Internet and E-mail

This is

the world-wide network

of computers accessible to anyone who knows their Internet Protocol (

IP

) address. The of numbers (such as

IP

address is a unique set

207.46.222.30

) that defines the computer's location. Most will have accessed a computer using a

name

such as http://www.hailey.tech.officelive.com

.

Introduction

Introduction

Introduction

Services of Internet

 World Wide Web  E-mail  Newsgroups  Chatting  FTP  E-Commerce

Advantage of Internet

          Collection of information Free and Cheap E-Commerce Communication (Text, Audio and Video ) E-Banking E-Tickting Research News Distance Learning Work from anywhere

Disadvantages of Internet

         Security Risk Privacy Issues Viruses Computer and Internet Literacy Wastage of time Spamming Difficult Filtration pornographic

contents Unreliable Information

Web Site Terminology

 Website  Home Page/Landing Page  Link  Anchor  Image Map  Frame  Table

The “Guts” of the Web

 HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)  HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)  WEBMASTER  DOMAIN NAME  URL (Uniform Resource Locator)  ISP (Internet Service Provider)

Terms for the Tools

 Browser (Also known as Client)     IE Fire Fox Opera Google Chrome 

In a Web Browser: Tool Bar Options:

[Menu Bar , Address Bar, Standard Tool Bar , Status Bar] [Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, Home, Search, Favorites, History, Mail, Print] Server  Web Server, Mail Server, Ads server, Database Server

 Function of Address Bar  Save a Webpage  Download information from a webpage  Print a page  Save a Image  Search Engine [Altavista, yahoo, google, excite, lycos etc.]

Email & its service providers



EMAIL

: Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks. Originally, email was transmitted directly from one user to another computer. 

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SERVICE PROVIDERS:

GMAIL Hotmail YAHOO Outlook These are the commonly used and free e-mail service providers.

E-mail

 Free Email Service providers   Hotmail Yahoo    Gmail AOL Lycos

Advantages:

[Fast, Cheap, Attachment, Address Book, Write & Save Messages]

How to Make a Email Account:

[Profile and Account information] [Captcha Form Field]

Sign In, Sign Up, Sign Out Send / Receive Emails:

[Open Email Account, Compose email, To, CC, Bcc, Subject, Attachment, Body Text, end Email, Receive Emails in Inbox, Spam or Junk Email]

E-mail

   

Spam

-- usually refers to

advertising e-mails

out

randomly

to

generated

e-mail addresses. sent

Junk e-mails --

are usually sent from sites which have a you have signed onto(sites) them using your e-mail as your

record userid

of your e-mail address either because , or because you have

ticked

the appropriate box(check box) on the web-site allowing them to use your e-mail address in this way.

Inbox

-- contains new incoming emails.

Sent

-- A copy of messages you send are put into the

Sent

folder, if the

Save to sent

box is checked when you compose a message.

E-mail

  

Drafts

-- A place for storing messages that you haven't finished writing. If you're in the middle of writing a message and need to stop for some reason, click the

Save

button to put it into the Drafts folder.

Trash

-- stores email that you have chosen to delete. When you delete email from a folder, it is put into the

Trash

folder. The messages are not truly deleted until you empty the folder.

Attachment

– a file (documents, images, sounds or video clip) inserted within an email message.

Exercise Questions