Transcript IST 291 – Chapter 1

OST 162-001
More about using Macs
The Internet
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Terms:
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Browser - a software application that enables a
user to display and interact with text, images, and
other information typically located on a web page
at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area
network
URL - Uniform Resource Locator – address of
websites (ex. http://www.google.com)
Web pages - a resource of information that is
suitable for the World Wide Web and can be
accessed through a web browser
Hyperlinks – a navigation element that links from
one document to another
Bookmarks – pointers to URLs
History of the Internet
1969 – Birth of the Internet with ARPANET
commissioned by DoD
 1971 – email invented (23 hosts)
 1977 – international networks with more than
100 hosts
 1982 – TCP/IP is defined
 1984 – number of hosts break 1000
 1989 – now more than 100,000 hosts
 1991 – WWW is invented by CERN
 1994 – commercialization is allowed (host
break 3million)
 1997 – 19.5 million hosts
 Today – approx. 200 million Internet users
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Google
Other favorites
 Espn.com
 Imdb.com
 Yahoo.com
 Cnn.com
 wikipedia.org
 Weather.com
 Ebay.com
 Half.com
System Preferences
 Allows
you to change the
settings of a number of features
on you computer.
 Personal
 Hardware
 Internet and Network
 System
Personal
Appearance
 Dashboard & Expose
 Desktop & Screensaver
 Dock
 International
 Security
 Spotlight
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Hardware
 CDs and DVDs
 Displays
 Energy saver
 Keyboard & Mouse
 Print & Fax
 Sound
Internet & Network
 .Mac
 Network
 Quicktime
 Sharing
System
 Accounts
 Date & Time
 Software Update
 Speech
 Startup Disk
 Universal Access
Exercises
 Make an Alias – Page 172
 Search for files – Page 174
 Spotlight – Page 177
 Spotlight Windows – Page 178
Burning Cds
 CD
Formats
CD-ROM
CD-R
CD+R (don’t
CD-RW
 CD
get)
Preferences
Dashboard
 Provides
quick access to
information customized for you,
by you in the form of widgets.
F12 will make the dashboard
appear and disappear
Questions?