The Internet and the Web.

File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is mainly known as the network protocol, it is used to exchange data between computer in the internet through a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-based network. It is a very fundamental way to transfer files between a FTP server. A very good example is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which functions in transfering displayable web pages and related files. Other than that, Simple Mail Protocol is also one of the FTP, which helps to transfer email from one to another.



File Transfers



Plug-ins

Plug-ins are programs that can easily be installed and used on your Web browser. One very good example of plug-ins that are very commonly used is Adobe Flash Player. It is a plug-in that allows us to access to most of the animations or videos in the internet. Most of them are not neccesary and used more as a bonus feature for the browsers. But for certain browsers, to access applications like Flash Player you might need to download certain plug-ins for the browser.

Firefox is an example for browsers that offers multiple plug-ins.

Filters

Internet filters are software tools used to monitor web contents viewed on a computer or network. In family computers, Internet filters can help parents manage and control the freedom that their kids can access on the computers. It is also used by education organisation or schools to protect kids from viewing inappropriate material or access unproductive websites. This is also applied by corporate organisations to control their workers' access to the Internet. Internet filters like "phishing filters" can warn you about and block you from suspicious websites that might be fraudulent. Moreover, internet filters like "spam filters" can keep spam out of your inbox.

Interface of a internet filter program.

Internet Security Suite

Internet Security Suite is a set of programs use to defend your computer from being affected by harmful data like viruses, spyware and hackers. A way the program work is it scans datas or files downloaded from the Internet to make sure it is safe and if it is not, the program will notify the users about it so that harmful data can be prevented from the computer. Internet security is very important especially for big corporate organisations where storage of information are very important.

An Internet Security Suite.

Wiki

Wiki is a website that is used to create and edit a number of interlinked web pages through a web browser. Wiki is basically powered by wiki software, it normally creates collaborative wiki websites. For example, Wikipedia. A widely popular online encyclopedia.

Javascript

Javascript is typically used to enable programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment. Through this programmatic access it enables users to make a certain web page interactive. It functions well in your visitor's computer, leading them not to download constantly from your web site. An applet is a program written in the Java programming language that can be included in an HTML page. When a Java-enabled program is used to view pages on web browsers containing applet, the applet's code is translated by the browser's Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Javascript editor.

HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is the essence of a webpage. A primary programming language used to write and create web pages. HTML is written in forms of elements consisting of tags surrounded by symbols like angle bracket, for example a bolded line of text is accompanied by a <b> followed by the text body and then closed with a </b>.

URL

Url stands for Uniform Resources Locator. It is the address of documents and everything else on the Internet. The first part of the address is a protocol identifier which indicates which protocol will be used, and the second part of the address is is called the resource name and is used to specify the IP address or the domain name where the resource is located.

URL