Connecting (a Network) to the Internet
Step 1: Understanding what the Internet is
The Internet is a network of computers, connected throughout the world. The Internet is made up of six main parts, each of which does different things. These parts are:
- Email:
E-mail (electronic mail) is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication. Email uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
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- Telnet:
Telnet is the way you can access someone else's computer, assuming they have given you permission.
- Gopher:
Gopher is an Internet application protocol in which hierarchically-organized file structures are maintained on servers that themselves are part of an overall information structure.
- FTP:
FTP (File Transfer Protocol), a standard protocol, is the simplest way to exchange files between computers on the Internet..
- Usenet:
Usenet is a collection of notes on various subjects that are posted to servers on a worldwide network. Each subject collection of posted notes is known as a newsgroup.
- World Wide Web:
A technical definition of the World Wide Web is: all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
In English: The web is a part of the internet; it is made up of web pages that represent information graphically via a browser.
The Worldwide Web is a system based on:- the Internet
- a standard protocol (HTTP)
- a standard format for describing the structure of documents (HTML) for transmission of hypermedia documents,
- a set of servers that respond to requests from a viewer
- browsers (or clients) for those documents
Ok, so now you understand what the Internet is, but how do you connect to it?
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