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Intro to Surfing
Surfing Info
Internet History
Selected Sites 1
Selected Sites 2
InterNet Searching
Home Page Guide
ISPs
Hardware
E-Mail and Usenet
FTP and Telnet
Try This Quiz

Selected References

 

Introduction to Surfing

A Painless Internet Tutorial Study
Copyright © Cabaup and Cabaup
  1. Back to the Welcome Page

  2. Basic Info

    1. The Internet:

      1. DOD: Advanced Research Project Agency (in the 70s).
      2. ARPANET: Is a decentralized computer network.
      3. ARPANET ---> NSFNET (in the 80s)
      4. WWW: Developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, is a network of over 100,000 computer networks (over 30,000,000 computer systems).

    2. WWW

      1. Is a part of the internet.
      2. It is not a collection of networks.
      3. Is information collected and linked together like a web.
      4. "The WWW is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodyment of human knowledge." ... Tim Berners-Lee

    3. About the World Wide Web or WWW or W3

    4. A Web Browser lets you access a WWW site.
      A browser may provide a graphical interface.
      Which one do you use?

      1. Mosaic
      2. Netscape Navigator
      3. Internet Explorer

    5. Hyperlinks: What you click on ... links.

    6. Internet Services

      1. Telnet
      2. E-Mail
      3. FTP
      4. Internet News or Usenet
      5. Gopher

    7. HTTP://

      1. HyperText Transfer Protocol.
      2. Text that contains links to other text or to hypermedia.

    8. HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

    9. Client: Can be software (e.g. the program Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) that communicates with a computer such as a server.

    10. Server: Is a computer that receives your information and communicates your instructions.

    11. URL: An address; Uniform Resource Locator.
      What you see is a domain name (e.g. www.mwc.edu).
      At basic it is numerical (e.g. 192.65.245.76) an IP address,
      with each group of numbers from 0 to 255.

    12. Fully Qualified Domain Name: www.mwc.edu

    13. Mail Address: somebody@lib.umich.edu

    14. IP: Internet Protocol, for example TCP/IP.

    15. TCP: Transmission Control Protocol.

      1. Packets of Bytes are sent.
      2. Using TCP a single large message is broken up into a group of smaller packets (IP packets).
      3. At the destination, the TCP software puts the small packets together into a complete message.
      4. Small packets lost or damaged are then resent.

    16. Router: Hardware which accepts or rejects packets.

    17. Modem.

      1. PPP: Point to Point Protocol
      2. SLIP: Serial Line Internet Protocol

    18. Direct Connect: Network card.

    19. The Twelve Networking Truths

  3. Let's Try Some Sites

    1. Try the bookmark of www.cybermater.org

    2. Try www.vlib.org. What did you find?

    3. Try www.yahoo.com.

      1. Find "Entertainment".
      2. And then visit three (3) different amusement parks in three (3) different countries.

    4. Consumer Information at www.pueblo.gsa.gov

      1. Look up tips for finding the right job.
      2. E-mail a copy to a friend
      3. Save a file in the computer
      4. View it as a local file.
      5. Could you use this in a word doc?

    5. What is a Cam?

    6. Try The University of Cambridge
      Computer Laboratory Coffee Pot Cam

    7. Try www.npr.org

    8. Try www.browsers.com

    9. Try www.browserwatch.internet.com

  4. Some questions for yourself:

    1. Do you use the Internet?
    2. Why do you use the Internet?
    3. What browser do you use?
    4. What search engine do you use?
    5. Want to find a job?

      1. Try http://comet.berl.tec.nh.us/~jcabaup/college/courses/env/placement.html
      2. Then try http://comet.berl.tec.nh.us/~jcabaup/college/courses/env/specific.html
      3. Can this be helpful to you?

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