Dec 17,2021 |11:02 |

By U Khin Maung (A retired diplomat)

( CONTINUATION FROM THE PREVIOUS ARTICLE … )

 

The Internet is the world’s largest computer network. It is not a piece of software or hardware. It’s a huge collection of computers, cables, and people. When people talk about the Internet, they generally aren’t thinking of the physical computers, wires, routers and other gadgets that compose the network, but of the collection of people, software, and tools that they “see” online.

 

To the technically minded, the Internet is a network of computer networks that talk to each other using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Internet Protocol (IP). TCPAP is a set of rules that define how messages can be sent between computers. A communications protocol allows different kinds of computers using different operating systems to communicate with each other. That is important because the Internet isn’t made up of any single type of computer system. Using TCP/ IP, hundreds of different types of computers are able to communicate on the internet.

 

This common set of protocols makes it possible for a user plugged into any network on the Internet to communicate with people or software based on any of the other networks connected to the Internet.

 

To most of the people who use the Internet, the Net isn’t about networks, protocols, and operating systems; it’s a community of people. A very large community, which we might even call “a global village”.

 

The Internet is a locale, a place. It is the closest thing we’ve got to “Cyberspace”, which is an electronic place where people and programs work, learn and coexist (sometimes peacefully, sometimes not.)

 

Source, “Your Internet Consultant PP. 1 & 2 - By Mr Kevin Savetz

 

Internet-related terms and their definitions

1. Within the last few years, the term “the Internet” has. slipped into everyday language, invading our newspapers, magazines and even our TV sets. Loosely defined, the Internet is an international network - or rather a network of networks - at the heart of which lies a number of powerful and permanently linked computers. To join the Internet, you connect your computer to any of these computers, and are then able to talk to, and disseminate information to, every other computer on the Internet.

Significant terms and their definitions.

 

2. In this write-up, I would like to present only a few significant Internet-related terms and their definitions as follows:

  1. WWW = World Wide Web. It is probably the largest method of information dispersal on the Internet today.
  2. Protocol = It is an agreed standard for network devices to exchange information with each other.
  3. HTTP = HyperText Transfer Protocol. It is the method by which the web page data is transmitted.
  4. ) NNTP = It stands for Network News Transfer Protocol.
  5. Website = Website means the Internet store-fronts that must stay open continuously for business. (F) Web page = It is a page in the website allocated for the Internet user or the Internet company concerned.
  6. Home Page = It is the first page of a set of pages.
  7. Download = Transfer of files/data/ from one computer system to another (for copying/ receiving)
  8. E-mail = It’s a correspondence system by which you can transmit text, pictures, sounds and other digitized material across the world in a matter of seconds.
  9. Newbie = A new user, who probably doesn’t know a lot about the Internet
  10. Users’ Network = It’s known by several different names- e.g. “usenet” “news” “newsgroups”
  11. Node = Any device that is individually identifiable 10 a network.
  12. Binaries = Binaries are not texts or files. They are pictures programmes.
  13. Netiquette = Network etiquette a cultural code of conduct, a dignified, but not universally agreed standard of behavior expected on the Internet.
  14. Hacker = A technically savvy/wise computer enthusiast who derives joy from exploring other people’s computer systems, although not necessarily with intent to damage.
  15. Upload = To send files/ data from one computer system to another.
  16. Cyberspace = It’s the electronic infrastructure of the late 20th century. Cyberspace encompasses a virtual universe of ideas and information.
  17. Software = We have two kinds of software.

(A) Freeware

(B) Shareware

  1. Freeware = Free of charge. You can download some files and information from the Internet without any payment for them.

 

 

  1. In conclusion. I would like to express my view that the “Internet” is not merely a dot.com fad that will come and go. It’s a tool of the digital revolution, a part of our daily life. It will keep ongoing. The Internet, in fact, is a great thing on which we can do so 1 any cool things.

Definitions

  1. Dispersal (N) d i s - perse (V) Disperse = Scatter, drive. go or send in different directions, send to or station at different points. (2) Transmit (Vt) = pass on, hand on, transfer, communicate

(3) Fad (N) = craze, peculiar notion.

(4) Cool (Adj) = (Slang) = very good, pleasant, excellent.

 

Sources

(1) Your Internet consultant by Mr Kevin Savetz

(2) Internet culture in easy steps by John Smith.

(3) Compuspeak (B.B.C)