BTM 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Videotelephony, Web Navigation, E-Commerce

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: Bo Yu

Document Summary

Module 2: using the internet: making the most of the web"s. Resources: history of the internet, forms of internet communication, web entertainment, e-commerce, web browsers, urls, hyperlinks, search engines, improving search results, evaluating websites, data traveling across internet, connecting to the internet. History of the internet: developed for secure military communications, evolved from advanced research projects agency network (arpanet, funded by the u. s. government in the 1960s, enabled computers at leading universities and research organizations to communicate with each other. Forms of internet-based communication include: email, instant messaging, group communication, social networking, web blogs and video vlogs, wikis, podcasts, webcasts. Email: electronic mail, asynchronous communication, types of email accounts. Web-based (does not require software: not private. Instant messaging: instant messaging (im) uses real-time text-based conversations, similar to chat. Can be monitored by employers rooms: users set up a list of contacts, often called a buddy list, contacts must be online to participate.