What I use the internet used for?
- Downloading music, mainly youtube
- Social networking (Twitter,tumblr and facebook)
- Online shopping (HMV, river island, sainsburys etc)
- Catchup t.v/ films
About the internet
- It started in the 1960s, in the american defence transferred information through many computers
- The advanced research project agency (ARPA) created a network
- Gateways - all computer networks are connected
- Protocols - exist for different types of internet traffic
- TCP/IP - transmission control protocol/ internet protocol
- internet addresses - each computer has a unique name eg 231.231.6.7
- domain addresses - we prefer names then numbers so instead of 231.231.6.7 it becomes cinemac.co.uk
- ISP - internet service provider - provides the internet
- Server - is another computer possibly without a screen, with many other banks of computers in room somewhere,
- Web host - is a company that store your websites on their server
- URL- uniform resource locater
- HTML- hypertext markup language is language designed to display text and allow hyperlink to be embedded within it
- browser - software to allows you to access the WWW.
- Bandwidth - the capacity of a line to carry data.
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