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Internet Overview

Internet Overview. Fall 2007. What is the Internet?. A network of networks, bringing together people, information, hardware and software around the World. You can connect to the Internet:

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Internet Overview

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  1. Internet Overview Fall 2007

  2. What is the Internet? • A network of networks, bringing together people, information, hardware and software around the World. • You can connect to the Internet: • dialing out to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) using SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol) or PPP (Point to Point Protocol). • directly through Cable Modem, DSL (Digital Subscriber Line), dedicated ISP connection, using TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol). • dialing out to a computer connected to the Internet using a common communications package and using Internet packages in the remote computer.

  3. How does it work? • Through a Domain System Structure • for example an Internet address (URL) like home.ubalt.edu tell us that this address: (a) belongs to the .edu -- education -- domain, (b) is part of a network called ubalt (of course the name of the UB network), and (c) that the machine (computer) name is home. • there are many different (top) domains like gov, mil, com, net, etc, with new ones being addedpresently. • each computer is assigned an IP number, like 198.202.0.35 -- the home.ubalt.edu IP number. • a computer with a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) has a fixed IP number and name registered in the Internet.

  4. What can you do in the Internet? • Communications • Information search • File manipulation • Remote control of other computers • Cruise the Net through hypermedia • Electronic Commerce

  5. Communications • Send/receive e-mail: the main use of the Internet. • Send/receive Chat roomand Instant Messages: same time message exchange. • Participate in Web Forums: discussions, help and information. • Participate in Online Communities: Facebook, MySpace, YouTube. • Participate in Audio and/orVideo Conferencing: same time voice and/or video communications. • Participate in mailing and discussion lists and newsgroups: you can get help and receive news.

  6. Information search • Web search engines like Google, Ask.com, etc. • Web site directories (portals) like Yahoo, MSN, etc. • former tools like Gopher, Veronica and WAIS are rarely used today.

  7. File transfer and remote control • Web browser: the number one way to download (save a file to a local machine). At UB you can also upload files to your Web space. • FTP: the File Transfer Protocol is the most used mean to upload files in the Net, and a close second to Web browser in file downloads. • Telnet/SSH: allows you to login remotely in another computer you have an account and execute command line, non-graphical, commands.

  8. Hypermedia Net surfing • The Internet graphical user interface: the World Wide Web. • Main browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Netscape. • Most commonly used tool, as you know since you are reading this.

  9. Electronic Commerce • Use of the Web graphical interface and technology as a front-end to a business. • traditional businesses with Web storefronts. • new businesses with no or very few brick and mortar storefronts -- the .com companies. • The basis of the new Digital Economy. • A very important use of the Internet, second only to communications and online communities.

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