Transcript The Internet

The Internet
Adult Literacy Center
Created by Andrea L. Lawrence MS.
The Internet
The Internet is a network of
computers from all over the
world.
• How does your computer join this
network?
Types of Internet Connections
There are different ways to connect to the
Internet.
Dial Up
Cable
DSL
Satellite
Wi-Fi
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web, or Web, is
the part of the internet that has
documents called web pages
• Each page is called a website. You
can find information about almost
any subject you can imagine.
Toolbar
Toolbars- Internet explorer has a special toolbar for
using the internet.
• Address Bar -On this bar you can see the address
of the website you want to visit.
• Scroll Bar- this bar lets you move to other parts of
your page you cannot see.
• Status Bar- this bar shows you where you are on
the Internet and your progress to where you are
going.
Search Engines
• Search engines use automated software programs
knows as spiders or bots to survey the Web and
build their databases. Web documents are retrieved
by these programs and analyzed. Data collected
from each web page are then added to the search
engine index. When you enter a query at a search
engine site, your input is checked against the
search engine's index of all the web pages it has
analyzed.
Search Engines.
• Lets take a look at some of our favorite
websites.
• www.Google.com
• www.yahoo.com
• www.askgeeves.com
• www.about.com