Technology and Information System

CHAPTER 2: The internet, the web, and electronic commerce

by NORESH SYAZWANI NAJWA BINTI ESHAMMUDIN

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the origins of the Internet and the Web.
  • Describe how to access the Web using providers and browsers.
  • Discuss Internet communications, including e-mail, instant messaging, social networking, blogs, microblogs, Webcasts, podcasts, and wikis.
  • Describe search tools, including search engines, Web Directories, metasearch engines, and specialized search engines.
  • Evaluate the accuracy of information on the Web.
  • Discuss electronic commerce, including B2C, C2C, B2B, and security issues.
  • Describe cloud computing, including the three-way interaction of clients, Internet, and service providers.
  • Describe Web utilities including plug-ins, filters, file transfer utilities, andInternet security suites.

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DEFINITION

Internet

  • a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.

Web

  • the common name for the World Wide Web, a subset of the Internet consisting of the pages that can be accessed by a Web browser. 

E-Commerce

  • the marketing, buying and selling of merchandise or services over the Internet. It encompasses the entire scope of online product and service sales from start to finish. E-commerce tools include computer platforms, applications, solutions, servers and various software formats manufactured by e-commerce service providers and purchased by merchants to increase online sales.

 

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CHAPTER 2: The internet, the web, and electronic commerce

Posted on 21 May 2018, 12:08 PM

WHAT I LEARN

  • the origins of the Internet and the Web.
  • to access the Web using providers and browsers.
  • Internet communications, including e-mail, instant messaging, social networking, blogs, microblogs, Webcasts, podcasts, and wikis.
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