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COMMONLY USED INTERNET TERMS The home page will open as shown:
There are some basic terms that are associated with the Internet. These are:
Web Page: It is a digital document on Life Skills & Values
the Internet. It contains information in “Do not share your private
the form of text, pictures, animations, information on the Internet.”
videos, etc. - Mr Techie
Websites: It is a collection of related
webpages 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.
Web Browser: It is a software that helps to view a website on a computer, mobile
or tab. Computers running the Windows 7 operating system come with Internet
Explorer as their default web browser. Tick ( ) if you know this.
URL: It stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It is the address of a website, such ▶ World Wide Web is a virtual storehouse of information.
as www.google.com, www.rediffmail.com, etc. ▶ URLs are the key to navigate the Web.
Search Engine: A search engine is a program that searches through the collection
of web pages and helps us locate the website or information that we are looking
for. Google is the most popular search engine. Some other examples are Bing USING A SEARCH ENGINE
and Yahoo. Sometimes, we look for information on a certain topic online, without knowing the
correct URL of the related website. In such cases, we can easily get access to the
information through search engines.
Fill in the blanks.
uiz Bee 1. _____________ is a device that enables a computer to To search any information, enter the relevant keywords in the search box and press
transmit data over a network. the Enter key. A new page will open, displaying all the websites containing that
2. ISP stands for _____________ . keyword.
USING URLs
URLs are the keys to navigate the web. To open a website, type the URL in the
browser’s address bar that appears at the top of the browser window and then,
press the Enter key.
Suppose, you want to visit the website of Touchpad. To do this, you can type
http://www.orangeeducation.com in the address bar and press the Enter key.
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