Internet Email

Ms. Manori Yapa Instructor (Computer Technology) Technical College - Ratmalana

Image of the Internet

History in brief
Internet was born in the late 1969s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) or the US Department of Defense linked together mainframe computers to form a communications network. Create a communication system that could survive a nuclear attack or natural disaster Provide communication links to its users in remote locations Early version of the internet was known as ARPANet.

Who controls the Internet?

No one it is a public, cooperative, and independent network Several organizations set standards
c c

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Oversees research, sets standards and guidelines Mission is to contribute to the growth of the Web Nearly 400 organizations around the world are members of the W3C
The World Wide Web (WWW) began as a project at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where Tim Berners-Lee developed a vision of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee - the inventor of the World Wide Web is now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Requirements for Internet

Computer with network compatibility Web browser An account with ISP (Internet Service Provider) A telephone line A modem connect to computer & the telephone line Internet
Dongle

Internet Services
E-Mail File transfers (FTP) Instant messaging (IM) Newsgroups (Online, Bulleting Board discussion forums) Chat Rooms Streaming audio and video- creating and sending audio, video files(news, sports, education, business) Internet telephony - Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Use your computer like a telephone Software connects computers via the Internet and transmits voice data Ex: Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Google talk World Wide Web (WWW)

WWW
The World Wide Web is comprised of millions of different web sites, all of which are identified by a unique address, called a URL and it presents text, images, animation, video, sound and other multimedia in a single interface. Created by Tim Berners Lee, a researcher for CERN, in 1989

Chat Rooms

Internet Telephony

Video Streaming

Audio Streaming

Video Conferencing

E-Newspapers

E-Channelling

Online Games

Online Shopping

What is Protocols?
Is an agreed upon format for transmitting data between two or more devices A set of formal rules for transmitting data

Ex:
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), a set of standards for transmitting and receiving digital data

FTP (File Transfer Protocol), used to transfer file over the Internet
HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), the primary

technology protocol on the Web that allows linking and browsing. (http://www.google.com)

HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure), makes transferring of confidential information more secure.

Contd
3. Wireless(WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, Infrared)
connections allow to be more mobile. some public buildings provide wireless access. Ex: universities, Schools, airports, coffee shops, hotels and libraries.

Advantages & Disadvantages of Internet

Advantages
Can search any kind of information on any topic under the sun is available on the Internet. Faster communication Email Entertainment Listen to music Watch TV Download games, software, films & songs Read newspapers Chartrooms Services online banking job seeking purchasing tickets for your favorite movies, hotel /air tickets reservations E-channeling Buy & sell goods & services

Disadvantages
Theft of Personal information Spamming - sending
unwanted e-mails in bulk

Virus threat Pornography - There are

thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet that can be easily found and can be a detrimental factor to letting children use the Internet

Web Browser
A software application used to locate and display Web pages. These are graphical

browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text. In addition,
most modern browsers can present multimedia information, including sound and video, though they require plug-ins for some formats.

Ex: Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Netscape Navigator Thunderbird Opera Safari

Add Bookmarks/Favorites
If you find a site and you liked it so much & you wanted to keep going back? You can bookmark it, which means that you save it, so next time all you have to do is choose it from a menu. Steps: 1. Find a Web page you want to save 2. Open the Bookmarks menu 3. Click Bookmark this page in Firefox or Add to Favorites in Internet Explorer.

Set Homepage in web browser

The main page, loaded to the web browser called home page. Typically, the home page serves as an index or table of contents to other documents stored at the site. We can change this home page to other web site we like. Steps: Open Web Browser Click the Tools menu and Options Under General and Home Page, type the URL of the web page you want to be your home page. (ex.www.google.com) Click Ok. The next time you open your browser it should open the page you entered.

History Settings
As you browse the web, Firefox helpfully remembers lots of information for you sites you've visited, files you've downloaded and more. All of this information is called your history. However, if you are using a public computer or share a computer with someone, you may not want others to be able to see these kinds of things. Step : At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the History menu and select Clear Recent History

Plugins / Add-ons
In computing, a plug-in (sometime called add-ons) is a set of software components that adds specific abilities to a larger software application. If supported, plug-ins enable customizing the functionality of an application. For example, plug-ins are commonly used in web browsers to play video, scan for viruses, and display new file types. Examples for plugins:
Adobe Flash Player QuickTime Java Applets Adobe Reader Media Players

URL
Each web page has a unique address, called a Uniform Resource Locator is the exact address for a particular Web page. The parts of the URL can give you clues about where a page is located and what type of company or person owns it.

Ex: http://www.srizone.net/ music/audio/index.php

Protocol Name : HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) Host Computer/web server Name : WWW Domain Name : srizone Domain Type : net Path : music/audio/ File Name : index.php

Common Top-Level Domain Types

The suffix of a Web site that identifies the type of content the Web site contains or what kind of organization the site is associated.

.com Commercial and for profit organizations or network providers .net service providers .gov government agencies .edu Colleges/Universities or educational institutions .mil US military organizations .org Nonprofit organizations

.lk Sri Lanka .in India .au Australia .uk united kindom

Search Engines
Program used to find Web sites and Web pages by entering words or phrases called text/keyword. We can use logical operators such as, AND/OR/NOT to search information. According to the keyword, all the web links listed. Ex:

www.google.com www.yahoo.com www.msn.com www.bing.com www.hotbot.com www.ask.com www.sasrutha.com

Related words used in Internet

Web Site A web site is a set of related web pages like textbook, published by an organization or individual. Normally a web site contains a home page along with other additional web pages. Web Page The World Wide Web consists of file, called pages or web pages, which contains information and links to resources throughout the Internet. Web page is an electronic document written in a computer language called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).

