1. Pertemuan 2
Chapter 2
The Internet & theWorldWideWeb
Exploring Cyberspace
Pengantar Teknologi Informasi
(PTI – 2 SKS)
Using Information Technology
Heni S
Fakultas Teknik dan Ilmu K
Universitas Teknokrat In
To the instructor:
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Physical connection - the wired or wireless means of connecting to the internet.
Broadband is a very high-speed connection.
Types of transmissions: upload and download
Transmission speeds:
Bps - bits per second.
Kbps - kilobits per second, or 1000 bits per second.
Mbps - megabits per second, or 1 million bits per second.
Gbps - gigabits per second, or 1 billion bits per second.
Types of wired internet access devices and their access speeds:
1. Modem: Most standard modems have a speed of 56 Kbps.
Using a modem and a phone line to establish a connection to the internet is called making a dial-up connection.
Types of wired internet access devices and their transmission speeds:
2. ISDN – Transmits 64 to 128 Kbps of data per second.
3. DSL – Receives data at the rate of 1.5-9 Mbps and sends data at only 64 Kbps-1.5 Mbps. Users can talk as well as transmits data at the same time.
4. T1 – Transmits 1.5 Mbps of data; generally used by corporate, government, & academic sites.
5. Cable modem:
It is always “on” like DSL
It transmits outgoing data at about 1.4 Mbps and incoming data at up to 50 Mbps
Communications satellite -- a space station that transmits radio waves called microwaves from earth-based stations
Download speed of 250-400 Kbps
Connections are always on
ISP that supports two-way satellite transmission is needed
Other wireless connections:
Radio waves are transmitted between towers that handle cellular phone calls
The data is send at up to 155 Mbps
The equipment costs from $200 to $2,500 and the operating cost is $159-$1,400 a month
Well-known ISPs:
AOL (America Online)
Earthlink
Microsoft Network (MSN)
AT&T WorldNet
POP (Point of Presence) - your ISP’s local access number for your area.
The ISP provides communications software for setting up the computer and modem
Log on - make a connection to the remote computer of your ISP.
POP:
The user is given local telephone numbers for the ISP’s POP.
The POP acts as a local gateway to the ISP’s network.
Backbones:
The backbone providers are:
AT & T
GTE
IBM
MCI
Netcom
Sprint
UUNET
When the user’s modem connects to a modem at the ISP’s location, the two modems go through a process called handshake where the fastest available transmission speed is established.
IP address:
An IP address consists of four sets of numbers between 0 and 255 separated by decimals.
The ISP assigns the computer a new, dynamic IP address.
Network access point (NAP)
NAP is a routing computer.
ISPs that do not run their backbones connect to an internet through a network access point (NAP).
PNAP’s facilitate more efficient routing of data back and forth in the internet by providing more backbone access locations.
TCP/IP determines:
The type of built-in error checking to be used
The data compression method
Whether or not the sending device has indicated that it has finished sending a message
How the receiving device will indicate that it has received a message
TCP/IP breaks data into packets
ISOC:
ISOC is a professional, nonprofit society with more than 150 organizational and 11,000 individual members in more than 182 countries
ICANN
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN) is a global, private-sector, nonprofit corporation
The maximum use of the internet worldwide is for sending and receiving email.
When retrieving messages using email software, the email is sent from the server to the computer using Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3).
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) has extended functions compared to POP3.
The different ways to get email software are:
Get an email program a part of other computer software:
Browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator
2. Get email software as part of your ISP package:
ISPs, such as AOL, EarthLink, AT&T WorldNet provide email software for their subscribers.
3. Get free email services:
The services are available from a variety of sources, ranging from so-called portals, or internet gateways, such as Yahoo!, Excite, or Lycos, to cable TV channel CNN’s website
4. Buy email software
Popular email software programs are Eudora, Outlook Express, and Lotus Notes
In addition to the textual message, email messages may have attachments.
Caution: One must never open an attached file from an unknown source. The attachment could be infected with virus or other harmful code that could infect the recipient's computer too.
An IM conversation occurs in a small window (rectangular area containing a document or activity) on each participant’s display screen.
