ICT

AWARENESS
PROGRAMME 10

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Contents
Definition & History
Internet connection
Basic services of Internet
WWW browsers
Internet search engines
Uses of Internet

What is internet?
The Internet is a network of
computers, which links many different
types of computers all over the world.

History of Internet

ARPANET was the first WAN and

had only four sites in 1969.
In 1989, the U.S. government
lifted restrictions on the use of
Internet, and allow its usage for
commercial purposes as well.

How to Connect the Internet

to computer
Using acomputermodem is the most widely
available method of connecting to the Internet.

Phone line
ISP
Computer
Software

Basic Services Of The

Electronic
Mail
(E-Mail)
Internet

Using IM (instant Massaging)

software
Allow user to send a mail
(message) to another internet
user in any part of the world in
a near-real-time manner.

 File Transfer Protocol

(FTP)
Allow user to move a file from
one computer to another on
the internet.

 Social networking

Socialize & meet with new friends. Social

networking has been making a great impact
on our life.

Electronic Mail

IM( Instant Massaging

software)

File Transfer Protocol

Download

Inte
rnet

Upload

Social Networking

WWW Browsers

To use a computer as a Web client, a

user needs to load on it a special
software tool known as WWW Browser.
Web browsers are programs used to
explore the Internet.

Internet Search
A search
engine is a Web
Engines
site that lets you search
the Internet for Web sites
on specific topics.

Some Popular Internet

Search Engines

1. What is internet?
i. Asinglenetwork
ii. A vast collection of different
networks
iii. Interconnection of local area
networks
iv. None of the mentioned

2. What is a browser?
i. An HTML system
ii. A server
iii. A software program that enables
you to view WWW document
iv. Web page

3. What type of
telecommunications
hardware allows you to
access the web
i. Browser
ii. Modem
iii. FTP protocol
iv. IRC

4.What was the first

network?
i. CSNET
ii. NSFNET
iii. ANSNET
iv. ARPANET

5. What does FTP stands for?

i. File Thread Partition
ii. File Transfer Protocol
iii. File Translation Protocol
iv. File Track Protocol

6. What is a search
engine?
i. A program that searches engines
ii. A web site that searches anything
iii. A hardware component
iv. A machinery engine that search
data

7. Which of these is not a

Internet browser?
i. Chrome
ii. Netscape Navigator
iii. MS Front Page
iv. Opera

8. When Tim Berners Lee

invented the WWW?
i. 1988
ii. 1987
iii. 1990
iv. 1989

Just move to the Internet, its great

here. We get to live inside where the
weather is always awesome.