KRIZ ANTHONY ZUNIEGA BSIT 1F JUNE 26, 2012

1. What is Internet. Describe it.

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often
called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that
consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are
linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an exten sive range
of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and
the infrastructure to support email.

Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are reshaped or redefined by the
Internet, giving birth to new services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV).
Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web site technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web
feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet
forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders.
Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.

The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in
collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The
funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other
commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger
of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization
and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2011, more than 2.2 billion people nearly a third
of Earth's population use the services of the Internet.

The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each
constituent network sets its own standards. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the
Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the
core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of
loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.

2. What is World Wide Web?

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,] commonly known as the Web, or the "Information Superhighway"), is
a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that
may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-
Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually
become the World Wide Web. At CERN, a European research organization near Geneva situated on Swiss and French soil,
Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "... to link and access
information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and they publicly introduced the
project in December.[5]

3. What are the common uses of Internet? Give an example on each uses.

1) Email: By using internet now we can communicate in a fraction of seconds with a person who is sitting in the other part
of the world. Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of Email. We can chat for hours with our loved
ones. There are plenty messenger services and email services offering this service for free. With help of such services, it has
become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts, can explore other cultures of
different ethnicity.

2) Information: The biggest advantage that internet offering is information. The internet and the World Wide Web has
made it easy for anyone to access information and it can be of any type, as the internet is flooded with information. The
internet and the World Wide Web has made it easy for anyone to access information and it can be of any type. Any kind of
information on any topic is available on the Internet.

3) Business: World trade has seen a big boom with the help of the internet, as it has become easier for buyers and sellers to
communicate and also to advertise their sites. Now a day's most of the people are using online classified sites to buy or sel l
or advertising their products or services. Classified sites save a lot of money and time so this is chosen as medium by most
of people to advertise their products. We have many classified sites on the web like craigslist, Adsglobe.com, Kijiji etc.

4) Social Networking: Today social networking sites have become an important part of the online community. Almost all
users are members use it for personal and business purposes. It's an awesome place to network with many entrepreneurs
who come here to begin building their own personal and business brand.

5) Shopping: In today's busy life most of us are interested to shop online. Now a day's almost anything can be bought with
the use of the internet. In countries like US most of consumers prefer to shop from home. We have many shopping sites on
internet like amazon.com, Dealsglobe.com etc. People also use the internet to auction goods. There are many auction sites
online, where anything can be sold.

6) Entertainment: On internet we can find all forms of entertainment from watching films to playing games online. Almost
anyone can find the right kind of entertainment for themselves. When people surf the Web, there are numerous things that
can be found. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found and shared on the Internet. There are numerous games that
may be downloaded from the Internet for free.

7) E-Commerce: Ecommerce is the concept used for any type of commercial maneuvering, or business deals that involves
the transfer of information across the globe via internet. It has become a phenomenon associated with any kind of
shopping, almost anything. It has got a real amazing and range of products from household needs, technology to
entertainment.

8) Services: Many services are now provided on the internet such as online banking, job seeking, purchasing tickets for your
favorite movies, and guidance services on array of topics in the every aspect of life, and hotel reservations and bills paying.
Often these services are not available off-line and can cost you more.

9) Job Search: Internet makes life easy for both employers and job seekers as there are plenty of job sites which connects
employers and job seekers.

10) Dating/Personals: People are connecting with others though internet and finding their life partners. Internet not only
helps to find the right person but also to continue the relationship.

4. What are the different types of Website?

Static websites

A static website is the simplest form of website, in which the sites content is delivered without the use of server side
processing. Static websites are used principally for brochure sites and can include complex graphics, animations and
JavaScript driven features.

The main limitation of static websites is that they cannot provide complex user interactivity because they cannot either
gather information from the user or serve content which is dependent on user actions. Large static sites are also time
consuming to develop and more difficult to update because changes need to be implemented individually on each page of
the site. However, if a business does not require a large website or advanced interactivity, a static site which is developed
using XHTML and CSS will provide clean, compact coding and good search engine performance.

Dynamic websites

Dynamic websites rely on server side scripting to provided advanced interactivity and usually use a database to del iver the
content for individual pages. A dynamic approach is appropriate for developing large websites with content which is
formulaic, for example, catalogues, photograph albums and complex series of data. A dynamic website will be required to
allow users to sort and search records, or to restrict access to parts of the website using a log-in procedure.

Generating website pages on the fly, using a database to store and deliver content, is an efficient way of managing a large
site, with maintenance and updating generally much easier than for a comparable static site. The disadvantage of dynamic
websites is that Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) techniques are more difficult to implement, particularly if the sites SEO
needs are not taken into account at the development stage.

Content managed websites

A content managed website is a further refinement of the database driven dynamic site. The content management system
provides a password protected interface through which users can add, edit and remove content fro m the site. A content
management system is particularly useful in the case of large sites which have numerous contributors, some of whom may
be working from remote locations.

eCommerce websites

An eCommerce website is a dynamic website which has the functionality to process financial transactions. Most eCommerce
websites are built to mimic a bricks and mortar store and use the model of stock pages, shopping basket system and
checkout, using a secure online payment system. Many eCommerce sites also include a content management system, so
that product details can be added or updated, and some include advanced features such as automated stock control.

Flash websites

Flash is proprietary software developed by Macromedia which is used to generate complex animations. The programme is
sophisticated enough for entire websites to be constructed using Flash technology. Flash websites can be visually stunning
and provide otherwise unachievable levels of user interactivity. However, it is almost impossible to carry out any meaningful
form of SEO on a Flash site and so it should, generally, be avoided.