INTERNET TERMS

INTERNET TERMS

1. E –mail2. Newsgroups3. Internet Relay Chat4. TelNet5. File Transfer Protocol6. Upload vs. Download7. World Wide Web8. Web Browser9. HTTP or HTTPS10. HyperText Markup Language

TERMS CONT’D

11. XHTML12. Web Page13. Web Site14. Blogging15. Web Server

E - MAIL

E – mail is the shortened form of Electronic mail.

E- mails are messages which can be sent from one computer to another anywhere in the world.

They are sent by having an e – mail address and knowing the e – mail address of the recipient of the e – mail.

They don’t have to be formal or structured like letters.

They are transmitted immediately as the “send” button is selected as opposed to normal mailing services that take days to get mail from one person to another.

Pictures, videos and sound files can be attached to e – mail messages.

E- mails may carry viruses.Many people send spam (unwanted) mails

to others.

QUICK FACTS ABOUT E- MAILS

More than 294 billion e – mails are sent and received daily.

90% of the trillions of e – mails sent are spam mails or viruses.

3.5 million e- mails are sent per second.

NEWSGROUPS

A newsgroup is an online discussion where users with common interests ; anywhere in the world, share their views and opinions on particular topics/ issues.

In newsgroups, questions can be asked as well as recommendations made.

URLs for newsgroups begin with news and is followed by the name of the newsgroups.

An example of a newsgroup is: - news. Admin.net – abuse.emailNewsgroups are often used for marketing

of small businesses.Unfortunately, just like e-mail, you can

receive junk mail in newsgroups because there are many newsgroups that are unmoderated. Do you know what that means?

INTERNET RELAY CHAT

Commonly referred to as IRC.Used for communication whether in

groups or individually.It is simply “text messaging” over the

Internet. They handle the exchange of comments

between two or more Internet users at any one time.

Can you guess the most common IRC service ?????

*Drum Roll*If you said, MSN messenger then you are

absolutely RIGHT :D!

UPLOAD VS. DOWNLOAD

The term “upload” means to transmit data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client.

While the term “download” refers to the process of retrieving data from a remote system to a local system.

We upload pictures to Facebook and we download notes sent to us by our teachers on Edmodo.

HTTP vs HTTPS

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It's the first element you see in any URL and you can think of it as the language used to deliver information over the web. Most web browsers (including Internet Explorer) use an encrypted protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to access secure webpages. These pages use the prefix HTTPS. The "s" stands for secure.

WEB SERVER

A Web server is a computer system that hosts websites.

The primary function of a web server is to deliver web pages on the request to clients using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This means delivery of HTML documents and any additional content that may be included by a document, such as images, style sheets and scripts.

WEB BROWSER

Browser, short for web browser, is a software application used to enable computers users to locate and access web pages.

Browsers translates the HTML code that allows us to see images, text videos and listen to audios on websites, along with hyperlinks that let us travel to different web pages. 

WHAT IS A WEBSITE?

A website is a collection of web pages (documents that are accessed through the Internet).

A website can consist of one page, or of tens of thousands of pages, depending on what the site owner is trying to accomplish.

Examples of websites: http://www.ehow.com, http://www.

WHAT IS A WEBPAGE?

A web page is what you see on the screen when you type in a web address, click on a link, or put a query in a search engine.

A web page can contain any type of information, and can include text, colour, graphics, animation and sound.

BLOGGING

A web log, often shortened to "blog," is a web page that contains dated posts, by one or multiple users, often pertaining to a particular topic.

"Blogging" is the act of writing in a blog. You can start a blog on any topic, including

yourself. Most blogs are a mix of commentary, personal notes and links to other websites. You can write in-depth essays on serious subjects, or you can use blogging as a form of journal writing, posting thoughts on the movie you saw last night.

HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE

Shortened form – HTMLHTML is the "language" that web pages

are written in.Hyper is the opposite of linear. Old-

fashioned computer programs were necessarily linear - that is, they had a specific order. But with a "hyper" language such as HTML, the user can go anywhere on the web page at any time.

Text is just what you're looking at now - English characters used to make up ordinary words.

Mark-up is what is done to the text to change its appearance. For instance, "marking up" your text with <b> before it and </b> after it will put that text in bold.

XHTML

Means Extensible Hypertext Markup Language.

Uses a different syntax from HTML.Is stricter than HTML.Was designed to make HTML more

extensible.

TELNET

Telnet is a remote login service provided by dedicated computer networks on the Internet.

Where modems are limited, in the majority, by the quality of telephone lines and a single connection, telnet provides a connection that's error-free and nearly always faster than the latest conventional modems.

FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL

Shortened form – FTPFTP allows you to transfer files between

two computers on the Internet. Some users use FTP to download updates

to popular software as well as it can also be used to upload files to websites.