Summary: Internet Basics part 1 The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Net or Internet</a> is a global system of inter-connected computer networks that started everyday use in 1993 with the World Wide Web protocols. These computer networks consisting of private, public, academic, business and government packet switched systems linked by electronic, wireless and optical technologies. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Internet History of.</a> Today most of our use of the Internet is helped by search engines. The first of with was Archie in 1990. It was not until 1994 that the first natural language search with Altavista started followed by Yahoo that same year. The present day King of Internet search Google did not happen until 1996. Google gave us advanced algorithms and speed in everyday natural language search. <a href="http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Search Engine History of.</a> To utilize all this you first need a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Web Browser</a> or software application to retrieve, present and traverse information and resources on the World Wide Web. The first browser was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Netscape Navigator</a> in the 1990’s that is no longer in business. Their are several browsers today. Most are staying very similar in capabilities and everyone has their favorite. The Top ones are <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mozilla Firefox</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html#brand=CHMB&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Chrome</a>, <a href="http://www.opera.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Opera</a> along with Microsoft (IE)Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. The last 2 have some security issues that make them less desirable on a whole but are improving. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser_history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Web Browser History of.</a> Now that we have a little background we can move on to some of the basics and how to use a browser to get on the net or surf the net. After double clicking on browser icon, opening your browser of choice. This first page that appears is the start page, which can be changed but we will discuss that later. Now then look for is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_bar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Address Bar</a>, location or URL which consists of a long blank rectangle area you can type a search term or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">(URL)uniform resource locator</a> into. A URL is a web address you already know without using a search engine. Some thing like <a href="http://www.ElderDivide.com" target="_blank">http://www.ElderDivide.com</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">(http)hyper text transport protocol</a> semi-colon and two forward slashes is already provided in most modern browsers so you only need the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">(www)world wide web</a> plus a period followed by site name and ending in period and (com)commercial. There are some different beginning URL’s besides www and some web sites do not require this either as browsers now even put this part in for you like the http://. The last part (.com)dot com or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">domain designator or name</a> can also end with different <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">country codes</a> or extensions.
