Internet Concepts

What is the Internet?

Worldwide system where computers can communicate
and share information and other resources
WWW – World Wide Web
URL – Uniform Resource Locator
Web browsers –
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera

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Internet Today

Public
Cooperative
Self-sustaining facility accessible to hundreds of
millions of people worldwide

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Internet Today
The World Wide Web is a
huge set of interlinked
documents, images and
other resources, linked
by hyperlinks and URLs.

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What is a browser?

Application program that provides a way to look

at and interact with all the information on the
World Wide Web
Also known as Internet browser
Uses the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to
make requests of web browsers on the Internet
Parts of browser

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What is a browser?

Title Bar Address bar

Toolbar Icons

Display

Status Bar

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Internet Today: Case Study

Google (Search Engine)

Founded : September 1998 (9 years)
Sergy Brin / Larry Page
(Both 34 years old & 5th US richest with networth of
US$ 18.5 billion)
Cited #1 Best Company to Work For by Fortune Magazine
Revenue : US$ 10.604 Billion (FY’06)
Net Income : US$ 3.077 Billion Many Google
employees
Total Asset : US$ 18.473 became instant
Employees : 15,916 millionaire
Servers : 450,000

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Internet Today: Case Study Keywords were sold based
on a combination of price
bid and clickthrough
starting at US$.05
Products and Services :
Selling Advertisements – Associated by Keywords
Licensing
Personalized Home Page
Radio and Print Publication – dMarc and Chicago Sun Times
Bloggers – Pyra Labs
Online Word Processing – Upstartle
Online Video Site – YouTube (Bought for US$1.6 Billion)
Advertising Exchange - DoubleClick – Bought for (US$ 3.1 billion)
Etc.

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Search Engine (Google Site)

Web and Image Search
Google News
Google Map / Earth
Gmail
Google Video
Google Labs – Application for General Public
Android – competitor of Apple iPhone
Picasa – Photo Organizer and Editor
Shopping

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Internet : Interesting Sites

Google (www.google.com)
Friendster ( www.friendster.com )
Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
Myspace (www.myspace.com)
YouTube (www.youtube.com)
Facebook (www.facebook.com)

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