Basics of Internet
❖The World Wide Web (WWW) is an internet based service, which uses common set of rules known as Protocols, to distribute documents across the Internet in a standard way.
❖The Internet is a massive network of networks. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet.
❖Search engines are the programs which are needed to extract the information from the internet. A search engine works in the following order: Web crawling, Indexing, Searching.
❖ A web server commonly known as HTTP server or application server is a program that serves content using the HTTP protocol.
❖ A Web page can contain an article, or a single paragraph, photographs, and it is usually a combination of text and graphics.
❖ A browser is a software that lets you view web pages, graphics and the online content.
❖The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol, uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Transport Control Protocol (TCP) for managing the security of a message transmission on the Internet. ❖A blog is a web site like any other, but it is intended to offer personal opinions of people on their hobbies, interests, commentaries, photo blogs, etc.
❖URL’s, or ‘uniform resource locators’, are the web browser addresses of internet pages and f iles. It is the way to locate a file or document on the Internet. There are two types of URL: Absolute and Relative. ❖A protocol is a set of rules that governs the communication between computers on a network.
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