The Internet and the World Wide Web

The Internet and the World Wide Web

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   The Internet and the World Wide Web
   
   1. 
      The Internet
      
      1. 
         Includes everything - WWW, text, servers, bulletin boards, etc.
         
      2. 
         Also called the Net or the Information Highway
         
   2. 
      World Wide Web
      

      1. A smaller portion of the Internet - usually muti-media sites

      2. 
         Called WWW for short
         

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   The language of the Net and Browsers
   

   1. HTML - hyper-text markup language - a programming language using tags and special characters to write the pages you see with a browser.

   2. http:// - The start of most Internet addresses. Stands for hyper-text transfer protocol. Indicates a Web address which resides in the area of the Internet.

   3. http://www. – This portion of an address indicates the page is located on the World Wide Web.

   4. Source - The actual html codes of the web page

   5. Browser - The program loaded on your hard drive which translates html into viewable pages

      1. Microsoft Internet Explorer - versions 3.0 and 4.0 (referred to MSIE3 or MSIE4)

      2. 
         Netscape 3.0 or Netscape Communicator
         
      3. 
         AOL - America On-line
         

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   How you communicate with the Net
   

   1. Your computer > your browser > your modem > your service provider's server > a far off computer server where the web page is stored > your service provider > your modem > your browser > your computer

   2. Service providers - these are the companies which connect you to the Web. Usually you pay a monthly fee (based on the amount of time you can connect). This fee allows you to get to the provider's server which is then connected to the Internet.

   3. Every computer which is on-line has an address - expressed as a series of numbers to the computer, but also has a "friendly name" displayed in words. This is how the information is returned to the correct computer.

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   Using the Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers
   
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