Address Mask The address mask is used to identify the parts of an IP address that correspond to the different sections (separated by dots). It’s also known as the “subnet mask” since the network portion of and address can be determined by the encoding inherent in an IP address.     Advanced Research Projects Agency […]

AN INTRODUCTION             Electronic commerce or ‘eCommerce’ is the use of the internet for a range of business purposes, including: marketing and publicity online sales via the web communication business to business transactions MARKETING AND PUBLICITY             The web is an ideal media for marketing and publicity because of it’s potential to reach a […]

WHAT IS INTERNET SECURITY?                  A list of the major challenges of Internet security and simple explanations of how they affect a network are explained below.   Protection from hackers and vandals on the internet.               Hacker attacks can cause irreparable damage to sensitive and confidential information. Critical data resides on a company’s private […]

MULTIMEDIA             Multimedia is the ability to communicate in more than one way. For example the computer you are using to view this material is capable of flashing text and beeping when there is a problem. If your computer is equipped with multimedia capabilities then it can handle sound, video, and graphics in a […]

WHAT IS ASP?               Active Server Page or ASP, as it is more commonly known, is a technology that enables you to make dynamic and interactive Web pages. ASP uses server-side scripting to dynamically produce web pages that are not affected by the type of browser the web site visitor is using.             The […]

The Web depends on Web page authors and vendors sharing the same conventions for HTML. This has motivated joint work on specifications for HTML. HTML was originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, and popularized by the Mosaic browser developed at NCSA. HTML 2.0 was developed under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task […]

WHAT IS WEB PUBLISHING?             At its most basic level, web publishing consists of making various computer files available to Internet users through the World Wide Web. These files may be of several types:             Plain text (.txt)             Hypertext (.html)             Multimedia             Graphics (.gif or .jpg)             Audio (.wav .au .mid)             Video […]

WHAT IS USENET?             A Usenet is an enormous bulletin board type of messaging system. People can exchange messages that are available to anyone who wants to read them on the Usenet. The messages are divided into groups according to subject. The groups are most often called newsgroups, discussion groups, or forums. The messages […]

WHAT IS TELNET?               Telnet, which stands for Telecommunications Network, is a protocol that provides a way for clients to connect to servers on the Internet. Users can use Telnet to communicate with a remote login service. THE TELNET PROTOCOL               The Telnet protocol provides a facility for remote logins to a computer […]

WHAT IS FTP               File Transfer Protocol is the expanded form of FTP. It is the simplest way to upload and download files over the network, When downloading a file you are transferring the file to your computer from another computer over the Internet. You can use FTP to exchange files between computer accounts, […]