Learning Internet
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The document summarizes how the World Wide Web works by explaining that web pages are stored on servers around the world and accessed via browsers, with each page having a unique URL address. Users can navigate between pages by clicking hyperlinks to other pages or typing URLs directly into their browser. Websites consist of multiple related pages hosted on a common server.
Learning Internet
- 1. Learning Internet An Initiative by www.computerscienceexpertise.com
- 2. The World Wide Web is a collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web These documents are stored on computers called servers located around the world
- 3. The Web consists of: Your personal computer Web browser software to access the Web A connection to an Internet service provider ( ISP ) Servers to host the data Routers and switches to direct the flow of data
- 4. Web pages are stored on web servers located around the globe. Entering the (Uniform Resource Locator) URL of a web page in your web browser or clicking a link sends a request to the server which hosts the page. The server sends the web page to your computer and your web browser displays it on your screen.
- 5. A web page (such as the one you are looking at now) is an electronic document written in a computer language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
- 6. Web pages can contain text, graphics, video, animation, and sound, as well as interactive features , such as data entry forms.
- 7. Each page has a unique address known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which identifies its location on the server .
- 8. Web pages usually contain hyperlinks to other web pages. Hyperlinks are text and images that reference the URLs of other web pages .
- 9. A website is one or more web pages that relate to a common theme, such as a person, business, organization, or a subject, such as sports.
- 10. There are three main ways to move between web pages or websites: Clicking a text hyperlink . Clicking a hyperlinked graphic image , such as a button, photograph, or drawing. Typing the URL of a web page in the location box (also known as the address field) of your web browser and the pressing the Enter or Return key.