Monday, August 15, 2011

FACILITIES ON THE INTERNET

Assalamu'alaikum..
wanna explain a bit about facilities on the internet. enjoy~ ^^

FACILITIES ON THE INTERNET

1. WWW (WORLD WIDE WEB)
www or usually we called it web, is an Internet facility consisting of vastly distribute database. You can access any information in a form of text, images, audios, films, or multimedia animations through the web.

2. BLOG
Blog is a website created and mananged by individual. Normally, it contains of personal properties (personal information), reports of the person's activities, pictures and personal video. Some people usually called it digital diary. We can use many websites such as blogger.com, wordpress, or livejournal.com to create blog.


3. ONLINE STORES
Online stores provides you things that you could buy through web. These will help you to buy things easier and faster, instead of go shopping at the mall for examples. The payment is usually with a credit card or by transfering some money to a certain bank account. Your order will be delivered by post or other delivery services.

4. E-MAIL
E-mail (short of electronic mail) is used to communicate or to have direct connection with someone by electronic mail. We cand send or receive electronic message from all over the world, and also chat using the website's chatting (mesanger) facilities. The most popular free email account today are webbased like Yahoo!, Gmail, and MSN.

5. MAILING LIST AND DISCUSSION FORUM
Mailing list is a facility for cyber discussions by email. The most popular mailing list is Yahoo! Group.
Discussion forum is a place on the internet where you can discuss certain topics with other people online. Try kaskus.com, it is one of famous discussion forum.







The difference between mailing list and discussion forum is the medium. While mailing lists use email, discussion forum is using web.



Thank you ^^

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