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Intro to MIS – MGS351 The World Wide Web and the Internet

Intro to MIS – MGS351 The World Wide Web and the Internet. Extended Learning Module B. Chapter Overview. What is the Internet? Overview of various Internet Services How does the Internet work? The World Wide Web Security and the Internet Intranets and Extranets

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Intro to MIS – MGS351 The World Wide Web and the Internet

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  1. Intro to MIS – MGS351The World Wide Weband the Internet Extended Learning Module B

  2. Chapter Overview • What is the Internet? • Overview of various Internet Services • How does the Internet work? • The World Wide Web • Security and the Internet • Intranets and Extranets • Future directions of the Internet

  3. “The Internet is one of the rare, if not unique, instances where ‘hype’ is accompanied by understatement, not overstatement…I don’t think we know what has hit us.” Nicholas Negroponte, Director, MIT Media Lab

  4. What is the Internet? • Two or more networks joined together (i) • Worldwide group of connected networks that allow public access to information and services (I) • No central governing body • Estimated 2.4 billion users • Roughly 34.3% of the world population

  5. Internet Statistics - Hosts

  6. Brief History of the Internet • 1969 - Network of four University computers (ARPANET) • 1984 - Domain Name System introduced • 1986 - NSFnet connects to ARPANET • 1988 - Internet WORM affects 6,000 hosts • 1991 - Gopher and WWW released • 1993 - Mosaic is released • Various organizations help define standards

  7. Internet Services • World Wide Web • E-mail • FTP (Archie) • Telnet • Chat Rooms (IRC) • Usenet • Gopher (Veronica and Jughead)

  8. How does the Internet work? • Clients • Web Servers (www.netcraft.com) • Packets • Routers • Packet Switching (TCP / IP) • Backbone • Network Access Point (NAP)

  9. Internet Addresses • IP (Internet protocol) address • 128.205.4.175 • Domain name • www.buffalo.edu • Domain Name System (DNS) • Domain name servers nslookup <hostname> in Windows host <hostname> in UNIX

  10. com coop edu gov mil net org int info biz museum name pro Top Level Domains

  11. World Wide Web • CERN – Where the Web was born • public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/Web-en.html • Tim Berners-Lee • Hyperlinked documents • Defined URL’s, HTML, and HTTP • Designed for collaborative research

  12. Anatomy of a Web Page • Uniform Resource Locator (URL) • Hypertext transfer protocol (http://) • Hypertext markup language (HTML) • Hyperlinks • Hypertext & Hypermedia

  13. Uniform Resource Locator

  14. Web Page Do’s and Don’ts • Keep your pages small • Limit graphics on pages to keep them “light” • Reuse graphics and avoid animations • Balance images and text • Test...test...test… • Know your customer

  15. Security on the Internet • CERT - www.cert.org • 1988 1 advisory and 6 incidents • 2003 28 advisories, 137,529 incidents and 3,784 vulnerabilities • Hackers, Phishing, Denial of Service, Worms, Viruses, Social Engineering, Fraud, Identity Theft

  16. Security Solutions • Authentication / Authorization • Firewalls • Intrusion Detection Systems • Data Encryption • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) • Security Awareness Training & Education

  17. Intranets (B2E) “Private corporate network that uses Internet technology and is designed to meet the needs of employees”

  18. Extranets (B2B) “Private corporate network designed to meet the needs of external parties such as suppliers, customers, and stockholders”

  19. The Internet and Business • 24 / 7 access • Global presence • Lower marketing costs • Two-way communications • Lower product display and storage costs • Lower salesperson costs • Electronic commerce opportunities

  20. Future Directions •  Electronic commerce •  Bandwidth •  Social media applications • VOIP • IPv6 - 340 undecillion versus 4.3 billion 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 • Ubiquitous Access (wireless/mobile)

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