Marketing on the Internet

Introduction to the Internet

January 15, 2003

 

Internet: What is it? Where did it come from?

 

1. Internet Society History page

 

 

Internet Statistics

 

1.      Survey of How Many are Online around the World

 

 

Using the Internet for Communication

 

Email

 

 

Users Net (Usenet) Google Groups

 

Newsgroup FAQs

 

Usenet Help

 

 

Chat  AOL IM, ICQ,  MSN Chat

 

 

Voice

 

  1. http://www.buddyphone.com/

 

  1. http://www.dialpad.com/

 

  1. http://www.net2phonedirect.com/

 

  1. http://www.paltalk.com/

 

  1. http://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone

 

  1. http://www.freetel.com/

 

 

 

Email Discussion Groups

 

FTP Archives

 

Specialized Databases

 

Virtual Libraries and Catalogs

 

Internet Public Library, http://lii.org/, The Library Index, Libweb

 

 

Search Engines

 

 

Meta-search tools  ( Dogpile,  Metacrawler, Vivisimo)

 

 

 Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

 

http://www.annex.com/southwest/museum.htm

 

 

Means of access (HOW)

                                                    Web Site            Host (WHERE)               Path                            File & Type (WHAT)