UNDERSTANDING

THE INTERNET
 WHAT IS INTERNET?
 Internetor simply the NET is a
network of computers linked together
around the world

 Information can travel back and forth

to any computers that are connected to
the internet.

 Information Superhighway
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
 1960’s-
the US Defense Department made
an experiment that led them to the
development of connected computer
networks.

 1969-
created of ARPANET (Advanced
Research Projects Agency Network)

 October 24, 1995- the federal networking

council passed a resolution defining the
term INTERNET.
INTERNET SERVICES
 Email- worldwide system of sending and
receiving mail in electronic format.

 InternetRelay Chat (IRC)- chat system on

the internet using aliases or screen name
to send type messages
 Small IRC- ex. OperaNet
 Medium IRC (30,000 users)- ex. Freenode,
Dalnet
 Big IRC (100,000 users)- ex. EfNet, UnderNet
INTERNET SERVICES
 Telnet- permits your computer to log on to
another computer and access it as if you
were actually there. (Telecommunication
Network)
 Gopher- designed for distributing,
searching, and retrieving documents in
internet
 WWW- World Wide Web, it incorporates
all the services listed above.
 Another way to describe internet
IRC
TELNET
In order for the Web to be
accessible to everyone, certain
agreed-upon standards must be
followed in the creation and
delivery of its content.
 W3C
 World Wide Web Consortium- is an
international organization committed to
improving the Web.
 It was established in 1994 by the creator of
WWW.
 Its mission is to lead the World Wide Web to
its full potential by developing standards,
protocols and guidelines that ensure its long-
term growth.
 PROTOCOL OF THE WEB
Internet Protocols- are
set of rules that allow for
inter-machine
communication on the
internet.

 HTTP- standard means

of transmitting files
written in HTML over
networks. It is the main
protocol of the World
Wide Web.
PROTOCOL OF THE WEB
 SMTP- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, standard
format for sending email messages and attached
files to one or more electronic mailboxes.
PROTOCOL OF THE WEB
 FTP- stands for File Transfer Protocol, which
allows for the transfer of files between an FTP
server and a computer.
PROTOCOL OF THE WEB
 VoIP- stands for Voice over Internet Protocol,
that converts your voice into a digital signal,
allowing you to make a call directly from a
computer, a VoIP phone, or other data-driven
devices.
 Simply put, it’s phone service delivered over the
internet.
EXAMPLES OF VOIP
WEB BROWSER
 It is a software which allows you to access and
display the information or HTML files that are on the
www.
WHAT IS URL?
 Uniform Resource Locator- a formatted
text string used by a web browsers, email
clients and other software to locate a
network resource on the internet.

 Network Resources are files that can be

ordinary web pages, other text documents,
graphics or even programs.
TAKE NOTE:
 Some web browsers have their own
search engine such as Internet
explorer has Bing.com; Google
Chrome has Google Search.