The Internet!

Welcome to my website on the internet. This is my Year Nine computer Science "internet" topic assesment:

This is our class hapara workspace for our Internet topic! Here's how you make a link: 9csi internet workspace.

Here's how you can make bold and italic text.

What is the internet?

User

User- A user is a person who uses a computer or network service

Device

Device- A device connects to a computer system to add functionality

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Short for Internet Service Provider, it refers to a company that provides Internet services

Web Page

A Web page is a hypertext document connected to the World Wide Web.

World Wide Web (WWW)

The Web, or World Wide Web, is basically a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents

Modem

A modem is a device or program that enables a computer to transmit data over, for example, telephone or cable lines. Computer information is stored digitally, whereas information transmitted over telephone lines is transmitted in the form of analog waves.

Network

A network is defined as a group of two or more computer systems linked together. There are some computer networks, including the following.:

  1. local-area networks (LANs)
  2. wide-area networks (WANs)

      3. Web hosting

      What is Web hosting?- A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web

      How does web hosting work- When you pay a company to put your files on their web server, you're buying hosting. They are hosting your website on their servers.

      Web hosting link

      Our Tawa College Website http://e2learn.school.nz/#cm_submenu_11 is located in the bay of plenty- Tauranga. All the files for this website are sorted on a webhost server

      Packet

      What is a packet?- A packet is a piece of a message transmitted over a packet-switching network, In IP networks, packets are often called datagrams.

      How does a Packet work?- On the Internet, the network breaks an e-mail message into parts of a certain size in bytes. The packets carry the data in the protocols that the Internet uses. Packet link

      WAN

      What is WAN ( Wide Area Network)-A wide area network (WAN) is a geographically distributed private telecommunications network that interconnects multiple local area networks (LANs). In an enterprise, a WAN may consist of connections to a company's headquarters, branch offices, colocation facilities, cloud services and other facilities.

      How does WAN work?-A Wide Area Network (WAN), as its name indicates, is designed to enable computer users to communicate and collaborate over a wide geographic area. Today, WANs are most often used by multi-site businesses to interconnect Local Area Networks (LANs) at offices in various locations.

      WAN link

      Network

      Network

          use my gmail
          send messeges
          connect to the internet
          search files
          Research
          communicate

      Here's how to make a list:

      At Tawa College my network is made up of the following

    1. Novell client Manager, which is the entry point
    2. 2 Large servers which store my h drive files
    3. I have a unique username + password to access
    4. I need hardware to access the network,desktop computer
    5. I need ethernet (blue cable) or wifi to acess
      • First thing
      • Second thing
      • Third thing

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