vast open knowledge repository, through
which users can easily browse.
3. Gropher: This is a system that allows the creation and use of directories of
files held on computers on the internet, and builds links across the internet
in a manner that allows users to browse through the files.
4. File Transfer Protocol (FTP): This is a set of conventions allowing
easy transfer of files between host computers.
5. Usenet: This allows automatic global distribution of news messages
among thousands of user groups, called news groups.
6. Telnet: This is the system that allows a user to “log in” to a
remote computer, and make use of it.

Activities
1. What is internet?
2. Mention and explain 3 resources provided by the internet.

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