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The Internet

The document discusses the internet and how it allows users to send and receive emails and browse websites. Websites consist of web pages linked together and contain text, images, videos and other multimedia. URLs locate resources on the internet and include the protocol, site address, path and filename. An ISP provides users access to the internet for a fee and there are different ways to access the internet such as dial-up, cable or broadband.

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The Internet

The document discusses the internet and how it allows users to send and receive emails and browse websites. Websites consist of web pages linked together and contain text, images, videos and other multimedia. URLs locate resources on the internet and include the protocol, site address, path and filename. An ISP provides users access to the internet for a fee and there are different ways to access the internet such as dial-up, cable or broadband.

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THE INTERNET

The internet is a worldwide collection of networks which allows a subscriber to send and receive
emails, chat (using text or voice) or browse the world wide web.
The world wide web (WWW or web) is the part of the internet which the user can access by way
of a web browser (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer). A web browser is software that allows the
user to display and interact with pages and files from the web.

Websites
The web is made up of millions of these websites and millions of web pages Web pages are
documents on a computer screen which may consist of text, pictures, sounds, animation or video
(i.e. multimedia). A website consists of many of these pages linked together.

The website shows these hyperlinks to allow users to navigate between web pages.
These hyperlinks are often shown as blue underlined text or sometimes a small hand
appears _ under a picture or under some text indicating the link to another page or
website. The user clicks on these hyperlinks using a mouse (or other pointing
device) to move to another page.

Web browsers use uniform resource locations (URLs) to retrieve files. URLs are
a standard way of locating a resource on the internet; they are usually a set of four
numbers, e.g. 194.106.220.19. or protocol://site address/path/filename (Easier to remember)
where:
_ protocol is usually https://www.oshwalacademynairobi.sc.ke/admissions
_ site address consists of: host computer name, domain name, domain type and
(very often) the country code:
_ computer name is usually www
_ domain name is the name of the website
_ domain type is commonly one of the following: .com, .org, .co, .net, .gov
_ examples of country code include .uk, .us, .de, .cy
_ path is the web page
_ filename is the item on the webpage.
Thus, a full URL could be https://www.urlexamples.co.cy/pages/example1

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Summary Parts of URL

Accessing the internet


An ISP is a company that provides users with access to the internet, usually for a fee. When a user
registers with an ISP, an account is set up and they are given login details, which include a
username and a password. The user connects to the internet via the user account which also
allows the provider to monitor usage. Most ISPs also provide an email account. Emails allow
attachments, which can be word-processed documents, spreadsheets, data files, music files, movie
files, etc.

An email address contains two parts: [email protected] OR [email protected]


The first part is the user name e.g. example1 or example2 and the second part is @
followed by host name e.g. @yahoo.co.uk or @yahoo.com.

There are three common ways of accessing the internet offered by service providers:
• _ dial-up internet access
• _ cable internet access
• _ digital subscriber line (DSL) (broadband) internet access.

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