Drawbacks of IM:
Lack of common standards
Time wasters when you have to get work done
Lack of privacy
Examples of IMs are AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ (“ I Seek You”) and Yahoo! Messenger
Mailing Lists:
Mailing lists are one-way or two-way.
Netiquette (network etiquette) - guides to appropriate online behavior.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) - documents that explain expected norms of online behavior for a particular group.
Flaming - writing an online message that uses derogatory, obscene, or inappropriate language.
Emoticons - keyboard-produced pictorial representations of expressions.
Shouting - Use of all capital letters is considered the equivalent of SHOUTING.
Avoid sloppiness, but avoid criticizing other’s sloppiness – Avoid spelling and grammatical errors . But do not criticize the same errors in other’s messages.
Huge Attachments – Avoid huge attachments unless requested.
When replying, quote only the relevant portion – Edit the user’s original text down to the relevant paragraph and then put in the response immediately.
Don’t overforward – Do not automatically forward emails to friends without checking if the contents are true and appropriate.
Spam - unsolicited email or junk mail in the form of advertising or chain letters.
Spamhaus tracks the internet’s worst spammers and works with ISPs and law enforcement agencies to identify and remove persistent spammers from the internet.
Top Span Tips
Guard your in-box
Use free web mail accounts
Use a disposable email address
Use fake addresses
Do not post your address
Do not answer spam
Opt out
Read the privacy policy
Use a spam filter
Hypertext - a system in which documents scattered across many internet sites are directly linked – with hyperlinks – so that a word or phrase in one document becomes a connection to a document in a different place.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) – is the set of special instructions (called “tags” or “markups”) that are used to specify document structure, formatting, and links to other multimedia documents.
The website is the location of a Web domain name in a computer on the internet.
Example - http://www.nps.gov/yosc/camping.htm
http:// - HyperText Transfer Protocol , the communications rules that allow browsers to connect with web servers
www.nps.gov/ - The www stands for “World Wide Web”. The .nps stands for “National Park Service” and .gov is the top-level domain name indicating that this is a government website
Yose/ - The directory name is the name on the server for the directory or folder
Wilderness.htm – This is a particular page or the document to be fetched
Hyperlinks: Words and phrases that appear as underlined or colored text – that are references to other web pages.
If the right mouse button is clicked, many commands, such as Back, Forward, etc. are available via a pop-up menu.
Back – Takes you to the previous page
Forward – Takes you to the next page
Home – Returns you to the home page
Search – Lists various other search tools
Web Portals:
The most popular portals are America Online, Yahoo!, Microsoft Network, Google, Netscape, Lycos, Go Network, Infoseek, Snap, Excite Network, AltaVista, and WebCrawler.
Search engines - WWW feature which allows you to find specific documents through keyword searches and menu choices.
Computer-created search sites – These are assembled by software “spiders” that crawl all over the web and send back reports to be collected and organized with little human intervention.
Hybrid search sites – human organization supplemented by computer created indexes.
Metasearch sites – send the query to several other different search tools and compile the results.
The operators are AND, OR, NOT, and 1 and 2 signs
Wildcards – *, ?
Applets - small programs that can be quickly downloaded and run by most browsers. Applets are written in Java.
Java – a complex programming language that enables programmers to create animated and interactive web pages.
Visual Studio.NET – a technology developed by Microsoft to compete with Java.
“Pull technology” - you go to a website and pull down the information you want.
Webcasting companies are also called subscription services, because they are sell-on-demand services
FTP:
A method whereby you can connect to a remote computer called an FTP site and transfer files to your own microcomputer’s hard disk, via TCP/IP over the internet.
FTP client programs, such as Fetch, Cute, and FTP pro are special programs that help in ftp file download.
Telnet - a protocol that runs on TCP/IP and allows you to connect to remote computers on the internet using a user name and a password to run programs on those computers.
The telnet feature is particularly useful for perusing large databases at universities, government agencies, or libraries.
FACTOID: The specification for Telnet was first developed in June 1980 by Jon Postel.
Distance learning - the name given to online education programs.