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Basic Networking and

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Internet concepts
What is network?
• a group or system of interconnected people or things
• an arrangement of intersecting horizontal and
vertical lines.

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What is network?
• A large system consisting of many similar parts that
are connected together to allow movement or
communication between or along the parts, or
between the parts and a control center
• a television network
• a road/rail network
• etc
Computer network
• two or more computers that are
connected with one another for the
purpose of communicating data
electronically.
• Computer networking refers to connected computing devices (such as
laptops, desktops, servers, smartphones, and tablets) and IoT devices
(such as cameras, door locks, doorbells, refrigerators, audio/visual
systems, thermostats, and various sensors) that communicate with one
another.
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Type Network

LAN
Local area Network

WAN
Wide area network
Internet
• It is the largest network in the world that connects
hundreds of thousands of individual networks all over the
world.
• The popular term for the Internet is the “information
highway”.
• Rather than moving through geographical space, it moves
your ideas and information through cyberspace – the
space of electronic movement of ideas and information.
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Internet
• No one owns it
• It has no formal management organization.
• To access the Internet, an existing network need to
pay a small registration fee and agree to certain
standards based on the TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol) .

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The uses of the Internet

Send (upload) Participate


Send e-mail or receive in Surfing
messages. (down load) discussion the web.
files between groups,
computers. such as
mailing lists
and
newsgroups
.
What is WWW (World wide Web)?
• Collection of electronic documents also called WEB.
• A method for incorporating notes, figures, into online
documents.
• It can contain text, audio, video and graphics etc.
• Website is a collection of web pages
What is WWW (World wide Web)?
• The Web (World Wide Web) consists of information
organized into Web pages containing text and graphic
images.
• It contains hypertext links, or highlighted keywords
and images that lead to related information.
• A collection of linked Web pages that has a common
theme or focus is called a Website.
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What is Web Browser?
• Application software
• Enables you to access the web or internet by viewing
web pages

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Search Engines
• A search engine is a software system
that is designed to carry out web
searches.
• They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for
particular information specified in a textual web search
query.
• Search engines allow users to search the internet for
content using keywords. 12
How to access the Internet?
• Students and employees can access through the
organization’s local area networks (LAN) or through
their own personal computers.
• Another way to access the Internet is through
Internet Service Provider (ISP).

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Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• A commercial organization with permanent
connection to the Internet that sells temporary
connections to subscribers.
• Examples: ethio telecom

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How to access the Web?
• Once you have your Internet connection, then you need
special software called a browser to access the Web.
• Web browsers are used to connect you to remote
computers, open and transfer files, display text and
images.
• Web browsers are specialized programs.
• Examples of Web browser: Chrome, Netscape Navigator
(Navigator) and Internet Explorer. 15
Client/Server Structure of the Web
• Web is a collection of files that reside on computers,
called Web servers, that are located all over the world
and are connected to each other through the Internet.
• When you use your Internet connection to become part of
the Web, your computer becomes a Web client in a
worldwide client/server network.
• A Web browser is the software that you run on your
computer to make it work as a web client.
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How to find information on the Web?
• A number of search tools have been developed and available to you
on certain Web sites that provide search services to help you find
information.
• Examples:
 Yahoo  www.yahoo.com
 Excite  www.excite.com
 Lycos  www.lycos.com
 AltaVista  www/alta-vista.com
 MSN WebSearch  www.search.msn.com 17
How to find information on the Web?
• You can find information by two basic means.
• Search by Topic and Search by keywords.
• Some search services offer both methods, others only one.
• Yahoo offers both.
 Search by Topic
You can navigate through topic lists
 Search by keywords
You can navigate by entering a keyword or phase into a search
text box. 18
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