CIS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Internet Service Provider, Firefox, Message Transfer Agent

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

A source of information and communication tool. Caught on as a primary method of electronic communication since it is fast and convenient. There are client based emails such as university ones and those tied to an internet service. Provider (isp) which require an email client such as microsoft outlook. Web-based email find messages at a host site received by and stored on a mail server and accessed anywhere there is an active internet connection, free mail accounts used web-based email clients. Email is not private since they can be forwarded, printed and read by an employer. There are contact lists of people to talk to (buddy list) Contacts need to be online to participate. Are compressed audio and video files distributed on the internet using rss technology. Rss technology allows for constant, automatic updates of web pages. Podcasts are found all over the web. Require aggregator and media player software to listen to them.