Online Portals
Online Portals
The term online refers to the Internet and the web pages that form part of the World Wide Web. An online portal is a website that provides an entry point for a range of information, tools, and links Website can be defined as it is a structure the access to information found on the Internet.
People assume that the web portal has been around since the invention of the Internet that is not the case; Late-1990s many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to have a piece of the Internet market. The web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their web browser .
In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Netscape became a part of America Online, the Walt Disney Company launched Go.com, IBM and others launched Prodigy, Lycos was said to be a good target for other media companies, such as CBS. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (CBS) is a major U.S. commercial broadcasting television network,
Disney on January 1998 registered go.com. Infoseek and Disney Online joint ventured in developing the Go Network, an internet portal.
Go.com was launched in January 1999 as a portal with content from ABCNews.com, ESPN.com and Disney.
The dot-com bust in 2000 and 2001, Excite went bankrupt, Go.com dropped its internal search engine in favor of goto.com search results. In 2013, Disney retired the Go.com logo and branding, turning the domain into a Disney-branded landing page.
Types of Portal - Personal portals, Government web portals, corporate web portals, Search portals, and news portals, social Networking portals etc.
Home Page -
Each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information
Domain name - A domain name represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned
The term online refers to the Internet and the web pages that form part of the World Wide Web. An online portal is a website that provides an entry point for a range of information, tools, and links Website can be defined as it is a structure the access to information found on the Internet.
People assume that the web portal has been around since the invention of the Internet that is not the case; Late-1990s many companies tried to build or acquire a portal to have a piece of the Internet market. The web portal gained special attention because it was, for many users, the starting point of their web browser .
In 1982, the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) was standardized, Commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Netscape became a part of America Online, the Walt Disney Company launched Go.com, IBM and others launched Prodigy, Lycos was said to be a good target for other media companies, such as CBS. CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (CBS) is a major U.S. commercial broadcasting television network,
Disney on January 1998 registered go.com. Infoseek and Disney Online joint ventured in developing the Go Network, an internet portal.
Go.com was launched in January 1999 as a portal with content from ABCNews.com, ESPN.com and Disney.
The dot-com bust in 2000 and 2001, Excite went bankrupt, Go.com dropped its internal search engine in favor of goto.com search results. In 2013, Disney retired the Go.com logo and branding, turning the domain into a Disney-branded landing page.
Types of Portal - Personal portals, Government web portals, corporate web portals, Search portals, and news portals, social Networking portals etc.
Home Page -
Each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information
Domain name - A domain name represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned