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