Some of
these questions require factual knowledge.
Others require you to apply that knowledge to demonstrate your
understanding. Remember attempting to answer
questions (set by yourself or others) is a good way to challenge your mind and
helps you to learn.
1.
Name
two types of computers on the Internet
2.
Explain
what is meant by Client and Server computers
3.
Name
an organization that would have server computers
3.1.1.
What
is an Internet Service Provider (ISP)?
3.1.2.
Give
examples of Internet Service Providers in Ireland
3.1.3.
What
services do they provide?
4.
Why
must each computer on the internet have an unique address?
4.1.1.
Give
examples of some internet addresses
4.1.2.
Explain
why the internet structure was advantages to the American military during the
cold war
4.1.3.
Can
you think of any situations where the internet might be more useful than a
telephone line to make contact with others
5.
What
is the World Wide Web?
6.
What is
the difference between a web page and a web site?
7.
What
is a hyperlink?
7.1.
Distinguish
between internal and external hyperlinks
7.2. How do you recognize a hyperlink on
a web site?
8.
Who
owns and pays for the Internet?
9.
Explain
how you would get connected to the Internet
10. Find out from the web site of an ISP
what services they provide and the cost of these services
Recommended
reading: Essential Computer Applications 3rd Edition Chapter
9
Suggested
searches on a search engine (e.g. www.google.com,
www.altavista.com, www.yahoo.com): internet+structure,
internet+basics, internet+introduction
History of Internet
1876 Alexander Graham Bell
invents telephone
1965 ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) commissions research into networking of
computers
1969 Four American universities
connect their computers:
Stanford---University of California (Santa Barbara)---
University of California (Los Angelus)--- University of Utah (ARPAnet).
The US
military contributed to the development of the early internet
1973 University of London---Royal
Radar Establishment of Norway
added
to ARPANET. (First connection outside
America)
1990-1991 World Wide Web concept developed at CERN particle physics
research institute in Switzerland by Tim Berners-Lee
1993 MOSAIC
Browser developed at University of Illinois.
(First graphical browser for viewing web pages)
1994 First Internet Café (Cyboria)
opened in London
1995 Internet
Explorer browser launched by Microsoft and included free with Microsoft
software on new computers. Sound added
to World Wide Web with the development of Real Audio (an audio streaming
technology) by Progressive Networks
1997 US
courts declare that legislation to control access to obscene material on the
Internet unconstitutional.
1998 Microsoft
launch Windows 98 with its Internet Explorer browser integrated into the
package. Rival companies such as
Netscape take legal action to prevent Microsoft having control over users
access to the Internet
1999 Encyclopaedia
Britannica launched on the Internet with free access. Internet 2 commenced providing a second less congested network
connecting 170 US research universities
2000 Love
Bug virus infects 45 million computers.
Over 300 million users estimated world wide.
This web site contains a brief history of the web
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Chem-History/Hist-of-Web.html
This URL consists of an account of the beginnings of the World Wide Web.