What are the Advantages of the Internet?2 How Do You Access the Internet?3 What is Required for the Internet to Work?4 What is An Internet Address?6 What Client Applications Can be Used on the Internet?9 How Does the Internet Work?10 Summary 12 Gossary14 This paper will answer the following questions about the Internet: What Are the Advantages of the Internet? How Do You Access the Internet? What is Required For the Internet to Work? What is an Internet Address? What Client Applications Can be Used on the Internet? How Does the Internet Work? This document uses a number of terms with which you need to be familiar. They can be found in the Glossary found on page 13. We will start this section by answering this question, "What is the Internet?"What is the Internet?The Internet is a world-wide network of computers. It is an Information Superhighway that carries traffic to and from a collection of servers-- remote computers that handle requests for data and information, much like the waiter in a restaurant that takes orders for food. This collection of servers distributed all over the world and is called the World Wide Web (WWW). Servers respond to clients-- computers that request information, much like a customer in a restaurant orders food from the waiter. You click links to text, pictures, music, or video located on these servers. In addition, you can play the selected files on your local client PC, workstation, or terminal, as well as, links to related information located on these servers. Therefore, you do not have to remember where the information is located or to learn any obscure commands to access the Web. What are the Advantages of the Internet?Now that you know what theI internet is, you will learn about its advantages and how it is used toCommunicateLearnPlayCommunicateLearn PlayHow Do You Access the Internet?For computers to access the Internet, they requirea physical means of transferring informationa method for d...
