Q.1 What exactly is the internet?
A.1 The Internet stands for Integrated Network. The
Internet is a GLOBAL network of computers with
hundreds of millions of computers all over the
world all linked to each other.
Q.2 How to access Internet?
A.2 Your computer can
easily access to the Internet one of two ways:
• Through an Internet Service Provider (ISP). An
ISP doesn’t provide any type of content; it
just provides a connection to the Internet.
• Through an online service (e.g. America Online,
Microsoft Network, Prodigy, and so on). An
online service not only connects you to the
Internet but also provides content such as
daily news, stock quotes, football scores, and
information resources.
Once you have an Internet Access account, to log on
to the Internet you need to get your own PC
(Personal Computer) with a modem. Most new
computers come ready with a built-in (internal)
modem.
Then all you need to do to access the Internet is
to connect your home phone line to the modem, and
dial an Internet Access telephone number provided
by your ISP. A program in your computer will enable
you to access the Internet once you dial in.
When you are connected to the Internet, you can
easily send digital files and information to
another computer in the network within minutes. The
faster your PC and Internet connection is, the
faster you can send your files.
With your computer connected to the Internet, you
can easily and efficiently share information with
other users FROM AROUND THE WORLD within seconds or
minutes. If you can share information easily and
efficiently – you can easily market your products
or services to others and make money in the process
at a very low cost!
You can set up a system on the Internet to send
marketing information to your prospects 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, because the
Internet doesn’t sleep, and its users are all over
the world, each living in a different time zone!
This system consists of primarily your Website and
E-mail.
Q.3 What is a domain name?
A.3 Basically, your domain name is the internet address
of your website, it looks something like this:
www.yourname.com
Once the domain name has been selected and
registered, no one else can register the same
domain name just as there can never be two houses
with the same address. Your domain name can also be
your Internet Business name.
Q.4 What is a website?
A.4 A website can act as a brochure or sales letter but
in electronic form, viewable only in your computer.
A website can also act as your physical business
premises.
Your website displays your products in the form of
photos or illustrations and words that describe
what it is. People can browse your website for the
products you carry from any PC with an Internet
Browser without having to go there in person to see
them.
Q.5 What is a web browser?
A.5 An Internet Browser allows your visitors to view
your website.
Q.6 What is email?
A.6 An e-mail is mail in electronic format and hence,
Electronic Mail. Instead of sending a letter to
your friend by writing it on a piece of paper,
putting it into an envelope and sticking a stamp on
it before going to the post office to post it, you
compose an e-mail in your E-mail program and when
you’re ready to send, you click on the button SEND.
Q.7 What is web hosting?
A.7 The host of your website is the server. Your
website sits on the hard disk of a big computer
called a server that is connected to the Internet
24 hours a day. The server can also host other
websites simultaneously.
Q.8 What is an autoresponder?
A.8 An Autoresponder is a computer program that acts
like your answering machine for e-mail messages
from your friends. You can write out your message
in advance, like the following:
Once you’ve turned your Autoresponder on at your email
address, anyone sending e-mail to your e-mail
address will automatically receive your message
above – without any need for you to send it
manually!
A Sequential Autoresponder is a computer program
that will AUTOMATICALLY send out MORE THAN ONE prewritten
e-mail address that has been set to followup
with different messages in sequence. You can
specify the interval between each pre-written
messages and as many e-mail messages as you wish.
Q.9 What is an FTP program?
A.9 FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. An FTP
Program enables you to deliver digital files to
your website’s host directly from your own computer
through the Internet so that your website can be
ready to be viewed by your visitors. This program
is also enables you to edit and delete existing web
pages and images.
