| Everyday we log on and get into this | | | | Provider. |
| strange online world called the web. Now | | | | Once the IP address is reached, the web |
| many of us believe that the Internet and | | | | site and all its content becomes |
| web are the same, but though they are | | | | available to the user. Almost |
| related, they are not quite the same | | | | immediately the html or hypertext markup |
| thing. The Internet or the Net as we all | | | | language code is sent back and the text |
| call it now, is a worldwide system of | | | | and graphics are available to the |
| interconnected computer networks. It | | | | browser. This happens fairly quickly, |
| transmits data using the Internet | | | | taking just a few seconds, helping us |
| protocol. The net has many networks all | | | | make the most optimum use of the web. |
| tied together, carrying out many | | | | If things do not go as planned, the |
| functions. These functions may be as | | | | viewer will get an error message stating |
| different as email or pages of | | | | 'the page cannot be displayed'. This |
| information, or even online chat. The | | | | could mean that there is an error in the |
| Web is a read-write information space. | | | | server name or the page being searched |
| It has resources like text documents, | | | | for does not exist. Sometimes the server |
| images and multimedia. | | | | could be busy or the page being searched |
| It is interesting to see how the web | | | | has moved. It is best to follow the |
| works. Anyone accessing the web will use | | | | instructions given and continue. |
| a web browser like the Internet Explorer | | | | All this sounds very simple, but today |
| or Mozilla Firefox and the hypertext | | | | there is high degree of sophistication |
| link to the page or resource is typed | | | | in the programming and solutions offered |
| in. The address would read like this ' | | | | by a web page. The credit for designing |
| This address is given by the global, | | | | the concept of the web goes to Tim |
| distributed Internet database known as | | | | Berners-Lee, when he built the |
| the Domain Name System or DNS. To make | | | | "ENQUIRE". On August 6, 1991, he posted |
| this sound easier, in the above example, | | | | a short summary of the World Wide Web |
| the address of the server is and there, | | | | project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, |
| a request to view "mypage" is being | | | | using the concept of HTML. This was the |
| made. HTTP or Hypertext Transfer | | | | debut of the Web as a service on the |
| Protocol helps in accessing the server. | | | | Internet. He applied the idea of links |
| The DNS then turns all this into an | | | | to the Internet. This meant that the web |
| individualized IP or Internet Protocol | | | | became an accumulation of pages that |
| address. This will look like a phone | | | | could be accessed by clicking on links. |
| number with four numbers between 0 and | | | | Today we have benefited so much from |
| 255. The IP is a procedure set up by the | | | | this new communication system which |
| Internet to find a server anywhere in | | | | makes the world so much smaller than |
| the world. In fact once the IP address | | | | before and has linked its many peoples |
| is known, the server can be located | | | | as no other means could have ever done. |
| through the ISP or Internet Service | | | | |