NETWORK

A network is a group of computers connected to each other so that they can share each others’s
resources and communicate with each other. In a computer network, all computers are peers and
there is no master-slave relationship between any two computers.

INTERNET

The term internet is derived from Interconnected Networks. Internet is a global network of
networks. The foundation of the Internet was laid with the conception of “Network in 1969 under
the supervision of the Defence and Advanced Research Project Agency. The name of the initial
network was the APRANET.

Uses of Internet

 Internet helps us to share information from any place in the world.

 Internet is a source of lot of information for education purposes.
 Internet enables fast transfer of news or incidents to people.
 Internet can be used for communication from one end of the world to the other.
 Without internet, the world would move slow nowadays.
 Internet is used for online shopping and for conducting business activities.
 Internet is used for downloading and uploading files.

WWW:- WWW stands for World Wide. It was developed in the CERN, Switzerland around the early
1990s. Digitization has particularly reached its peak after 2010. Every business now has internet
presence. A global network of computer using the internet to exchange web documents is called as
WWW.

Web Server:- A Web server is a computer capable of storing a large number of web pages. It makes
the web pages available on the web, on request by the user. It is also known as WWW server. The
primary function of a web server is to store, process and deliver web pages to clients. The
communication between client and server takes place using the HyperText Transfer Protocol.

Web Client:- Web client is an application that communicates with a web server using an HTTP
protocol. A web client is defined as a computer that receives from and gives information to the web
server. Example of web client is a web browser. It is also called as the performing complex business
tasks.

Web site:- A web site is a group of interrelated web pages related to a single organisation, cause,
institute etc. The introductory or first web page of a website is known as a home page. For a
commercial organisation, it enables its potential customers to learn about the organisation, its
products or services.
Web pages:- Web pages are the building blocks of the internet. They are made up of HTML code and
web browsers can read the information of web pages. A web page usually contains links to other
pages that link it to another page. Web page is a page that is suitable for WWW and web browser.

Blogging: Blogging is an activity in which people type in their views and opinions on things. Some of
the Websites that provide web space to write blogs are Wordpress, Blogger, weekly, etc. There are
also offline blog editors using which it is possible to upload to the blog site while working on the blog
text offline.

Newsgroup

Newsgroup enable remotely connected users to share, discuss and learn about their topic of interest
by exchanging text messages, images, videos and other forms of digital content.

Newsgroups are also referred to as usenet newsgroups.

These are discussion forums on the internet. There are various categories with in newsgroups.
Within each category, the discussion gets more and more specific.

HTML:- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language where each word holds a different meaning.

Hyper stands for the user as they can view the created web pages.

Text stands for anything written in English language.

Markup stands for the text as you can make up a special indicators through different types of
tags....................

Language signifies that it is a computer related language.

Web address or URL

A website address is also known as a URL and it is an internet or intranet name that points to a
location where a file, directory or website page is hosted.

IP ADDRESS

This is the address of a computer on the Internet . IP stands for Internet Protocol. An easy way to
know the IP address of a website would be using the following:

1. Open Run window by pressing Windows key + R.

2. Type in cmd and press Enter key.
3. In the command line window, type in: ping- t www. google.com
4. Press Enter key.
Email address:- Email is the letter in the electronic form that is sent by one person and can be
received by one or more people. The effect is almost the same as that of normal postal mail. In
urbanised areas of the world., writing letters has become a passé and email has taken up a lot of the
paper form.

TCP/IP

TCP/IP or Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol, is a set of communication protocols. It is

used to interconnect network devices on the internet. It is known to be most reliable and error-free
communication between the networking devices.

SMTP

SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It is a communication protocol for the transmission
of electronic mail. Most of the internet systems are SMTP as a method to send and receive mail from
one user to another.

HTTP.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this
protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions web servers and
browsers should take in response to various commands.

FTP

File transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files over a
TCP/IP based network, such as the Internet.

Advantages of FTP

The advantages of FTP are as follows

1. Allows you to transfer multiple files and directories at one time.

2. Allows you to resume a file transfer.
3. Gives you the ability to schedule a transfer.
4. Quick file transfer speeds.

TELNET

TELNET is a network protocol used on the internet or LAN connections. The purpose of the TELNET
protocol is to provide a fairly general, bi-directional, byte-oriented communications facility.

It is typically used to provide user-oriented command line login sessions between hosts on the
Internet.