INTERODUCTION TO E-MAIL                    Electronic-mail or E-mail is the process of sending messages anywhere electronically using the computer and a modem. Email can be sent and received according to the convenience of the user. Any number of Emails can be sent at a time to any number of designated locations. E-mail is delivered almost […]

WHAT IS A WEB BROWSER?                        A web browser is a program that you can use to view files on the Internet, in including images, text, sound and video   HISTORY                      The first graphical Web browser, a program that lets Internet users page through the Web, was “Mosaic”. This program was developed in […]

WHAT IS GOPHER?                      Gopher is a communications method or protocol for retrieving text and file-based information from the Internet. Designed at the University of Minnesota, gopher quickly became an Internet standard. When gopher was first developed, the programs that used this method for accessing Internet information were also called Gopher. Today, programs that use […]

WHAT ARE PROTOCOLS?   A protocol is a standard format for transmitting data between two devices.   The protocol determines the following:   The type of error checking to be used Data  compression method, if any The method by which the sending device will indicate that the transmission is complete   A protocol describes the […]

WHAT IS INTERNET?                       The Internet is a computer network made up of thousands of networks worldwide. No one knows exactly how many computers are connected to the Internet, however, that these number in the millions.   No one is in charge of the Internet. There are organizations which develop technical aspects of this […]

INTRODUCTION   Data Communications is the transfer of data or information between a source and a receiver. The source transmits the data and the receiver receives it. The actual generation of the information is not part of data communications nor is the resulting action of the information at the receiver. Data Communication is interested in […]

THE CONCEPT OF NETWORKING   The idea of networking is probably as old as telecommunications itself. Nowadays, we have computer talking to each other over vast assemblages of wires, fiber optics, microwaves etc. in this lesson we would be dealing with the means and ways by which the process of communication is accomplished through computers. […]

The World Wide Web is a great way for people to communicate with each other. While you have conversations with other people over Internet newsgroups, you can also publish your own personal Web site – a collection of one or more pages on which you can share all sorts of information. This book will introduce […]

Domain name – the things that look something like your-domain-name.com – are an essential part of having a website. They represent the “web address” of your website.   You will need your own domain name if you intend to create a website. You will also need to register a domain name if you intend to […]

Javascript   If you’re new to programming/scripting, JavaScript is a good place to start. Having said that, it’s still quite different to HTML so I recommend you take your take your time and cover off a little bit each day. Don’t worry if it tales you several days to complete – it’s better to fully […]