CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Local Area Network

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

The internet is both a source of information and a communication tool. E-mail has quickly caught on as the primary method of electronic communication because its fast and convenient and reduces the costs of postage and long- distance phone calls. Some e-mail accounts are client-based such as those used at the university and those speci cally tied to a particular internet service provider (isp) that we use as personal emails. A web- based e-mail address can be accessed from anywhere that there is an active. Free mail accounts such as yahoo or hotmail use web- based e-mail clients. They can be forwarded, printed and even read by your employer. Uses real-time text-based conversations, similar to chat rooms. Users set up a list of contacts, often called a buddy list. Im software detects the presence of members who are online. Podcasts are compressed audio and video les distributed on the internet using.