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THE INTERNET BY HUGO GOMES
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THE INTERNET
BY HUGO GOMES
The Internet is in all our lives, whether we like it or
not. We can try to avoid it, but it always finds a way
to return to our minds. This English assessment will
be focusing on the Internet since there are many
topics to be discussed and it’s something we all know
a little something about and can’t really say that we
wouldn’t like to learn more.
Preface
The Internet is defined as being an international
grid of computer networks linked together providing
e-mail and information from computers in educational
institutions, government agencies and industry,
accessible to the general public via modem links.
The Definition
In the 1960s a U.S. defence research project created
a linked network that allowed the computers to share
information; this network was called Advanced
Research Projects Agency Network, or ARPAnet for
short. This network, along with others, started
developing unceasingly throughout the years and it is
today known as the Internet.
The Creation
Generally speaking, the internet can be used as a: Source of information;
Source of entertainment;
Source of employment;
Tool
Uses of the Internet
A social network is a social structure made up of
individuals connected by one or more types of
interdependency, such as friendship, kinship,
common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual
relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge
or prestige.
Social Network: definition
MySpace
Hi5
Orkut
Social Networks
Facebook is a social networking service and website
launched in February 2004, operated and privately
owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011,
Facebook has more than 600 million active users
making it the most visited website of all.
Twitter is a website owned and operated by Twitter
Inc. which offers a social
networking and microblogging service, enabling its
users to send and read messages called tweets.
Tweets are text-based posts of up to
140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.
Myspace, MySpace or My____ is a social
networking website. Myspace became the most
popular social networking site in the United States in
June 2006, a position that it held throughout 2007
until April 2008, when Facebook took the throne and
became number one.
MySpace
The Internet has made the search for
information much easier. You can find any type of
information you need cosily sitting on your chair or
sofa, at home, while a few years ago you had to leave
your home, probably drive to a library, find the right
book (or books!) and eventually sit down to find the
information you needed.
Information
Wikipedia
Yahoo!
Useful sites to find information
Wikipedia is a free, web based , collaborative,
multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-
profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 18 million articles have
been written collaboratively by volunteers around the
world, including yours truly, and almost all of its articles
can be edited by anyone with access to the site. It’s
ranked as the 12th most popular site of all.
Wikipedia
Yahoo! Inc. is an American Internet corporation. The
company is perhaps best known for its web
portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo!
Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo!
Video, and social media websites and services. It is
one of the largest websites in the United States. It
employs over 13,000 people.
Yahoo!
eHow is an online how-to guide with more than 1
million articles and 170,000 videos offering step-by-
step instructions. eHow articles and videos are
created by freelancers and cover a wide variety of
topics organised into a hierarchy of categories.
eHow
Youtube
Important Sites
Google Search or Google Web Search is a web
search engine owned by Google Inc. and is the most
used search engine. Google receives hundreds of
millions of queries each day through its various
services. The main purpose of Google Search is to
hunt for text in webpages.
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users
can upload, share, and view videos, created by three
former PayPal employees in February 2005. Youtube is
the third most visited site of all, behind Facebook and
Google.
Youtube
eBay
Amazon
PayPal
Online Trading
eBay is an online auction and shopping website in which
people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of
goods and services worldwide. At first you could only bid
for the items, but later on a “Buy Now” function was
implemented: the seller can choose a price that he finds
acceptable to sell the product immediately and the
buyer can choose to do so, or keep bidding.
eBay
Amazon.com, Inc. is a US-
based multinational electronic commerce company
headquartered in Seattle. It is the largest online
retailer in the United States. Amazon.com started as an
online bookstore, but soon diversified,
selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer
software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture,
food, and toys.
Amazon
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing
payments and money transfers to be made through
the Internet. Online money transfers serve as
electronic alternatives to traditional paper methods
such as cheques and money orders. Paypal was
bought by eBay in 2002. PayPal is a common
payment method in many online shops or games.
PayPal
There are over 1 billion computers in the world.
There are over 2 billion internet users in the world
which is 30,2% of the world’s total population.
Over 20 million web pages are added every day.
Almost 60% of everything written on the Net is in
English. Most users are male.
Curiosities
Statistics
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera
Browsers
Microsoft Office
WinRar
Adobe Photoshop
Windows Media Player
Windows Live Messenger
Anti-viruses
Important programs
Microsoft Office is a proprietary commercial office
suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers
and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS
X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in 1989.
Microsoft Office integrates Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
Outlook, and other programs.
Microsoft Office
WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data
compression utility developed by Eugene and
Alexander Roshal, and first released in autumn of
1993. It is one of the few applications that is able to
create RAR archives natively, because the encoding
method is held to be proprietary.
WinRar
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing
program developed and published by Adobe Systems
Incorporated. It’s considered to be the leading
graphics editing program and can be used by anyone.
Adobe Photoshop
Windows Media Player is a proprietary digital
media player and media library application developed
by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and
viewing images on personal computers.
Windows Media Player
Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN
Messenger) is an instant messaging client created
by Microsoft. In June 2009, Microsoft reported the
service attracted over 330 million active users each
month.
MSN Messenger
Anti-virus software is used to prevent, detect, and
remove malware, including but not limited
to computer viruses, computer worm, trojan
horses, spyware and adware. This page talks about
the software used for the prevention and removal of
such threats, rather than computer
security implemented by software methods.
Anti-viruses
A computer virus is a computer program that can
copy itself and infect a computer. The term "virus" is
also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other
types of malware, including but not limited
to adware and spyware programs that do not have
the reproductive ability.
Computer virus
ILOVEYOU, also known as Love Letter, is a computer
worm that successfully attacked tens of millions of
computers in 2000 when it was sent as an attachment to
a user with the text "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line. The
worm arrived e-mail on and after May 4, 2000 with the
simple subject of "ILOVEYOU" and an attachment "LOVE-
LETTER-FOR-YOU“. It caused 5.5 Billion US Dollars in
damage.
ILOVEYOU
It reproduced itself by replacing files with copies of itself.
It sent itself through Internet Relay Chat clients as well
as e-mail.
It downloaded a file called WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE from the
Internet and executed it. Rather than fix bugs, this
program was a password-stealing application that e-
mailed secret information to the hacker's e-mail address.
What ILOVEYOU did
A web browser is a software application for
retrieving, presenting, and traversing information
resources on the World Wide Web.
What is a browser?
The Internet made it possible for anyone to read
newspapers, to watch films or TV series, to listen to
songs and to read (or listen to) books entirely for free.
You can even get free cable TV! All you need is an
Internet connection and you’re all set.
Internet Takes Over
Many people are concerned about their privacy while
they are online, although if they have their computers
protected with an antivirus and a firewall they can be
quite safe as long as they don’t visit suspicious sites,
register on doubtful services or download malicious files.
Also, when you use a router to connect to the Internet
remember to password protect it or anyone close to you
can steal all your information!
Privacy
Update your operating system;
Keep your antivirus and firewall updated and running;
Avoid websites you’ve never heard of if you think they
might be dangerous;
Do not download files that you don’t need or didn’t
request;
Avoid clicking on advertisements on any websites.
Some tips to keep you safe
A hacker can be defined in many ways, but the
two most common and correct ones are the
following:
1. An enthusiastic and skillful computer programmer
or user.
2. A person who uses computers to gain unauthorized
access to data.
Hacker
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all
the books are on the floor.
Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away.
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help
consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of
data
Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any
last resistance.
Quotes on the Internet
Now let us watch a video that will explain the History
of the Internet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4
Video Time!
