CHAPTER 5 TELECOMMUNICATION (INTERNET, WORLD WIDE WEB & RESOURCE SHARING)
This chapter is about how a computer communicate with other computers. The World Wide Web (www) is a collection of document, image, video and sound files that can be linked and accessed over the Internet using a protocol called HTTP. HTTP Cookie is a small chunk of data generated by web server and stored in a text file on your computer’s hard disk. HTML is a set of specifications for creating documents that a browser can display as a web page. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters that points to a specific piece of information anywhere on this web. URL consist of the protocol (http, https, ftp), domain name or web server, the directory on the server and file within the directory. Two popular type of web search tools are search engine and subject directory. A search engine is helpful in locating items such as images, videos, audio, news, maps, people or businesses and blogs. Multimedia refers to any application that combines text with graphics, animation, audio, video and virtual reality. E-commerce is a business transaction that occurs over a network. Other than that, Instant Messaging (IM) is a real-time Internet communications service. VoIP is refer to Voice over IP which enables users to speak to other users over the Internet.
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