Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation
THE INTERNET
Introduction
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use standard
Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide.
The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services,most notably the
inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web and the infrastucture to support
electronic mail.
Most traditional communications media,such as telephone and television services,are
reshaped or redefined using the technologies of the Internet,giving rise to services as
Voice over Internet Protocol and IPTV.
The Internet has enabled or accelerated the creation of new forms of human interactions
through instant messaging,Internet forums and social networking sites.
The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or
policies for access and usage;each constituent network sets its own standards.
TECHNOLOGY
Protocols
Structure
It has been determinated thet both the Internet IP routing structure and hypertext links of
the World Wide Web are examples of scale-free networks.
Similar to the way the commercial Internet providers connect via Internet exchange
points,research networks tend to interconnect into large subnetworks such as
GEANT,GLORIAD,Internet2,etc.
Many computer scientists describe the Internet as a “prime example of a large-
scale,highly engineered,yet highly complex system“.
Modern uses
Information
Many people use terms Internet and World Wide Web,or just Web,interchangeably,but
two terms are not synonymous.
The World Wide Web is a global set of documents,images and other resources,logically
interrelated by hyperlinks and referenced with Uniform Resource Identifiers.
URIs allow providers to symbolically identify services and clients to locate and address
web servers,file servers and other databases that store documents and provide resources
and access them using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP,the primary carrier protocol
of the Web.
HTTP is only one of the hundreds of communication protocols used on the Internet.
World Wide Web browser software,such as Microsoft Internet Explorer,Mozilla
Firefox,Opera,Apples Safari and Google Chrome,let users navigate from one web page to
another with help of hyperlinks embedded in the documents.
These documents may also contain any combination of computer data,including
graphics,sounds,text,video,multimedia and interactive content including games,office
applications and scientific demonstrations.
Through keyword-driven Internet research using search engines like Yahoo! And
Google,users worldwide have easy,instant access to a vast and diverse amount of online
information.
Compared to printed encyclopedias and traditional liraries,the World Wide Web has
enable the decentralization of information.
The Web has also enabled individuals and organizations to publish ideas and information
to a potentially large audience online at greatly reduced expense and time delay.
Many individuals and some companies and groups use web logs or blogs,which are
largely used as easily updatable online diaries.
In the early days,web pages were usually created as sets of complete and isolated HTML
text files stored on a web server.
More recently,websites are more often created using content management or wiki
software with,initially,very little content.
Comunication
Data transfer
File sharing is an example of transferring large amounts of data across the Internet.
A computer file can be e-mailed to customers,colleagues and friends as an attachment.
It can be uploaded to a website or FTP server for easy download by others.
It can be put into a “shared location“ or onto a file server for instant use.
The load of bulk downloads to many users can be eased by the use of “mirror“ servers or
peer-to-peer networks.
In any of these cases,access to the file may be controlled by users authentication,the
transit of the file over the Internet may be obsured by encryption,and money may change
hands for access to the file.
The origin and authenticit of the file recieved may be checked by digital signatures or by
MD5 or other message digests.
Nowday,the range of available types of content is much wider,from specialized technical
webcasts to on-demand popular multimedia services.
Conclusion
The Internet has enabled entirely new forms of social interaction,activities and
organizing,thanks to its basic features such as widespread usability and access.
Social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace have created a new form of
socialization and interation.
Many people use the World Wide Web to access news,weather and sports report,to plan
and book vacations and to find out more about their interests.
People use chat,messaging and e-mail to make and stay in touch with friends
worldwide,sometimes in the same way as some previously had pen pals.
Social networking websites like MySpace,Facebook and many others,like them also put
and keep people in contact for their enjoyment.
The Internet has seen a growing number of Web desktops,where users can access their
files and settings.
The Internet has been criticized for its Identity Performativity.
User's define and lable themselves on social networking sites through artistic
tastes,personal experiences,visuals,etc.
Some argue that the ability to construct a user's identity is limited by other's work and
criticize the Internet's lack of physical interaction.