Twin Oaks’ Internet Resources By Donald W. Larson February 22, 2006.
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Transcript of Twin Oaks’ Internet Resources By Donald W. Larson February 22, 2006.
Twin Oaks’ Internet Resources
By
Donald W. Larson
February 22, 2006
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Who Is Don Larson?
Current Club WebmasterAlmost 26 years of computer technology experience in:
ProgrammingSoftware Analysis and DesignDatabase DesignProject Management
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Why Is This Topic Important?
The club’s Internet Resources are owned by every member
Know what you are paying for through your dues
Someday you may be an officer of this club
You might wish to learn more about Internet technology
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First, A Few Definitions We need to understand the definitions of a few technical terms before we explore the basic understanding of the club’s computer technology resources:
ProtocolInternetServerISP
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What Is Protocol? A set of syntactic and semantic rules for exchanging information that includes:
syntax of the information• the ordering of words
semantics of the information• the meaning of a word or term
rules for the exchange of information• rules are prescribed patterns of behavior applied to
the handling of data, such as rules of association, or rules of classification
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What Is The Internet? A network of computer networks which operates world-wide using a common set of communications protocols
The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP) and many other protocols
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What Is A Server? In computing, a server is: A computer software application that carries out some task (i.e. provides a service) on behalf of yet another piece of software called a clientThere are many kinds of serversSome of those types of servers will be described in the remaining parts of this presentation
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Domain Name Server A Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Internet’s way to map any valid and registered unique domain name to its actual Internet Protocol (IP) address:
cnn.com becomes 64.236.16.52IP addresses from those four octets, define the actual locations of places on the internetInternet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) maintains registrations
Domain Name Server Illustration
The ICANN Domain Name Server is the master of all other DNS
It is the gatekeeper of all valid and registered domain names
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Domain Name Components There are several hundred top-level domains:
.com
.org
.net
.gov
.milOther official two or three letter designations
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What Is An ISP? The Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the vendor who purchases high-capacity communication lines and then sells smaller portions of that capacity to end-users such as you and I, via these types of connectivity:
Dial-upDSL (Digital Subscriber Line)Cable
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Twin Oaks Internet Presence We own a location on the Internet identified by our second-level Domain Name
twinoakstoastmasters.orgWe refer to our domain name for simplicity’s sake instead of its Internet Protocol (IP) address of 66.235.221.12The first part of a second-level domain, such as “www” indicates the type of host (server) within a domain
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File Server A File Server is a specialized computer program that allows authorized users to place, use, and retrieve files within their dedicated folder located on the file server
We rent storage space on a file server for the club’s usage, such as:
Images
Web pages
PDF’s
Club schedule for members
File Server Illustration
We are but one of many customers renting disk space on our serverOur disk space is organized by folders holding different types of content
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Email/List Server For club-wide email messages, we use an Email/List Server:The email/list server is a specialized computer program that maintains a list of email addresses and associates that list to a particular email addressAny message and its content sent to that particular email address is redistributed to all valid email addresses maintained in that associated listNote: Our list server club-wide email address is not publicized outside of our membership to avoid nuisance messages (spamming) being sent to our members
Email/List Server Illustration
There could other lists constructed as needed by the clubThe same procedure is used for each list regardless of the number of recipient email addresses
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Web Server Our club maintains a Web Site on the Internet at:
www.twinoakstoastmasters.orgThe President of the club assigns Webmasters as needed to keep the web and email/list server information up-to-date and usefulThe web site accesses the files placed on the Club’s File Server within the folder structure or via links to external references on the Internet; such as content found on other web sites
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Web Browser We members use a software program called a Web Browser to connect to our web site and navigate (surf) to the web pages there to view or download that contentSome of the more popular web browsers are:
FirefoxSafariInternet Explorer
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Partial Club Web Site Content Mission and Vision StatementsClub Meeting Schedule And AssignmentsIndividual Member ProgressStandard Meeting AgendaWorkflow Of A Meeting DocumentMember PowerPoint PresentationsCurrent and Previous Club Newsletters
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Additional Information Links ICANN Domain Name ManagementHow Stuff Works - More Internet ExplanationsTwin Oaks Toastmasters Web Site
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I’m Done! Don Larson, CTM & CL
Email DonDon’s Web Site Time Out Of MindFormer President and Vice President Of Education