History of the Internet:
The wonderful World Wide Web that nearly everybody recognizes today started long ago, and its basis wasn't even in the public domain. In the mid-1960's, the military was researching a way to securely communicate, and thus brought about the beginnings of the ARPANET. After much development, the ARPANET became the Internet in 1995, and was open to the public. The birthplace was in Geneva, Switzerland.
Netiquette:
With the web came new ways to communicate with each other, and new opportunities for crime and other inappropriate behaviors. Most of the etiquette is focused on communication on email programs. Spam is unwarranted mail, also called junk mail, that the recipient gets without asking for and is very annoying. Flame Mail, also called hate mail is when somebody uses email to express their very distinct and hateful feelings through email, without care of who responds or who is affected. Some people also Troll on the internet. They do things that annoy or provoke other people just because they enjoy it. A commonly misunderstood communication online is using ALL CAPS. This can be misinterpreted in many ways, and is not a good method.
Different Types of Websites:
The web has opened many capabilities to the public, such as those to communicate, share, and sell things online. The internet is full of many different sites. Social Networking sites allow people to communicate in real-time, and to share pictures and status's with their friends. Shopping websites allow customers to purchase merchandise online. Video streaming websites allow video to be played on your computer. And email web sites allow formal communication online. There are many more types of websites, such as news sites, auction sites, and sites just for a specific cause or purpose. There are many different suffixes to domains, such as ".com", ".org", and ".edu" which designate the general purpose of a website.
Copyright:
A copyright is a way of protecting the manifestation of ideas. If someone has a copyright on design or product, nobody else can use that thing unless they gain explicit permission, and sometimes pay a fee for the use of it. The greatest feat in copyright history is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which changed the way works online can be protected.
Email:
Email is a brilliant design that allows people to send messages over the internet, instead of waiting for paper mail to arrive. There are many different clients that can be used, and thanks to things like the Mail transfer protocol (MTP) and others, these messages can get to anyone with an email address on any client. Email has many different tools for communication, such as a Carbon Copy function (CC), Blind Carbon Copy (BCC), and contact and groups lists, that make sending emails a very easy task.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
File transfer protocol is exactly that. A protocol used to transfer files between computers on the internet. Through these many programs, files can be stored or sent on the internet, and be ready for you whenever you need them, wherever you can log in on a computer that supports that program.
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