“Internet and Cloud Services”

🌐What is the Internet?

It is a globally connected network system that uses a protocol (TCP/IP) to transmit data via various types of media.

🔎Browsers:

Software program that allows a user to locate access, and display web pages.

Ex. Firefox, Chrome, Puffin, Google Chrome, Opera...

🔎Search Engines: 

Services that allow Internet users to search for content via the World Wide Web.

Ex. Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Ask.com, AOL...

🔎Cloud Services: 

Provide many IT services traditionally hosted in house, such as provisioning an application/database server from the cloud, replacing in-house storage/backup with cloud storage and accessing software and applications directly from a web browser without prior installation.

Ex. iCloud, Dropbox, Drive, Blackboard, SkyDrive...