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College of Humanities and Legal Studies

Faculty of Arts
Information Literacy Skills Unit

ILT 101
INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS
Session 7: INTRODUCTION TO THE
INTERNET
Session Objectives
At the end of the session, students would be able
to:
• Have basic appreciation of what constitute the
Internet
• Understand the concept of the Computer
Networks
• Known the modes of Accessing the Internet
• Appreciate the Uses and Misuses of the
Internet
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INTERNET
– Definition: Simply; A global network of Computer
Networks
– The Internet is a large computer network that has
connections to a vast number of computers all
around the world.
– It is not centrally controlled that is; no regulatory
body, individual, company, institution or
government controls the entire internet.

– Owners of various parts of the networks maintain


them.
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COMPUTER NETWORKS
• Computer networks are group of computers
connected to each other, so they can share
information and electronic equipment.
• Resources shared on computer networks include
hardware (printers, webcam, scanner, digital
cameras, etc.), software and data/ information.
• A computer network usually has a server (host)
which controls other devices (clients) on the
network.

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Types of Computer Networks
• Local Area Network (LAN)
• Wide Area Network (LAN)
• Campus Area Network (CAN)
• Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

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INTERNET PROTOCOLS
• A set of rules that help the different computer
networks on the Internet to communicate without
conflict.

• The standard Internet communication protocols are


the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the
Internet Protocol (IP).

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BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

• The Internet is a modern phenomenon which became popular from the latter
part of 1960s (1969 to be specific).

• The initial network; ARPANET involved four computer networks at four different
locations designed by U.S. Defense Department's
• The ARPANET was only used to communicate and designed with the purpose of
having sustainable system that could not be destroyed.
• Numerous modification to this network resulted in the development of the
World Wide Web (www) in 1989 .

• The www made the Internet interactive and also gave it a multimedia nature (i.e.
possible to host text, sound and graphics).
• In 1990, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) was created to make possible to
use international networks for web browsing.
• In 1995, Ghana was among the first countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to have
Internet access through Network Computer Systems (NCS).

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ACCESSING THE INTERNET
• Broadly, connection to the Internet could be grouped into two;
– Dial up and Broadband Access
Dial-up
Refers to the Connection of a Personal Computer to the Internet
using dial-up modem.
With the dial up connection the digital signal from the
computer sending the data is converted analog signals by the
modem and made to go through the phone lines into the ISP
network and later to the destination of the message.
The dial up connection does not exceed a speed of 56 kbps.

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DIAL-UP CONNECTION

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BROADBAND CONNECTION
• Refers collectively to faster or high speed connections
to the internet. The broadband is always on and doesn’t
require the client dialing into the service provider’s
network always.
• Though the most expensive option, it allows for faster
Internet browsing and downloading of documents and
files.

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TYPES OF BROADBAND CONNECTION
• Digital Subscriber Line Connection (DSL)
• Satellite Modem Connection
• Cable Modem Connection
• Wireless Connection
• Mobile Broadband
•

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BANDWIDTH
• The speed and amount of data or information that is
transferred from one place to the other on the Internet.
• It is measured in bits per second(bps).
• The bigger the bandwidth size, the greater the volume of
information that could be transmitted at a time and so
the faster it will be to move information from one place
to the other on the Internet.

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BROWSERS
• A browser is a software or a program that is used to
navigate the Internet.
• Browsers could be grouped into two: graphic and text-
based
• Eg. Graphic based: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet
Explorer, Safari, Flock, Opera, Google Chrome, etc
Eg. text-based; Lynx, Mosaic
• Browsers could be used for communication and
retrieval of information
• Without a browser you would not be able to access
Internet
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Basic User Features of a Web Browser
Interface

Refresh/Reload button Address bar


Back Forward Stop
button button
button

Search bar
Uses of the Internet
• Communication
• Education and Research
• E-commerce
• Information Dissemination
• Entertainment
• Online Services

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Misuse of the Internet
• Pornography
• Identity Theft/Fraud
• Spamming
• Computer Virus

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Reading List
A. Entsua-Mensah, C (Ed.)(2015). Information
literacy skills: A course book (Revised Edition).
Cape Coast: Library Publication Committee.
B. Apte, S.D. (2015). Advanced digital signal
processing. New Delhi: Wiley India Private
Limited.
C. Eisenberg,M.B., Lowe, C.A. & Spitzer, K.L.(2008).
Information literacy: An essential skills for the
information age. Ohio: Linworth Books

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