Lesson 3 (Computing)
Lesson 3 (Computing)
Topics to be discussed
1. The Internet
2. Computer crime
3. Technology on everyday life
Objectives
Introduction
Digital technology has generally improved on our traditional ways of doing things.
The Internet can be said as the collection of local, regional, and national computer networks that
are linked together to exchange data and distribute processing tasks.
The Internet evolved from an experiment with four computers into a vast information network
that connects millions of microcomputers, minicomputers, mainframes, and supercomputers.
The internet uses high speed data lines, called backbones to carry data. Smaller networks
connect to the backbone, enabling any user on any network to exchange data with any other user.
Most importantly, the internet is not really about computers, it is about people, communication
and sharing knowledge.
A large part of the internet is the World Wide Web www. This is made up of web sites that
have one or more web pages.
The Web
Email
Telnet
FTP
Chat and Instant Messaging Systems