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What is
the Internet?
The Internet is a
global network of computers that communicate using a common
language. It is similar to the international telephone system—no
one owns or controls the whole thing, but it is connected in a
way that makes it work like one big network. For more,
click here.
The World Wide Web
(WWW) gives you a graphical, easy-to-navigate interface for
looking at documents on the Internet. These documents, as well
as the links between them, comprise a "web" of information.
Files, or "pages," on
the Web are interconnected. You connect to other pages by
clicking special text or graphics, which are called hyperlinks.
Pages can contain
news, images, movies, sounds—just about anything. These pages
can be located on computers anywhere in the world. When you are
connected to the Web, you have equal access to information
worldwide; there are no additional long-distance charges or
restrictions.
Hyperlinks are
underlined or bordered words and graphics that have Web
addresses embedded in them. By clicking a hyperlink, you jump to
a particular page in a particular Web site. You can easily
identify a hyperlink. Hyperlink text is a different color from
the rest of the text on a Web page.
Each Web page,
including a Web site's home page, has a unique address called a
Uniform Resource Locator (URL), for example,
http://www.stevenefitch.com. Domain Name System (DNS)
names are used on the Internet.
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