The World Wide Web (WWW) The World Wide Web (WWW) allows computers to share, through the Internet, not just text, but pictures, videos and sound (multimedia content). Web browsers are used to find and display web pages. Web pages are files containing multimedia content. Web sites are made up of one or more web pages. Internet computers that host web sites are called web servers. Web pages are connected by hypertext or hypermedia link. Links make it easy to jump from one web page to another. Clicking on a link can connect you to another part of the web page you're viewing or to another web page on the Internet. Links are the most important feature of the WWW. E-mail E-mail allows you to exchange letters that are delivered electronically through the Internet. With e-mail, letters can be sent instantly to anywhere in the world.

Connecting to the Internet

Three popular types of Internet connection are Dial - Up, Cable and ADSL. Dial-Up A computer can be connected to the Internet using a regular phone line. With this type of connection, the computer dials the phone number on an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to get connected. This is the slowest type of connection. Cable and ADSL Cable and ADSL provide an Internet connection that is many times faster that Dial-up and unlike Dial-up, the computer is always connected so there is no need to connect and disconnect when you use the Internet.

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