The Internet & the World Wide Web

UCI 201: The Internet & the
World Wide Web

Lecture 1
Topic 1: Introduction to the Internet

, Lecture Overview
• Basics of Internet and the World Wide Web
(WWW);
• Browsing and searching techniques;
• The internet as a research tool;
• Search engines;
• Web design, hosting and development;
• Intranet concept: evolution, benefits and
challenges.

, Lecture Overview
• Design and structures of typical web browsers:
-Firefox and Internet Explorer,
-Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Hypertext,
-hyperlinks and hypermedia,
-URL,
-its registration,
-browsers,
-search engines,
-proxy servers.

, Lecture Overview
• Internet Applications:
-E-mail, Telnet, FTP, IRC, NNTP,
-Video conferencing
• Digital communities;
• Introduction to Hypertext Mark-up Language
(HTML);