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REQUIREMENTS FOR CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET                                                                                COMMONLY USED INTERNET TERMS


            A computer requires the following things to connect to the                                                                There are some basic terms that are associated with Internet. These are:
            Internet:                                                                                                                    Web Page: It is a digital document on
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            Modem: The modem stands for modulator-demodulator.                                                                           the Internet. It contains information in                            Century   #Initiative
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                                                                                                                                         the form of text, pictures, animations,            “Do  not  share your private
                                                                                                                                         videos, etc.                                       information on the Internet.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                - Mr. Techie
                                                                                                                                         Websites: It is a collection of related
                                     Telephone Connection:  A telephone  connection  acts  as a

                                     medium to transfer data from one computer to another.                                               web pages that provide information.
                                                                                                                                         World Wide Web: It is a virtual storehouse of information. In fact, it is the largest

                                                                                                                                         collection of electronic information which is stored in the form of websites.

            Internet  Connection:  An Internet connection  is                                                                            Web Browser: It is a software that helps to view a website on a computer, mobile
            provided by many Internet Service Providers (ISP)                                                                            or tab. Computers running the Windows 10 operating system come with Microsoft
            on payment of a monthly fee. Some of the ISPs are                                                                            Edge as their default web browser.

            BSNL (Bharat  Sanchar Nigam  Limited),  Jio,  Airtel,                                                                        URL: It stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of a website, such
            Vodafone, etc.                                                                                                               as www.google.com, www.rediffmail.com, etc.

                                                                                                                                         Search Engine: A search engine is a program that searches through the collection
                                                                              Web      Browser:       A    web                           of web pages and helps us locate the website or information we are looking for.
                                                                              browser is a software used to                              Google is the most popular search engine. Some other examples are Bing and

                                                                              open various web pages and                                 Yahoo.
                                                                              fetch or retrieve information

              Microsoft         Mozilla         Google           Safari       from the World Wide Web.
                Edge            Firefox         Chrome                        Some of the most commonly                                       uiz              Fill in the blanks.
                                                                              used  web browsers are:                                                Bee       1.   _____________ is a device that enables a computer to transmit

            Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.                                                                                            data over a network.
                                                                                                                                                               2.  ISP stands for  _____________ .



                           Name of the first web browser
                                                                                                                                                USING URLs


                                                                                                                                      URLs  are the  key to navigate  the web. To open a website, type the URL  in the
            Computer System: It is an integrated system with all the                                                                  browser’s address bar that appears at the top of the browser window and then,

            different  types  of input,  output,  processing  and  storage                                                            press the Enter key.
            devices.
                                                                                                                                      Suppose,  you  want to  visit  the  website  of Touchpad.  To do  this,  you  can  type
                                                                                                                                      https://www.orangeeducation.in in the address bar and press the Enter key.





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