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