Table of Contents: Course Syllabus Course Assignments and Due Dates Tips and Tricks Part One: Understanding The Internet Chapter One: Definitions Chapter Two: How the Internet is Changing the World Part Two: Getting On The Internet Chapter Three: Getting Connected Chapter Four: Surfing the Net Part Three: Communicating Over The Internet Chapter Five: Internet Etiquette (Netiquette) Chapter Six: Electronic Mail Chapter Seven: Listserv Chapter Eight: Usenet Newsgroups Chapter Nine: Communicating in Real Time Chapter Ten: Telnet Part Four: Finding Things On The Internet Chapter Eleven: Searching for Information Chapter Twelve: Commonly Found Internet File Types Chapter Thirteen: Downloading From the Internet Chapter Fourteen: Bibliographic Style for Citing Internet Resources Part Five: Creating Web Pages Chapter Fifteen: Web Page Creation Strategies Chapter Sixteen: Web Page Design Chapter Seventeen: How HTML Works Chapter Eighteen: Creating Your Web Page Resume Chapter Nineteen: Putting Images on Web Pages Chapter Twenty: Using Tables for Advanced Web Page Layout Chapter Twenty-one: Making a Local Web and a Home Page Chapter Twenty-two: Publishing Files on the World Wide Web Part Six: Using Multimedia On The Internet Chapter Twenty-three: How Web Browsers Do Multimedia Chapter Twenty-four: Waveform Audio Recording Part Seven: Planning For The Future Of The Internet Chapter Twenty-five: Societal Issues Chapter Twenty-six: Emerging Technology Chapter Twenty-seven: How to Keep Up Send E-Mail to Instructor Internet Resources Home Page

After completing this chapter, you will be able to: Define the Internet, describe how large it is, and find out how fast it is growing. Know when you are really "on" the Internet. List and define the eight basic Internet services of e-mail, listserv, newsgroups, chat, FTP, telnet, Gopher, and the World Wide Web. Explain what is meant by client-server computing. Understand the Internet naming system of domains and subdomains. Provide a brief history of the Internet, explaining how it grew from its humble origins into the worldwide network that we enjoy today. What is the Internet? The Internet is composed of computers, all makes and models; connections such as phone lines, satellite links, digital datalines; and a common language--TCP/IP allows different computers to talk, understand and share information. It is the largest network in the world with computers in almost every country of the world. What is the World Wide Web? Also called "The Web," "W3," and "WWW," the World Wide Web is a global collection of multimedia documents that reside on the Internet. Web pages or documents contain links to other pages, forms to fill out, programs to be downloaded, sound files, movies and more. This system is woven around the world with hypertext and an addressing system as the glue holding it all together. Hypertext - allows the user to go to related information in the same or another database Address (location/URL) - identifies the location of a file. Makes linkage from one item to another possible. Browser - Software on your computer that retrieves and displays Web information for you. Everything You Wanted to Know About Hypertext....But Were Afraid to Ask Hypertext is a type of content that forms links to other content. Usually hypertext can be identified as underlined, colored text. Behind that colored text an Internet address is invisibly embedded so that if you click on it, the document at that address will be displayed on your screen. Knowing all the screen indicators (cursor becoming a hand, address showing at the bottom of the browser screen) are becoming increasingly important because the look and design of a Web page are often as important as content to those doing the development. As such, graphics, icons and blocks of what looks like just plain text can actually be hypertext. So, you may not have any other visual cue than the mouse pointer turning into a hand. For an example, move the cursor over text in the navigational bar on the left hand side of this page. Can you find the hypertext links? Root Domains Knowing something about root domains is a good starting point for dissecting URLs or web addresses. The collection of networks making up the Internet is divided into groups called domains. The domains represent either a type of organization or a geographical location. For example, a site domain ending in .edu indicates an educational institution, .com, a commercial enterprise, .gov, a U.S. government body, .mi., U.S. military, .net, networks, .org, a nonprofit organization. Examples: Domain Type of Organization Example .com Commercial organizations www.microsoft.com .edu Educational institutions www.monterey.edu .gov U.S. government irs.ustreas.gov .mil U.S. military nps.navy.mil .net Networks www.mbay.net .org Nonprofit organizations www.igc.org Geographic Names The geographical names representing a country or state are two letters long. For examples, take a look at FAQ: International Email Accessibility Additional resources: The Ultimate Guide to Internet Service Providers Best Routes to the Net: Top Internet Service Providers Yahoo: Internet Service Providers SurveyNet: Your source for dynamic, up-to-the-second information, opinions & demographics from the Net Community Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum Network Wizards Hobbes' Internet Timeline Beginner's Guides to the Internet Assignment to turn in for credit: Describe what each of these Internet services allows you to do: Email Listserv Usenet Chat FTP Telnet Gopher WWW Submit answer to instructor Go to: Chapter Two

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