Global Information

The internet

Advantages and disadvantages

Information formats

Holders of information

Information Storage

WWW technologies

Information access and storage devices

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Individual Citizens

Businesses

Educational Institutions (schools, colleges, universities etc)

Governments

Charities

Healthcare services (doctors, hospitals)

Community organisation

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paper (e.g. forms, handwritten notes, maps, telephone directories)

optical media (e.g. CD and DVD)

magnetic media (e.g. magnetic hard drives and tapes)

solid state media (e.g. SSD hard drives, memory cards/sticks)

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handheld device (e.g. small tablet, smart phone, wearable device, eBook readers)

portable devices (e.g. laptop, large tablet)

fixed devices (e.g. desktop computer, smart TV, games consoles)

shared devices (e.g. database server, data centre, cloud storage devices)

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The internet is an interconnected network of networks.

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When it was first created the web used three main technologies to ensure that it could be used and accessed by all computers connected to the internet;

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

These technologies create www technologies like intranets and extranets.

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Web pages (Static and Dynamic)

Blogs

Podcasts

Streamed audio and video

Social media channels

Document stores

RSS feeds

static and dynamic

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for individuals

Speed of personal communication.

Ease of access to large amounts of information.

Access to internet banking 24/7.

for organisations

Share large amounts of information quickly between different countries.

Charities can accept donations 24/7

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for individuals

Potential for identity theft.

Cost of data connection.

for organisations

Threats caused by malicious attacks.

Cost of maintaining websites/ data stores that hold valuable information.