Welcome to Knowledge Base 1, the basics of Internet. Here, I will be sharing my experiences with internet, will write about what is internet, where to start on internet and what you should at least know about.
While writing this Knowledge Base, it’s been almost ten years of Internet for me and the years have been great in learning and exploring new things everyday. Be it Google, the search engine (for me it was 10 years back, just a search engine) or the Facebook (the social network, today), it is great to learn and explore these two sites and stay in touch with knowledge world and with the Friends.
So, let’s start with What is Internet?
In simple terms, which everyone calls it, is Network of Networks. Not going in much technical details, its the virtual web where various networks are connected to various other networks which are also connected to various other networks and so on, forming a world wide web (www) of networks.
What I already know on Internet?
Many people are new to internet (well they think so) when they go to use Internet for the first time. But surprisingly, they already know many things about internet. Though they don’t have much idea about how things happens, but they know that we can chat, talk, send mail, search and contact people online. And this is actually the basics of internet. WoW! you already know these things happen over internet, its now time to grab how to do these things.
the toolkit (Browser, a bunch of sites, messenger (optional), Internet Connection) required.
- Internet Connection is required to connect to internet (and it is assumed you have connectivity to internet) either at home, at friends home, cafeteria, school, college, computer lab etc.
- a browser: they are many available like Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and in built browser Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows (Operating System).
- a bunch of sites which we will open – Mail Site, Chatting Site, Friend connect site, a messenger software. First of all on internet we need to create an email address.
- For browser, I use Firefox and Google Chrome
- Domain Name – a web site has a domain name. This domain name is typed in address bar in browser. A domain name is of the form somename.tld where somename can be Google and .tld can be .com (most popular tld)
- Email account – There are many sites which provide free Email service like Google, Yahoo, MSN at: gmail.com. yahoo.com and live.com respectively. One can create a free email address on these services. An email is used for sending mail from one email account to another. It is of the form [email protected] (subject to availability) i.e. [email protected]
- After an email address is created, users generally like to have a chat with their friends and family, already online. There are some sites and softwares (known as messengers) where chatting can be done. Some sites includes Gmail, Yahoo etc. and messengers includes GTalk (with friends), Yahoo Messenger (with friends and other people). Skype (with Friends and other people).
- Then there are times when we want to search our friends and relatives. There are some popular websites where we can search them. One can start with Facebook.com and Google+ to find people with their name, city, education institute, company etc.
- Along with the above basic needs and interest, we love to know the world and search for it. What ever we want to know, we can search it and get the available information. There are various search engines to help you find articles, content, websites and lot more. Some popular search engine includes Google.com and Bing.com etc.
What I should at least know on Internet?
Well, you should know what Internet is. What is email, domain name, chat, browser, internet connection, social networking and search.
Where to start on Internet?
To start on Internet and making it interesting and useful, one should start with
- Social Network
- Chatting
- and Search
Whats next on Internet?
So, that was basic about the Internet and there is lots and lots more to explore and I would be writing more out here. In the next Knowledge Base (KB-2), it would be about creating Email Address (sending and reading), Social account (creating, searching friends, contacting them,chatting (how to do it, adding friends, sending messages, sending files) and how to do basic search (advance search will be covered in later KBs).