2. Agenda
Origin Of Internet
Internetworking
Internet Addresses
IP Addresses and Data Packets
Connections
Bandwidth bottleneck
Internet Services
MIME Type
The World Wide Web and HTML
Multimedia on the web
Tools for the World Wide Web
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3. Origin Of Internet
The Internet was created by the Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S.
Defense Department, when the first node of the
ARPANET was installed at the University of
California at Los Angeles in September 1969.
By the mid-1970s, the ARPANET “inter-network”
embraced more than 30 universities, military sites,
and government contractors, and its user base
expanded to include the larger computer science
research community
Commercial use of the Internet began in 1992
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4. Internetworking
A computer network is a set of different computers
connected together using networking devices such
as switches and hubs. To enable communication,
each individual network node or segment is
configured with similar protocol or communication
logic, which usually is TCP/IP. When a network
communicates with another network having the
same or compatible communication procedures, it is
known as Internetworking
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6. Internet Addresses
An Internet address is a series of unique numbers
that identifies a computer connected to the Internet.
Every computer that gets online has an Internet
address
Also known as IP and URL
Alternate Spellings: internet address
Examples: "This website's Internet address is
168.119.955.2”
There are two major types of addresses on the
Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the
other is a Web site address, which is known as a
URL
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7. IP Addresses And Data Packets
When a stream of data is sent over the Internet by
your computer, it is first broken down into packets by
the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). Each
packet includes the address of the receiving
computer, a sequence number (“this is packet #5”),
error correction information, and a small piece of
your data. After a packet is created by TCP, the
Internet Protocol (IP) then takes over and actually
sends the packet to its destination along a route that
may include many other computers acting as
forwarders. TCP/IP is two important Internet
protocols working in concert
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8. Connections
To connect to the Internet, a computer or network
needs
A data connection to a server
Wireless or land line
Usually need an account with the server
TCP/IP software
Internet software includes e-mail programs, Web
browsers, FTP software etc
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9. Bandwidth bottleneck
Bandwidth is a measure of how much data,
expressed in bit per second (bps), you can send
from one computer to another in a given amount of
time
Users with slow connections will have a difficult time
using multimedia over the Internet
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11. Bandwidth bottleneck
To accommodate low-bandwidth users
Compress data when possible
Take advantage of the browser’s cache
Design for download efficiency
don’t use greater color depth than what is
absolutely necessary or leave extra space
around the edges
Design alternate sites for low- and high-bandwidth
users
Consider using streaming technology
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12. Internet Services
The Internet means the World Wide Web. But the
Web is only the latest and most popular of services
available today on the Internet. E-mail; file transfer;
discussion groups and newsgroups; real-time
chatting by text, voice, and video; and the ability to
log into remote computers are common as well
In the case of the Internet, daemons support
protocols such as
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for the World
Wide Web
Post Office Protocol (POP) for e-mail
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for exchanging files
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)—for example,
http://www .timestream.com/index.html
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13. MIME Type
MIME stands for Multi-purpose Internet Mail
Extensions. MIME types form a standard way of
classifying file types on the Internet. Internet
programs such as Web servers and browsers all
have a list of MIME types, so that they can transfer
files of the same type in the same way, no matter
what operating system they are working in
A MIME type has two parts: a type and a subtype.
They are separated by a slash (/). For example, the
MIME type for Microsoft Word files is application
and the subtype is msword. Together, the complete
MIME type is application/msword
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15. The World Wide Web and HTML
The World Wide Web started in 1989 at the European
Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) as a “distributed
collaborative hypermedia information system”
This new Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) provided
rules for a simple transaction between two computers on
the Internet consisting of
(1)establishing a connection
(2) requesting that a document be sent
(3)sending the document
(4) closing the connection
It also required a simple document format called
Hypertext
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16. Multimedia On The Web
Everyone wants a web site that is as active and
dynamic as television or a CD-ROM program that
plays in your computer. Buttons should visually and
audibly click; visitors should be greeted with music;
dazzling images should appear and disappear on the
screen
There are four major ways of adding animation to a
web page: server push, Shockwave, Java and GIF
animation
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17. Tools for the World Wide Web
Web Server
The functioning of the Web involves communication
between a server computer and a client computer
A Web server is a computer that delivers a file when
a
client computer sends a request
Web servers vary in strength and capacity for a
variety of
platforms meeting the HTTP requirements
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18. Web Browsers
Web browsers are applications that run on the client
side
(user’s PC) on the Internet
They provide an interactive graphical interface
This interface is used for searching, finding, and
viewing
text documents, sounds, and multimedia resources
on the
Web
Web browsers differ in features, performance, and
cost
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19. Search Engines
Search engines are programs that search
documents for specified keywords and returns a list
of the documents where the keywords were found.
A search engine is really a general class of
programs, however, the term is often used to
specifically describe systems like Google, Bing and
Yahoo! Search that enable users to search for
documents on the World Wide Web
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20. Web Page Makers and Site Builders
To deliver multimedia on the Web, you should know
some
HTML
HTML documents are simple ASCII text files without
any
formatting
Professional web page developers often use word
processor to edit their pages
HTML editors and web page-making applications
offer to
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HTML translators export a word-processed
document with its text styles and layout converted
into HTML tags
Many HTML editors and Web page-making
applications offer to shortcut HTML learning curves
and working effort
Dedicated editors are usually WYSIWYG (What You
See Is What You Get) word processors
Microsoft FrontPage provides WYSIWYG support for
many of the latest HTML formatting extensions
It also provides extensive Web site management
support through its FrontPage extensions
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22. Plug-ins And Delivery
Plug-ins allow end users to view and interact with
new
types of documents and images
Helper applications (or players) display or run files
downloaded from the Internet
Common media types such as text, image, sound,
animation, and video use plug-ins to help them
display the
additional content on the Web
Text
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23. Plug-ins And Delivery
Images
Most browsers read only bitmapped JPEG, GIF,
and
PNG image files
Plug-ins that enable the viewing of vector formats
(such as Flash) are useful
Vector graphics are device-independent. An
image is
displayed at the correct size and with colors
supported
by the computer
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24. Plug-ins And Delivery
Sound
Digitized sound files in MP3, WAV, AIF, or AU
formats
may be sent and played on a user’s computer
from
Internet
MIDI sound files are more compact, but they
depend
upon the computer’s MIDI setup for quality
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Animation and Video
The most data-intense multimedia elements are
video
streams containing images and synchronized
sound
Video streams are commonly packaged as
Apple’s
QuickTime, Microsoft’s Video for Windows (AVI),
and
as MPEG files
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began as a research network funded
By 1983, the network still consisted of merely several hundred computers on only a few local area networks.
The most notable example of internetworking is the Internet, a network of networks based on many underlying hardware technologies, but unified by an internetworking protocol standard, the Internet Protocol Suite, often also referred to as TCP/IP.
An Internet address can also be defined as the name, or unique address on the Web, of every Web site. An Internet address is the same thing as a URL, or Uniform Resource Locator.
It was designed by Tim Berners-Lee as a
protocol for linking a multiplicity of documents located on computers
anywhere within the Internet.