Home page - The first page that a Web site displays . Often provides connections to other Web pages. Ex: www.amazon.com

Hyperlink - Connection to a next Page or Forward Backward Buttons

Downloading - The process of a computer receiving information from remote computer to our computer. Depending upon connection speed, downloading can take from a few seconds to several minutes
Uploading - vise versa

Contd
E-Commerce - Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. E-Business - eBusiness (e-Business), or Electronic Business, is the administration of conducting business via the Internet. This would include the buying and selling of goods and services, along with providing technical or customer support through the Internet. E-Education - Students can follow courses through online without participate to the classrooms. All the registrations, lectures are handling through online and also students can download all the course materials from the Internet. Exams are also in online.

E-Signature - A signature is a stylized script associated with a person. It is comparable to a seal. An electronic signature is any legally recognized electronic means that indicates that a person adopts the contents of an electronic message. It may be an electronic transmission of the document which contains the signature, as in the case of facsimile transmissions.

 E-Learning - elearning is content and instructional methods delivered on a computer (CD ROM, Internet or Intranet ) and designed to build knowledge and skills related to an individual or an organizational goal. E-Book- An electronic version of a book
E-Voting any person can vote for their political parties or any other relevant things electronically

 E-Government
A generic term that refers to any government functions or processes that are carried out in digital form over the Internet. Local, state and federal governments essentially set up central Web sites from which the public (both private citizens and businesses) can find public information, download government forms and contact government representatives.

What is Firewall?
A firewall is a device, or a piece of software that is placed between your computer and the rest of the network. If you wish to protect your whole LAN from hackers out on the Internet, you would place a firewall between the LAN and the Internet connection. A firewall blocks unauthorized connections being made to your computer or LAN. Normal data is allowed through the firewall (e.g. emails or web pages) but all other data is blocked.

What is Email
A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network, as between personal computers. Common Email Providers
Gmail mail.google.com (www.google.com Yahoo mail.yahoo.com (www.yahoo.com) MSN Hotmail mail.live.com (www.hotmail.com)

What is Email Used For?

Email is used to communicate with family and friends in the same way letters are sent in the mail. Email is used by many websites to communicate with users after creating an account (eBay, Amazon, MySpace etc.) Email is used to have a readily available place to store documents (email yourself with your document attached instead of saving it to a disk)

Creating an Email account Step 2: Sign up for your email address

Go to the website www.gmail.com and complete each section.
This part is called a captcha the distorted words are used to test that you are a human completing the form rather than a computer (cuts down on scams).

5/30/2013

38

The anatomy of an email address hotelsrilanka@gmail.com

Username

at

Domain name/

Email provider with dot com Remember, when you are writing down your email address you need to include all three parts! When you are sending an email you need to have all three parts.

5/30/2013

39

Parts of the Email

To To whom the mail is to be sent Cc Carbon Copy is used to send same message to several recipients Bcc Blind carbon copy is used to send same message to several recipients without showing everyone all the address. Subject Denotes the subject of the message

Attachments link used send file such as word, excel, etc. files sounds, pictures, video clips, etc..

Advantages of Email

Easy to use: E-mail frees us from the tedious task of managing data of daily use. It helps us to manage our contacts, send mails quickly, maintain our mail history, store the required information, etc. Speed: The e-mail is delivered instantly, anywhere across the globe. No other service matches the e-mail in terms of speed. Easy to prioritize: Since the mails have subject lines, it is easy to prioritize them and ignore unwanted mails. Reliable and secure: Constant efforts are being taken to improve the security in electronic mails. Thus making it one of the secured ways of communication. Informal and conversational: The language used in e-mails is generally simple and thus makes the communication informal. Sending and receiving e-mails takes less time, so it can be used as a tool for interaction. Easier for reference: When one needs to reply to a mail, there is a provision in the mailing system to attach the previous mails as references. This refreshes the recipient's knowledge, on what he is reading. Automated e-mails: It is possible to send automated e-mails using special programs like the auto responders. The auto responders reply back to the sender with generalized pre-written text messages. Environment friendly: Postal mails use paper as a medium to send letters. Electronic mail thus, saves a lot of trees from being axed. It also saves fuel needed in transportation. Use of graphics: Colorful greeting cards and interesting pictures can be sent through e-mails. This adds value to the e-mail service. Advertising tool: Many individuals and companies are using e-mails to advertise their products, services, etc.

Disadvantages of Email

Viruses: These are computer programs which have the potential to harm a computer system. These programs copy themselves and further infect the computer. The recipient needs to scan the mails since, viruses are transmitted through them and have the potential to harm computer systems. Spam: E-mails when used to send unsolicited messages and unwanted advertisements create nuisance and are termed as Spam. Checking and deleting these unwanted mails can unnecessarily consume a lot of time. Hacking: The act of breaking into computer security is termed as hacking. An e-mail before being delivered to the recipient, "bounces" between servers located in different parts of the world; hence, it can be hacked by a professional hacker. Misinterpretation: One has to be careful while posting content through an e-mail. If typed in a hurry, the matter could be misinterpreted. Lengthy mails: If the mail is too long and not properly presented, the reader may lose interest in reading it. Not suitable for business: Since the content posted via e-mails is considered informal, there is a chance of business documents going unnoticed. Thus, urgent transactions and especially those requiring signatures are not managed through e-mails. Crowded inbox: Over a period of time, the e-mail inbox may get crowded with mails. It becomes difficult for users to manage such a huge chunk of mails. Need to check the inbox regularly: In order to stay updated, one has to check his e-mail account regularly.

Different Between Email & Snail Mail

Email Quick and speed Can send in 24x7x365 Low cost Snail Mail Takes many days to receive the mail Only can send in office time in 5 working days High cost, have to spent money for stamps, envelops & papers Waste paper

Environment friendly