Saturday, November 20, 2010

Facilities and Terms used in the Internet

WEB, hypertext facilities to display the data in the form of text, images, sound, animation, and multimedia data others, that among these data relate to each other. For ease of reading data and information you can use a web browser like Internet Explorer or Netscape.

E-MAIL (Electronic Mail), with this facility, you can send and receive electronic mail from
other computer users who connect on the internet, and can include the files as attachments.


Newsgroups, this facility is used to distribute articles, news, comments, letters, offers or files to other Internet users joined with a group discussion on particular topics. With this facility you can also conduct discussions, seminars or conferences by electronic means without being tied to time, space and place.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol), this facility is used to connect to a specific computer server and if necessary copy (download) the files you need from that server and store it on your computer.

Of  Terms Frequently Used in the world of the Internet:
There are several terms frequently used when you work in the Internet, such as:
WWW (World Wide Web), is a collection of web servers around the world who work to provide data and information to be shared. Various information can be found on the WWW, such as information on political, economic, social, culture, literature, history, technology, education and so forth. We can suppose that the WWW is a big library, which provide the required information.
Web Site, is a repository of data and information with certain by topic.
Likened this Web site is a book that contains a particular topic.

Web Pages, is a special page from certain Web sites. Likened this Web page is a special page book from a particular Web site.

Homepage
, is a cover page containing the table of contents or menu of a Web site.

Browser, an application program that is used to facilitate you to navigate the various data and information on the WWW.

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