INTERNET

 The Internet is a worldwide collection of

networks that allows people to communicate and
share information easily

 The software you use to connect your computer

to the Web server is called Web browser.
Common Web browsers are Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc.
Home page- The first page you get when running
a browser.
These browsers use a standard Graphical User
Interface design
 Website is a Location of a company or
organization on the internet
 INTERNET cont…
 Web Address: An Internet address of a company or
organization
◦ It refers the address of a particular website
 Web address(sometimes called a URL-Uniform
Resource Locator), example
http://www.cbe.ac.tz can
be composed of four parts:
 http:// - A protocol name (A protocol is a set of rules
and standards that govern communications on the
internet)
 www.- The Location of the site (world wide web)
 cbe – The name of the organization that maintains/owns
the site
 ac.tz – Indicates the kind of organization it is and a
country where it is located (Domain)
Internet Search Engine
• The search engines are used for finding the
information you want on the internet.

• These are special sites on the web designed to

help people find information stored on other
sites.

• Popular global Search engines include:-

 www.yahoo.com
 www.google.com
 www.msn.com etc.

• What is the difference between

Downloading and Uploading?
Email
 Is a message distributed by electronic means from one
computer user to one or more recipients via a network.
 E-mail messages can go to only one recipient or to dozens
of recipients at once
 When you send a message, it travels through the network
to an e-mail server
 The e-mail server stores messages until the recipient(s)
request them
 Example of an email address: kimei@cbe.ac.tz
◦ Kimei - username/log in ID
◦ @ - a symbol to identify in which server the email belongs
◦ cbe.ac.tz – name of the email server {includes Email provider
name (organization), Type of Organization and Country}
 QUIZ
• Create your own email address and use it
to communicate with your fellow students