My First IS Lesson: The Internet & WWW

On the first Infocomm Studies lesson, Mr Kent taught us about some basic information that we need to know when using a computer, such as how the Internet works. Before we can gain access to the Internet, we have to select a broadband service provider, like Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. After this is completed, we can find the information that we need on the Internet via search engines. We only have to type in some keywords on the search engine and press Enter, then the links which have the information will be displayed in less than a second! We also learnt what short forms of certain Internet-related terms stand for. For example, URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. Next, we also learnt what a domain name is. It is actually what we type in every time we want to go to a website. However, the computer can only read codes, but codes are replaced by alphabets, so when we go to a website, we just need to type in the URL, not the code 52.891.563.58(for example). It has saved us a lot of time. I really enjoyed my first Infocomm Studies lesson and I have acquired a lot of new knowledge about IT.