Sunday, 18 December 2011

~ ♥ ~ History & the Underlyning Technologies ~ ♥ ~

SESSION 1

Internet
starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers.
 began with point-to-point communication between mainframe conputers and terminal.
expanded to point-to-point connections between computers.
and then early research into packet switching.
packet switched were developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s using a variety of protocols.
in 1982, the concept of a world-wide network of fully interconnected TCP/IP networks called INTERNET was produced and Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) was standardized.

Uses of INTERNET.
~ send e-mail message.
~ upload or download files between computers.
~ Travel all over the world.
~ blogging is use as a communication platform to interact with people.
~ Can find anything to buy through Internet.
~ Social networking has created new ways to coomunicate and share information among us.
~ Can learn to do anything or sharp a skill a skill you already have.

7 Layers of OSI Model.

HTML ( HyperText Markup Language )
is the predominant matkup language for web pages.
basic building-blocks of webpages.
♥  consisting of tags, enclosed in angle bracket (like <html>), within the web page content.

World Wide Web (WWW)
= abbreviated as WWW or W3, and commonly known as the Web.
= view web pages that contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and nivigate between them via hyperlinks.



Latest Development In Internet
File Sharing
   - Napster, Gnutella, Morphues
Dot Net
   - XML based Web Services
   - "Semantic Net"
Broadband
   - Media Delivery over the Web


SESSION 2

ISP, Configuring Internet Connection, Troubleshooting.

Way Internet Working.


Internet Connection

 IP Adressing
~ Internet Protocol address (IP address)
~ numerical label assigned to each device numerical label assigned to each device.
~  serves two principal function :
    - host or network interface identification
    - location addressing
~  designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP address as a 32-bit number.


URL ( uniform resource locator or universal resource locator)
  specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.
another protocol that can be used in Internet is File Transfer Protocol (FTP) & Telnet Protocol.

Troubleshooting Internet Connection
~ Make sure you have the correct IP scheme for your network.
   -IP Address
   -Subnet Mask
   -Default Gateway
   -DNS Servers
~ Basic PING Tests
~ Check Browser configuration

SESSION 3

Issue About Internet.
~ security of people and their information when using the Internet.
  e.g. : Username & Password - jot down your username & password
                                                 - keep the username & password safely absolutely NOT in our computer
                                                
Phishing 
~ way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
~ by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
~ typically carried out by e-mail spoofing or instant messaging.
~ often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look & feel are almost identical to the legitimate one.

Spoofing
~ situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another.
~ falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage.

Virus Protection Software               
McAfee
Norton Anti Virus

Firewall
device or set of devices designed to permit or deny network transmissions.
frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communications to pass.



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