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Dusten Keppner

The document discusses the Internet and how it connects computers globally through wires like phone lines, forming a network similar to roads connecting cities and towns. It describes some common uses of the Internet like email, research, shopping, news, and games. It then defines several Internet-related terms, including the World Wide Web (WWW), browsers as software programs to view web pages, search engines to search the Internet, URLs as unique web page addresses, domains indicating site types, and HTML as the language used to create web pages.

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The Internet
What is the Internet?The Internet is a global web of computers connected to each other by wires, (mostly phone lines). If you look at a map of big cities, smaller towns, and scattered houses, each is connected together with roads, railways, etc.. This is similar to the Internet, except with the Internet, wires connect computers. The Internet is a superhighway.
The internet
Some ways to use the InternetE-mailResearchShoppingNewsGamesEd-line
Do you ever use the Internet?
How often do you use the Internet?
Why do you generally use the Internet?
Internet TermsWWWBrowserSearch EngineURLDomainhtml
WWW The World Wide Web
BrowserSoftware program that allows a person to view WWW documents. Examples of browsers are Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mosaic, Mac web, and Net cruiser.
Let’s Look at some examples of some browsers.
Search EngineA web site that will help you search the Internet for key words, subjects, etc.
Let’s try a search now!
URLUNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR- The unique address of any web page. It tells your computer where the information is stored so it can be viewed.
Now we are going to look at a URL
DomainA way to indicate what type of site you may be viewing. In the U.S. some common domains are .com-commercial, .org- non-profit and research organizations, .gov- government agency, .edu-education. More are constantly being added so theses should only be used as guidelines to help you know what type of site you are on.
What is the Domain for the School Districts web site?
htmlThe Language used to create Web Pages
Let’s view and example of html.

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