Chapter 2

Of all of the information gained from chapter two, I chose to talk about IP addresses. It is a term that I use and hear very often but I rarely give any thought to. IP stands for "internet protocol" It is a numeric code representing an individual computer, its purpose is to tell computers sending the information exactly where to send it. As the book put it: it is much like a house address that tells the mail service exactly where to send the physical information. Some computers have a permanent, never changing IP address, this is known as a static IP address this is generally for computers that are in constant connection with the internet. Other computers that are not constantly connected to the internet, such as computers that use a dial up connection are given a temporary IP address each time they connect to the internet. IP addresses can have user friendly codes in the form of words and titles that are easier to remember, these are called domain names. IP addresses allow the internet to be used efficiently to transfer information from computer to computer and domain names make it more user friendly.

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net neutrality

                After reading articles about net neutrality, I am not exactly sure where I stand on the issue.  Net neutrality regulations would not allow companies to slow down bandwidth in order to help their business or hurt other businesses, this is defiantly a good thing about net neutrality.  It also would not allow companies to charge people for access to their websites, this is where I’m not sure if it should be legal or not.  As an internet user I, of course, don’t want companies to charge for their websites or to have to buy a website package each month, but I don’t see any moral problem with it.  We pay for the internet service, but why shouldn’t the companies be able to charge money for using their websites, We pay companies for their television channels, why can’t a company ask for a fee before visiting their website?  I don’t think it is a very good idea, but I don’t think it should be illegal for a company to charge for the use of something that they own.  

Back and Forward buttons

Another way to make browsing easier to use specific buttons to view recently viewed web pages.  This allows one to quickly move from one page to a page one has recently left.  two popular buttons are the back and foreword buttons.  Once you leave a page, rather than retyping the address you can simply click the back button.  Now if you want to get back to the second page you can click the forward button.

Opening your browsers

To open your browser On a pc you can double click on the browsers icon on the desktop or in a folder, or you can open the start menu and click on the browser icon.  However when working on a mac there is no start menu available, though it wasn't mentioned in the book, there is a dock at the bottom of the screen instead

Browsing tabs

Web browsers have several features to make browsing quicker and easier for the users.  One example is the feature allowing you to open multiple web pages in different "tabs".  While browsing the web you can click the new tab button to open a blank tab, in this tab you can open up another website without closing the other site.

Chapter 1

    The beginning of this chapter seemed to be a review of the basic knowledge most people have about the internet.  It described what the internet is generally used for, and specifically explained many of the activities that are performed everyday online.  It did however, give a few definitions, to terms and abbreviations that are used everyday but perhaps not always understood by the user.  The next part of the chapter: The History of the Internet, is where the much less known information was explained.  It was interesting to say the least, explaining the origins of the internet and different types of connections that either failed or succeeded.  It went through each step the internet took from being used solely by the government to protect data by connecting multiple computers to developing into the sophisticated tool used by the general public, the government, and businesses today.