Computer Term-1 Assignment

Connect with the world using internet and its applications

Introducing To Internet
The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks from around the world that provides a wealth of
information on nearly any topic you can imagine. The World Wide Web (WWW), often simply called the Web, is a
subsystem of the internet.

The internet itself is just cables, wires and specialized computers, but its value lies in the vast amounts of information it
contains. At the physical level, the structure of the Internet is one that is often described as the network of networks.

Applications of Internet
The Internet forms a large part of the ICT that is there. Without the Internet, computers would only work without any
possible collaboration. We have already talked about various possible uses of the Internet in an earlier topic. However,
there are lots of other uses of the Internet that are specialized and most people will not need such help.

Some of the applications of Internet are:

1. Internet is a place where businesses house themselves. Most companions these days have online presence and
going online opens up the company for 24 7 uses and reach from any geographical place.
2. Almost any information can be found on the internet. So, it helps students, researchers, housewives, class
teachers, professors in their daily life.
3. You can buy and sell goods over the Internet. Flipkart, Amazon, OLX are some such sites where buying and
selling of goods is actually possible.
4. Internet allows you to make friends. It of course comes with the warning that someone might exploit or use you,
but many people meet up online and marry.
5. Internet in office spaces allows you to have meetings and conferences over the internet.
6. Internet can entertain you. You can play any video on the Internet using sites like YouTube.

Internet Browser
Internet browser or Internet Application software or browser is an important software for connection to the internet. The
interface of most browsers is simple enough. You type in the address of the web page (known also as URL) into the
address bar. Pressing the Go button or just Enter from keyboard sets the backend of the browser app in motion. In a good
speed internet, the browser page is loaded onto the browser soon. In slow connections, loading of the Internet page might
take more than a few seconds.

There are different brands of browsers. Some of the browsers are Internet Explorer, Edge, Opera, Google Chrome (by
Google), Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator.

These are the common properties of the browsers.

1. History feature to access what web pages have been visited in the past.
2. Bookmark pages to access some specific pages later easily.
3. Stop, Refresh buttons to stop loading and revisit the webpage.
4. Settings feature to tweak around with various properties of browser.
5. Check the code of the web page in HTML. (This is achieved by right clicking on the web page and choosing the
correct option.)

Websites and Web pages

A website is the parent web page or the name given to the collective pages by which the collection is known. Examples of
websites would be google.com, amazon.com, flipkart.com, msn.com, etc.

A web page is a page on the internet which contains the information in the form of text, graphics, and sounds. A web
page can be accessed through a web browser on the Internet. These pages form the building blocks of a website.

Email Applications
Email stands for electronic mail. Earlier, before the computer age, letters used to be sent to each other and people would
wait for days to have letters handed over to them. Now, it is possible to drop email right into a person’s inbox available
online or on the computer. Some email applications are Microsoft Outlook, Eudora and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Email Accounts
If the email inbox is part of an online web page, the case is of an email account. These are usually protected by using a
login ID and password. These passwords are supposed to be kept a secret and only to yourself. Some companies providing
email accounts for users for users are: Microsoft, Google, Hotmail and Yahoo.

The place where the mail keeps itself is known as the inbox. You can receive emails and also send emails. To send emails
you need the email ID of the entity you are sending the email to. After usage of the email account, you are supposed to log
out (or sign out) of the email account.
Sending and receiving email
The inbox of the email account is where you receive the email. You can send email from the account. The steps to send
email are:

1. Open a new message

2. Fill the details of the email like receiver ID, other recipients, contents, files to attach with, etc.
3. Click on send or an appropriate button.

If you add email IDs within Cc, every normal and Cc recipient can know each other’s Ids. If you add email IDs within
Bcc, the IDs within the Bcc will be withheld.

Introduction to Social Media

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career
interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

1. Blog: These are short form of web logs. These are web pages where a person expresses his views, opinions,
career advice or various contents for sharing with other people. In response and a chain of comments and replies
in usually formed.

2. Twitter: Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interacts with
messages known as “tweets”. Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this
limit was doubled for all languages except Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in
July of that year. Twitter has become internationally identifiable by its signature bird logo, or the twitter bird.

3. FaceBook: This is a social networking website developed by Harvard Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin,
Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Andrew McCollum. It is a social networking website. People can add each
other as “friends”, “unfriend”, form groups, post updates, comment on updater posts, reply to comments, use
applications to share interesting pictures and videos, etc.

4. YouTube: YouTube is an online video sharing service which has now been acquired by Google. You can
search for videos on YouTube, and virtually every important video or song video can be found on YouTube. You
can create user ID and password to upload vides onto the website. These videos can be seen by others.
You need to subscribe to some channels to have access to such videos. YouTube allows users to upload, view,
rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. IT offers a wide variety of
 user-generated and corporate media videos. YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program
which targets ads according to site content and audience.

5. Whatsapp: Whatsapp messenger is a freeware and cross-platform messaging service. The application allows
the sending of text messages and voice calls, as well as video call, images and other media, documents and user
location. The application runs from a mobile device though it is also accessible from desktop computers: the
service uses standard cellular mobile numbers.
The app was created by Whatsapp Inc., based in Mountain View, California, which has acquired by Facebook in
February 2014 for approximately US $ 19.3 billion.