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ISP: It stands for Internet Service Provider. It is a
company that provides Internet access on payment of
a monthly fee. Some of the ISPs are MTNL (Mahanagar

Telephone Nigam Limited), BSNL (Bharat Sanchar
Nigam Limited), Jio, Airtel, Vodafone Idea, etc.

Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology to provide

wireless high-speed Internet and network connections.

Common Terms

URL: It stands for Uniform Resource Locater. It is the unique address of a website,
such as www.google.com, www.rediffmail.com.

Hyperlink: It is a link on a text or on an image, which on clicking takes the user
to the another location. These are highlighted and underlined text which changes

the mouse pointer to a hand pointer ( ) when mouse pointer is placed over these
links.

Offline: When the user works on a system without the Internet connection then it
is called offline.

Online: When the user works on a system with the Internet connection then it is
called online.

Surfing: Moving from one website to another or one web page to another is called
surfing.

Website: A collection of related web pages is called a website.

Web page: A single online page related to a topic is called a web page.

REFRESH

Internet is a global network of millions of computers and computer networks all over
the world.

The various uses of Internet are e-mail, information, online shopping, online chatting,
and downloading and uploading data.
The things required for having an Internet connection are computer system, telephone
and cable lines, modem, web browser and ISP.

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