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The web pages are interlinked through hypertext. When you click on a hypertext then another webpage or website
linked will open and help you navigate on the internet.
A Web server is a computer that stores web sites and their related files. A website is accessed by a web address or a
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for viewing the webpages on the Internet.
What was the name of the first web browser?
Basic Internet Terminologies
Some of the important terms related to the Internet are as follows:
• Web Page: A digital page designed using HTML and contains the hypertext that helps link multiple pages.
• Web Site: It is made up of multiple webpages interlinked using hyperlinks and hypertext and have a common related
content.
• IP Address: It is a unique combination of characters that uniquely identifies each computer in a network.
• Web Server: It is a computer which has the content of a specific website. The client computer sends a request for a
web content and the web server responds to the request by sending a copy of the web content on the client machine.
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator): It is the unique address of a webpage located on the internet.
• Protocol: The set of rules followed in a network for efficient and error free data transfer.
• HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol): It is the protocol followed for sending and receiving files over the world wide web.
• HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): It is the basic language used to design webpages with hypertext and
hyperlinks.
Benefits of Networking
The following are the benefits of connecting the computer through a network:
• File sharing: You can share files like text files, spreadsheets, documents, presentations, audio files, video files, etc.
amongst different users and access the file from any location if devices are interconnected.
• Data Sharing: Data can be easily shared, sent and received through network.
• Resource Sharing (Hardware and Software): Devices like scanners, printers connected through the network can be
accessed easily by multiple users and hence saves money.
• Communication: Network provides a common platform for communication. Users can easily send and receive
messages, and can connect through audio and video chats.
• Internet Sharing: A single connection of the internet can be shared amongst different computers connected through
a network. This makes it cost effective.
GETTING ACCESS TO INTERNET THROUGH INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS
To access the internet at home, in school or in offices we need to have an internet connection. The companies that
provide an internet connection are known as Internet Service Providers (ISP). In India initially when the Internet was
launched then the internet services were provided by only VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited). Later on Indian
government did the privatisation of the service providers and so now almost all telecom companies provides Internet
services. Some of the examples of ISP are Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Airtel, Reliance, Vodafone, etc.
There are two different ways of getting the internet connection from these ISPs:
• Wired
• Wireless
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