Computer Science

Networks
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 Internet and its Uses

www

Protocols

Learn ISP

Domain Name

Uniform Resource Locator

Search Engines
 Internet
• It is the largest network in the world that connects hundreds of
thousands of individual networks all over the world.

• The popular term for the Internet is the “information highway”.

• It is also known as ‘Network of Networks’

• Submarine Cable Map

 Uses of the Internet
• Send e-mail messages.

• Send (upload) or receive (download) files between computers.

• Participate in discussion groups, such as mailing lists and newsgroups.

• Surfing the web.

 What is Web?
• The Web (World Wide Web) consists of information organized into
Web pages containing text and graphic images.

• It contains hypertext links, or highlighted keywords and images that

lead to related information.
 Protocols
• Protocol, in computer science, a set of rules or procedures for
transmitting data between electronic devices, such as
computers.

• Examples-
1. http (hyper text transfer protocol)
2. https
3. ftp (file transfer protocol)
 Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• An Internet service provider is an organization that provides several
services for accessing, using, or participating on the Internet.
• Examples: - Airtel, Vi, Jio, etc.
 Domain Name
• A domain name is a unique name associated with a specific IP
address by a program that runs on an Internet host computer.

URL
• URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is nothing
more than the address of a given unique resource on the Web.
Structure of a Uniform Resource Locators

protocol pathname

http://www.vidyagyan.in/about_us/index.htm

filename
Domain name

http => Hypertext Transfer Protocol

 Search Engines
• A search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web
searches, which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic
way for information.

• Examples:
Yahoo  www.yahoo.com
Google  www.google.co.in
Revise

Internet and its www Protocols ISP

Uses

Domain Name Uniform Search Engines

Resource
Locator