What is the Internet?
About this course
Become an internet savvy
The internet is the world’s largest library, shopping center, information center and social meeting point, all rolled into one. You can connect with friends and family, find information, sell and buy goods, pay bills, play games, watch movies and much more over the internet. Best of all, you don’t need much to get started.
In this course you’ll learn the basics of getting online and navigating the internet.
This course has been specially designed for larger screens. So for the best experience, please view these activities on a laptop or desktop computer.
The Internet helps people stay healthy in a number of ways. Firstly, accessing information about health is much easier thanks to the Internet. Elderly people can look up information about health conditions, medications, the foods they are eating, ways to improve their health and much more
What you'll learn:
Importance of Internet
What is the Internet?
- a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
What is a Web Browser?
- A browser is a software application used to locate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files.
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Web addresses and links, Every website has a unique address, and if you type a web address into a browser, it will go to that site and open it. Web addresses may look strange at first but they’re usually made up of www followed by two or more words, separated by dots.
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search engine.
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