Thursday

Stop Junk Mail & Do Not Call Registry

National Do Not Call List- Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007

Direct Mail- Sign up for DirectMail.com's Mail Preference registry to take control of your mail box. Tired of receiving unwanted mail known as 'junk mail'?

Catalog choice- The free service that lets you reduce unwanted mail & choose how you hear from merchants.

Opt out Prescreen- Optoutprescreen.com lets you opt out of pre-approved credit card offers and the risk of credit card fraud that comes with them.

Internet



The Internet is made up of millions of computers linked together around the

world cooperating with each other.


The World Wide Web is a collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web.



How does it all Work

  1. Your Computer
  2. Your Modem
  3. Telephone or Cable
  4. Your ISP
  5. Servers
Web pages are stored on web servers located around the globe.


A server is a computer designed to process requests and deliver data to other computers over a local network or the Internet.

Break Down Of A Simple Page Request

First you enter the address or URL of the website in you web browser.

Your browser request the web page from the web server that hosts the website.


Then the server send the data over the internet to your computer. Your Web browser interprets the data,displaying it on your screen.


What is a web browser?



A Web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web.

Here is a few popular browsers.



A website is one or more web pages that relate to a common theme.

The first page is called the home page, which acts like an index, indicating the content on the site.

From the home page, you can click hyperlinks to access other web pages.