Tuesday, September 4, 2012

World Wide Web or Internet




What is the Internet?

The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.

What is the World Wide Web?

It is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and multimedia an navigate between them using hyperlinks documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contains : text, images, videos, and other multimedia and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks.


Give examples of things people do on the Web and the role of the Internet in those activities- email, for example?

Online Shopping- The internet provides internet shopping for customers without having to go to stores to actually shop for goods.
Facebook- Online communication