Due Date: July 20, 2013

AILEEN H. BANAGUAS Ph.D StudentCavite State University, Indang, CaviteEMGT 340 – MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMDR. MAYLIN M. ESCOBAR

LEARNING ACTIVITY 2

THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TOOL (THE INTERNET) AND THEWORLD WIDE WEB

The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure.

It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which

any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are

both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so

via a variety of languages known as protocols. The World Wide Web is a way of

accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-

sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP

protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data.

Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to

exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also

utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents

called Web pages

A website, also written as Web,  is a set of related web pages served from

a single web domain .It is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a

network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet

address known as a Uniform Resource Locator. Markup Language

(HTML, XHTML). A webpage may incorporate elements from other websites with

suitable markup anchors. The pages of a website can usually be accessed from

a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the web address. The URLs of

the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyperlinking between them

conveys the reader's perceived site structure and guides the reader's navigation

of the site which generally includes a home page with most of the links to the

site's web content, and a supplementary about contact and link page.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website)

In the web address, http://www.cnn.com, has a number of different parts.

The http:// stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. This helps the web browser

locate the web page or web site, and to display it for us to see. Most browsers

will automatically add this prefix, so you don't have to worry about typing it every

time. The www stands for World Wide Web. This means that the page you're

looking for is somewhere on the World Wide Web. The next section, which is cnn

in this example, is the name of the server or web site. It is flanked by dots, which

separate it from other sections of the web address. The .com here is the domain.

This tells you where the web page is registered, and often tells you what kind of

web site it is. For instance, .com usually means that you're looking at a

commercial site, or a site that someone has paid to use. Some other common

domain names are .edu (sites for educational institutions), .org (sites belonging

to organizations), and .gov (sites sponsored by local, state, or federal

governments). Sometimes, there will be a slash (/) following the domain name.

Internet is a huge repository of information on almost every topic  based

on imaginable. People all over the world can hire the net for information, include

new trendy information and exchange views on diverse topics. The Internet is an

electronic web that joints people and businesses that have access to networks

and allows them to dispatch and retrieve E-mail (Electronic Mail) and to

participate in a number of other diverse functions, around the clock. When we

say technology we don't just mean the software and hardware, but also the

human components which are an integral part of the overall system of the

Internet.

An Internet Service Provider is the company that takes care of the

technical aspects of connecting your computer(s) to the internet. Enabling your

computer to access the world wide web, email, newsgroups and other Internet

resources. Choosing an internet service provider (ISP) can sometimes be an

overwhelming decision. make a decision about an ISP, it is worth spending some

time to think about the arrangements that best suit you. These days there are

plenty of sources of information available in the market to help consumers make

an informed choice before they select a product—some examples and hints on

what to look for are listed below. Some key factors to consider when choosing

an ISP include: price and billing, performance, help and installation,

communication and security of service. It is unlikely that any single ISP will be

the most efficient at all of these key features of providing an internet service.

Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and

exchange files and messages in text, audio and/or video formats between

different computers or users. This includes terminal, emulators, file

transfer programs, chat and instant messaging programs. Telecommunications

equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) is hardware

used for the purposes of telecommunications. Or telecommunications

equipments. telecommunications encompasses any communication over a

distance, be it via telephone, television, radio, wireless network, computer

network, telemetry, or other means-but traditionally, the term referred to

telephone service.

Web 2.0 describes web sites that use technology beyond the static pages

of earlier web sites. The site may allow users to interact and collaborate with

each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in

a virtual community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the

passive viewing of content.. Social networking sites,

blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video sharing sites, hosted services and web

applications are examples of Web 2.0

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