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Twin Oaks’ Internet Resources By Donald W. Larson February 22, 2006 Who Is Don Larson? Current Club Webmaster Almost 26 years of computer technology experience in: Programming Software Analysis and Design Database Design Project Management Click mouse to continue Don’s Home Computer
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Twin Oaks’ Internet Resources By Donald W. Larson February 22, 2006
Who Is Don Larson? • Current Club Webmaster • Almost 26 years of computer technology experience in: • Programming • Software Analysis and Design • Database Design • Project Management Click mouse to continue
Why Is This Topic Important? • The club’s Internet Resources are owned by every member • Know what you are paying for through your dues • Someday you may be an officer of this club • You might wish to learn more about Internet technology Click mouse to continue
First, A Few Definitions • We need to understand the definitions of a few technical terms before we explore the basic understanding of the club’s computer technology resources: • Protocol • Internet • Server • ISP Click mouse to continue
What Is Protocol? • A set of syntactic and semantic rules for exchanging information that includes: • syntax of the information • the ordering of words • semantics of the information • the meaning of a word or term • rules for the exchange of information • rules are prescribed patterns of behavior applied to the handling of data, such as rules of association, or rules of classification Click mouse to continue
What Is The Internet? • A network of computer networks which operates world-wide using a common set of communications protocols • The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP) and many other protocols Click mouse to continue
What Is A Server? • In computing, a server is: A computer software application that carries out some task (i.e. provides a service) on behalf of yet another piece of software called a client • There are many kinds of servers • Some of those types of servers will be described in the remaining parts of this presentation Click mouse to continue
Domain Name Server • A Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Internet’s way to map any valid and registered unique domain name to its actual Internet Protocol (IP) address: • cnn.com becomes 64.236.16.52 • IP addresses from those four octets, define the actual locations of places on the internet • Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) maintains registrations Click mouse to continue
Domain Name Server Illustration • The ICANN Domain Name Server is the master of all other DNS • It is the gatekeeper of all valid and registered domain names Click mouse to continue
Domain Name Components • There are several hundred top-level domains: • .com • .org • .net • .gov • .mil • Other official two or three letter designations Click mouse to continue
What Is An ISP? • The Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the vendor who purchases high-capacity communication lines and then sells smaller portions of that capacity to end-users such as you and I, via these types of connectivity: • Dial-up • DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) • Cable Click mouse to continue
Twin Oaks Internet Presence • We own a location on the Internet identified by our second-level Domain Name • twinoakstoastmasters.org • We refer to our domain name for simplicity’s sake instead of its Internet Protocol (IP) address of 66.235.221.12 • The first part of a second-level domain, such as “www” indicates the type of host (server) within a domain Click mouse to continue
File Server • A File Server is a specialized computer program that allows authorizedusers to place, use, and retrieve files within their dedicated folder located on the file server • We rent storage space on a file server for the club’s usage, such as: • Images • Web pages • PDF’s • Club schedule for members Click mouse to continue
File Server Illustration • We are but one of many customers renting disk space on our server • Our disk space is organized by folders holding different types of content Click mouse to continue
Email/List Server • For club-wide email messages, we use an Email/List Server: • The email/list server is a specialized computer program that maintains a list of email addresses and associates that list to a particular email address • Any message and its content sent to that particular email address is redistributed to all valid email addresses maintained in that associated list • Note: Our list server club-wide email address is not publicized outside of our membership to avoid nuisance messages (spamming) being sent to our members Click mouse to continue
Email/List Server Illustration • There could other lists constructed as needed by the club • The same procedure is used for each list regardless of the number of recipient email addresses Click mouse to continue
Web Server • Our club maintains a Web Site on the Internet at: • www.twinoakstoastmasters.org • The President of the club assigns Webmasters as needed to keep the web and email/list server information up-to-date and useful • The web site accesses the files placed on the Club’s File Server within the folder structure or via links to external references on the Internet; such as content found on other web sites Click mouse to continue
Web Browser • We members use a software program called a Web Browser to connect to our web site and navigate (surf) to the web pages there to view or download that content • Some of the more popular web browsers are: • Firefox • Safari • Internet Explorer Click mouse to continue
Web Server Illustration Click mouse to continue
Partial Club Web Site Content • Mission and Vision Statements • Club Meeting Schedule And Assignments • Individual Member Progress • Standard Meeting Agenda • Workflow Of A Meeting Document • Member PowerPoint Presentations • Current and Previous Club Newsletters Click mouse to continue
Additional Information Links • ICANN Domain Name Management • How Stuff Works - More Internet Explanations • Twin Oaks Toastmasters Web Site Click mouse to continue
I’m Done! • Don Larson, CTM & CL • Email Don • Don’s Web Site Time Out Of Mind • Former President and Vice President Of Education Click mouse to continue