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Assalammualaikum silent readers!Now we move on with a new topic which is "Common Internet Application".If you studying but you're make a business in your college or university,this topic will help you to make your business income increase surprisely!

Common Internet Applications

Internet as Business Platform

As business platform, Internet enables us to:

• Access to information

• Access to persons, businesses, organizations

• Access to resources

E-Business

• E-business is the term to describe the information systems and applications that support and drive business processes, most often using the World Wide Web.

E-Commerce

• E-commerce is the buying and selling of products using the World Wide Web.

Benefits of e-commerce

• It is 24/7 – operates round the clock!

• Global customers and products

• Anonymous

• Hugely competitive with quality, price and delivery easy to compare

Online Shopping

• Online shopping is about purchasing products or services over the Internet.

• It has grown in popularity over the years, mainly because people find it convenient and easy to bargain shop from the comfort of their home or office.

E-banking

Internet banking (or E-banking) means any user with a personal computer and a browser can get connected to his/her bank’s website to perform any of the virtual banking functions

Common Internet Applications

Social Networking

- This is the way people in the 21st century communicates.

- Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision

Some Examples

• Example of social sites:

MySpace, FriendWise, FriendFinder, Yahoo! 360, Facebook, Orkut, Classmates,

Web 2.0 Technologies

• Web 2.0 describes an evolved type of Web interactions between people, software and data.

It support the changes from users just passively using Web content to actively creating, sharing and collaborating their own Web content

Web 1.0 vs Web 2.0

Weblogs (or Blog)

• A weblog or blog is a personal log or journal posted on the web.

---->It is generally simple to create, manage and read – so, anyone can create a blog

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Assalammulaikum silent readers...We are nearly to end of this third trimester.Its mean that,our final just in corner!I hope I can be prepare for the final exam eventhough I am quite busy with many things.So,in this post we learnt about........

The Internet as source of information medium

What can you do on the Internet?

• Find information using internet browsers and search engines

• Send and receive e-mail and subscribe to email lists

• Communicate with other people

Internet – as source of information

Main applications that support this role:-

• Browsers

• World Wide Web (WWW)

• Search Engines

• Wiki webpage

Browsers

• Examples of Browsers

– Internet Explorer

– Netscape

– Mozilla Firefox

Most Popular Search Engines?

• Google (www.google.com)

• Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)

• AltaVista (www.altavista.com)

How to find information on the Web?

• You can find information by two basic means.

• Search by Topic and Search by keywords.

Wiki??

• One of the most outstanding web-based application been developed and improved during the last decade.

• A user is capable to create a comprehensive knowledge base or an interactive website on any personal, corporate or social topic, and share it with the user's community.

The Internet as a medium of communication

Internet – as a medium of communication

Main applications that support this role:-

• E-mail

• Chat rooms (Instant Messaging – IM)

• Telnet and FTP

• Internet forums

Email

• Common, popular Email programs:

– Outlook

– Outlook Express

– Eudora

– Mac OS X Mail

– Netscape

Chat Room / Instant Messaging (IM)

• Popular chat programs

– mIRC, xChat, ICQ

– Google keywords: chat programs

• Popular Instant Messaging Programs

– AOL Instant Messenger

– Yahoo! Messenger

– MSN Messenger

– Windows Messenger

– Google keywords: instant messaging

Skype

• Skype is popular Internet Telephony application because it can provide free calls to other Skype users.

• In addition Skype has potential for use in an academic context:

– High quality sound is often experienced between broadband users.

– It can provide cheap overseas calls.

– It can be used to set up conferences calls.

– It is integrated with instant messaging.

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Assalammualaikum ! People nowadays always access their Internet.Are one of them too? If yes,Do you know the history of Internet? No? Ok lets reading my next post...

History of the Internet

Mid 1960:Papers on “Packet Switching” emerge.

End 1969s: ARPA sponsors the development of a packet-switching network, called the ARPANET. First four nodes are UCLA, SRI, U. Utah, UCSB.

1974: The TCP/IP protocols and model are being proposed by Cerf/Kahn.

The Internet : History and the Underlying Technologies

1980: IPv4 is introduced

1983: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP. At this time, the ARPANET has 200 routers.

1984 :NSF funds a TCP/IP based backbone network. This backbone grows into the NSFNET, which becomes the successor of the ARPANET.

1995:NSF stops funding of NSFNET. The Internet is completely commercial

Time Line of the Internet

Early Arpanet

• FTP

• Email

• Telnet

Internet

• It is the largest network in the world that connects hundreds of thousands of individual networks all over the world.

Applications of the Internet

• Traditional core applications:
Email
-News
-Remote Login
-File Transfer
-World-Wide Web (WWW)
-Videoconferencing
-Telephony
- P2P applications
-social network

Illustration of the Internet network