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Topic 1: Internet and Email
THE WEB BROWSER
Is the Web the same as the Internet?
No. The Web is a collection of files that contain hyperlinks which allow you to move easily from one document to another, whereas the Network is the route Web pages take to arrive at your computer.
Web browser. What is it? This is a piece of software that lets you visit the World Wide Web, a vast interconnected group of files stored on and accessed by computers around the world. The key to the Web is its interwoven connections: the hyperlinks you work with to access specific files on your screen.
Hyperlink: this is an automatic connection - when you click on specific text or a picture on the screen you are automatically brought to another screen, another, and so on; you're working through layers of information.
These Web pages can be very simple or very sophisticated with text, graphics (pictures), sound, animation or even a small application (program), or information from a data base.
No. The Web is a collection of files that contain hyperlinks which allow you to move easily from one document to another, whereas the Network is the route Web pages take to arrive at your computer.
Web browser. What is it? This is a piece of software that lets you visit the World Wide Web, a vast interconnected group of files stored on and accessed by computers around the world. The key to the Web is its interwoven connections: the hyperlinks you work with to access specific files on your screen.
Hyperlink: this is an automatic connection - when you click on specific text or a picture on the screen you are automatically brought to another screen, another, and so on; you're working through layers of information.
These Web pages can be very simple or very sophisticated with text, graphics (pictures), sound, animation or even a small application (program), or information from a data base.
Browsers connect computers to the Internet, and allow people to “surf the Web.”
Internet Explorer is one of the browsers most commonly used. There are other browsers available as well, including Netscape, Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox.