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The Internet

Dr. Jim Martinjim.martin@cs.clemson.edu

Clemson’s Emerging Scholars Partnership, Summer 2005

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Basics

Clemson’s Emerging Scholars Partnership, Summer 2005

InternetInternet Access NetworkAccess Network(Internet Service (Internet Service Provider or ISP)Provider or ISP)

SouthsideSouthsideHigh High SchoolSchool

ClemsonClemson

Dialup connection

This is us!!! We connect to Clemson’s network using an Ethernet LAN

www.cs.clemson.edu

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Server Server RoomRoom

www.usatoday.com•Machines communicate over a network•Machines on the network are called hosts•Two types of hosts: clients (us) or servers (www.cs.clemson.edu)•The Internet is a bunch of individual networks that can talk to each other.

•A host connected to the Internet can communicate with any other host also connected on the Internet.

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Internet applications/programs World Wide Web : Most people think of the

Internet as web browsing. This is the most used application.

Web Browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape and Firefox

eMail: Communicate with people FTP and sFTP : File transfer protocol and secure

FTP Music and Video sharing : P2P programs like

Kaza AIM : America Online’s Instant Messanger Video : Microsoft’s Windows Media Player

Clemson’s Emerging Scholars Partnership, Summer 2005

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Exercises (hint: use the best search engine in the world: www.google.com)

Use the Internet to answer the following questions: What is the weather forecast for this

evening in Washington DC ?

Who was the 5’th president of the United States?

Clemson’s Emerging Scholars Partnership, Summer 2005

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Homework

Please read this information that is on this website:

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/kids/lessons/index.html

Read the ‘Basics’ Sections A through D