Topic 5: Internet Applications and World Wide Web.

In this topic I learnt many things about Internet Applications and World Wide Web. Internet is the most famous media that mostly used by the users and people in information seeking. So, I think that studying something about Internet Applications and World Wide Web won’t be waste think but a very useful thing that we can use in present and in future.

First of all what I studied in this topic is “what is internet?”. Internet is a largest network that uses the standard internet protocol to serve billions of users and connects people and organisations all over the world. There are so many benefits in using internet. Some of that are we can find information about all the things around the world and around this universe, we can download and upload whatever the photos we need and share photos between computers, we can meet people by chatting and video calling through social networking sites, and we can do online shopping. Like this there are many other benefits also in using internet.

Internet was found or started in 1960 United States Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to study ways to interconnect network in various kinds. The first internets name is “ARPANET”. In 1986 United States National Science forum started a network called NSFNET which is the major component of INTERNET now.  Internet is providing so many services to the users and people through Internet Applications. Such as communication, World Wide Web, Protocol, Chat Room, Instant Messaging, and IR.

In those internet services E-mails are one of main and important applications that is provided by internet applications. We can send and exchange mails to computer to computer by using this E-mail. Not only this, we can save files, print files, and delete mails in this E-mails. These are the main important features of E-mail. We can see so many E-mail applications around the internet. For example Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, and Hotmail.

Then I studied about web. What is web? Web was created by Tim Berners Lee. It contains hypertext links, highlighted keywords, and images relevant to the information. A website is a collection of linked web pages that has common themes. Then I studied about Uniform Resource Locators (URL). Especially web browsers rely on this URL and it helps to identify a web pages exact location. Web browser is getting more help from URL. As URL transfers protocol, it shows the domain name, path name of a folder, and the name of the file. 

Then I learnt about HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). Short for Hypertext Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML, although it is not a strict subset. To access to a web we need an internet connection, internet service provider, and a web browser. Internet service provider is a private organisation or a company which provides temporary internet connections to subscribers. Some Malaysian companies like Maxis, Celcom, and Digi are providing good connections within Malaysia. We can use the browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer to access to a website. Not only this, we can use this web to connect with people around the world. To this purpose we can use chat rooms like Real Chat, Yahoo Message Chat Room, and AOL Chat Room. And also we can use Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) like Skype, Yahoo Voice, Windows Live Call, and Net Meeting. If we want to know about world news, we can use news groups like Google Talk and Google Group. So this web is bringing so many positives and benefits to the users in various forms. It’s really helpful to all the people around the world.