A few things about internet

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Sarat Kumar Budumuru, Consultant BD, SynchroServe Global Solutions pvt. ltd., saratkumar.budumuru@gmail.com

A FEW THINGS ABOUT INTERNET

The Internet is a global network connecting millions of computers.

E.g. http://www.cnn.com

Parts in a web address:

http:// stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol.

'Protocol' is a set of rules a browser and a web server use to communicate with and understand each other.

A network protocol defines rules and conventions for communication between network devices. Protocols for computer networking all generally use packet switching techniques to send and receive messages in the form of packets.

The www stands for World Wide Web.

This means that the page you're looking for is somewhere on the World Wide Web.

The next section, which is cnn in this example, is the name of the server or web site.

It is flanked by dots, which separate it from other sections of the web address.

The .com here is the domain.

This tells you where the web page is registered, and often tells you what kind of web site it is.

For instance, .com usually means that you're looking at a commercial site, or a site that someone has paid to use. Some other common domain names are .edu (sites for educational institutions), .org (sites belonging to organizations), and .gov (sites sponsored by local, state, or federal governments).

A server is a system (software and suitable computer hardware) that responds to requests across a computer network to provide, or help to provide, a network service.

A browser is a software application designed to help you access information on the World Wide Web.

At its most basic, a browser will:1. Allow you to enter the URL of the resource you wish to retrieve from the internet3. Send a message to a server requesting that resource4. Accept the resource when the server returns it5. Translate the resource into a correctly laid out, viewable web page.

A webpage is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML).

A webpage may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors.

A web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_parts_of_a_web_address www.webopedia.com/TERM/I/Internet.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website

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A few things about internet

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