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Let’s start this report with some definitions of frequently used terms so that you’re clear as to what I’ll be talking about later on in the coming chapters. If  you’re not familiar with computers and Internet, then read this chapter carefully.
I’ll be explaining in simple English so I’ll strip off as much technical jargons as I can so that any ordinary person can understand complex and technical subjects.
Let’s begin, shall we?

1. What exactly is the internet?
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. Your computer can easily access to the Internet one of two ways:

2. Through an Internet Service Provider (ISP). An ISP doesn’t provide any type of content; it just provides a connection to the Internet.

3. What is a website?
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.

4. What is a web browser?
An Internet Browser allows your visitors to view your website.

5. What is email?
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.

3. 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.

2. What is a domain name?
Basically, your domain name is the internet address of your website, it looks something like this: <a 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.  Look out for the next part tomorrow.

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