Internet Basics

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The internetand the World Wide Web

Internet Basics

The web is not the internet?!

The internet is the physical parts you can touch, like computers, connections, routers, modems, etc.

The Web is the content part like: websites, text, pictures, links, sound, etc.

To connect to the internet you need 4 basic components:

A device

A internet provider (ISP)

A modem

A browser

There are several browsers to connect and navigate the web:

Internet Explorer

Google Chrome

Safari

Mozilla Fire Fox

Opera

and many others

To assist you with your searches, there are several search engines:

AOL 1.1%

Ask 0.24%

Baidu 6.48%

Bing 12.26%

Google 69.24%

Lycos 0.00%

Yahoo! 9.19%

Emailing is a way of:

Sending and receiving text messages, attachments, pictures, and other documents throughout electronic media like the internet

A sample of web-based email providers:

Google.com

live.com (outlook.com)

aol.com

mail.com

yahoo.com

This diagram shows the structure of the web and how we connect to the internet