Internet and the World Wide Web

Chapter two talks about communication, networks, the internet, and the world wide web. Communication in technology terms describes the process which two or more computers or devices transfer data, instructions, and information. Networks are a collection of computers and other equipment organized to shard data, information, hardware, and software. The book goes into detail about three types of networks. The internet is a worldwide collection of networks that link together millions of businesses, governments, educational institutions, and individuals using modems, telephone lines, and other communications devices and media. The book tells us the internet comes from a networking project of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). When connected to the internet a domain name, or text version of a computer address, is needed. The last area the chapter talks about is, is the world wide web which consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents that have built-in hyperlinks to other related documents. On the web there are many ways to search for information. Firstly search tools enable users to locate information found at Web sites all over the world. Search engines are a specific type of search tool that finds Web sites, Web pages, and Internet files that match one or more keywords that are entered. The internet also offers things like e-mail or electronic mail, FTP or file transfer protocol, newsgroups, message boards , and blogs, chatrooms, instant messaging, facebooks and podcasts.
Since my last post I have become better at searcher for things online. After the webhunt assignment I have really learned how to become specific in the words that I use to find what I need. I have used this to find journal articles that I need to write papers. This is very useful to me for my future career since I will be doing research and in doing research I will need to look up journal articles for background information and helpful tips on how I should go about doing my experiments.