Internet+and+WWW


 * The Internet and the World Wide Web **

** At the end of this lesson each student should be able to answer the following questions. **

What are the origins of the Internet? **-The internet was started by ARPA (a government division) in order to help scientist share info with the government and vice versa** How does the Internet work? What is necessary for web sites to work? What is **HTML**? - **formatting process used with the world wide web** What are **protocols**? - **standard format for transferring data between 2 devices** How do I access the Internet? - What are the ways you can connect to the Internet? What is a browser? - **software program that provides GUI for the internet** What are the main features of a browser? How do I copy and paste images, text and web pages? How do I download and install a program? What are the dangers of this?
 * -edit> select all> edit> copy/paste **

** At the end of this lesson each student should be familiar with the following vocabulary **

**Address Bar-** contains URL or address of active webpage **Browser-** software program: GUI for interned **Domain Name-** identifies a site on the internet **Favorites**-websites you like or return to often **Home Page-** first page displayed when you start your webpage **Host Computer**- computer you access remotely from your computes **HTML Hypertext Markup Language**- formatting process for WWW **HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol**- language used to communicate on the intermet **ISP Internet Service Provider-** small/local internet connection **Online Service Provider**- large/international companies (such as AOL or MSN)
 * Bookmark **
 * Disk Cache **
 * Host Node **
 * TCP/IP Transmission Control and Internet Protocol- ** aggreed upon international standard for transferring/transmitting data on the internet
 * URL Uniform Resource Locator- ** web page address
 * Web Page- ** text page coded with HTML mark up tags and displayed within a browser
 * WWW World Wide Web- ** (1990, Dr. Tim Berners-Lee) application that makes use for the internet