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WHAT'S THE FUSS ABOUT?

DEFINING THE INTERNET

HOW DID THE INTERNET START?

ALONG CAME THE WORLD WIDE WEB

HOW DOES THE WEB WORK?

URLs - WEB ADDRESSES

HYPERLINKING - ADDING POWER TO THE WEB

HTML

WHAT TO BEAR IN MIND WHEN SELECTING AN ISP

WORDS & JARGON YOU'LL COME ACROSS ON THE NET

USING YOUR BROWSER

E-MAIL

SEARCH ENGINES

INTERNATIONAL SEARCH ENGINES

LOCAL SEARCH ENGINES

BANKING ON THE NET



Your Passport to the Internet!

HOW DOES THE WEB WORK?

We need to realise that the Web is not the Internet - they are different. The Web is only a subset of the whole Internet, but what it does do is provide us with a friendly way of organising and viewing the information that is available on the Internet - not all the information, but certainly a large portion of it.

The Web enables information to be organised and presented according to pages - imagine an A4 page if you like. On any such web page, various elements of information can be included by the person developing and designing the web page. These elements of information can include text, graphics, photographs, animations, sound files and even video files.

It is important to note that every web page on the Internet (and there are in excess of 10 billion web pages presently on the Internet) has its own unique web address, known as a Universal Resource Locator (or URL).


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