Welcome to the Indian Prairie Library’s Internet Class I
What Is the Internet? The Internet is the largest computer network in the world, connecting millions of computers. A network can also be a group of two or more computer systems linked together.
What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web is a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents.
What is the Cloud? Cloud computing is large groups of remote servers networked to allow data storage and online access to computer services or resources.
Free Hot Spot Internet Service Provider
Web Browsers
What is a URL? • URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator • A URL is the “address” for any resource connected to the web • URLs have the following format: protocol://hostname/other_information • https://ippl.info/
Home Page The home page is the initial Web page that is displayed when you open the Web browser. It can also be the main or introductory page of a Web site. http://www.ipp.info
How to Get to a Web Site Links can be text or graphics on a Web page that provide access to other Web pages. Links may or may not be a different color than other text on the page and may or may not be underlined OR Type an URL in the address box.
Search Engines • Google • Bing • Yahoo • Ask • AOL • Dogpile • DuckDuckGo: Does Not Track
Security Firefox Chrome Internet Explorer
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