1. Skills: none Concepts: application, network versus stand-alone application, client, server, application versus system program This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Network versus stand-alone applications

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

3. Network versus stand-alone applications Is word processing a network or stand-alone application? What is the difference?

4. Microsoft Word – a stand-alone application CPU Input Devices WP doc 1 MS word Operating system Output Devices Operating system WP doc 2 WP doc n … Current WP Document MS word

5. user’s computer WP doc 1 WP doc 2 WP doc n … Google Drive WP program Google Drive word processing – a network application

6. Things change over time Programs Image Audio Text videos Why didn’t we store all data types on the Internet from the start? Which type of data was first stored on the Internet?

7. A remote computer: drive.google.com User’s computer drive.google.com Which computer is the client? The server? Explain your answer.

8. Creating a new word processing document Why does the screen go blank for a second or two between the time you click create document and the word processing program opens on the screen? 1 or 2 seconds delay

9. Client and server Client server

10. System versus application programs Operating system Current WP Document MS word

11. user’s computer WP doc 1 WP doc 2 WP doc n … Google Drive WP program Summary

12. Self-study questions 1.We discussed two word processing programs, Microsoft Word and the Google Drive word processor. What are two advantages of Google Drive over Word? 2.What are two advantages of Word over Google Drive? 3.Will future improvement in storage technology favor Word or Google Drive? (Explain) 4.Will future improvement in communication technology favor Word or Google Drive? (Explain) 5.Is email a network or a stand-alone application? (Explain) 6.Is spreadsheet processing a network or a stand-alone application? (Explain) 7.We see that the operating system is in memory while one is using a computer -- when is the operating system copied from storage to memory? 8.Audio and video data came relatively late to the Internet – why was there use delayed?