Internet, World Wide Web and Browser

1. Internet, World Wide Web and Browser

2. Internet • The World Wide Web, the Internet, and the browser can be compared to a massive transit system.

3. World Wide Web • The Word Wide Web can be compared to a specific mode of transportation e.g. airline. • There are four modes of transportation; they are rails, airlines, vessels, and trucks.

4. Internet • The Internet is equivalent to all modes of transportation: trucks, vessels, airlines and rails.

5. Browser • The browser is a specific entity within a specific mode of transportation e.g. such as Delta Airlines.

6. World Wide Web verses the Internet • The World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same. • The World Wide Web lives on top of the Internet. • The World Wide Web is a bunch of “pages” of information connected to each other around the globe.

7. World Wide Web • Each page can have information via a combination of: text, pictures, audio clips, video clips, animations and other medium.

8. Internet • The Internet 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.

9. Browser • The browser is the page that shows you the web. • Every Web page has a name attached to it so that browsers, and you, can find it. • The name of this naming convention: URL or Uniform Resource Locator • Every Web page has a URL, a series of characters that begin with http:// • Pronounced each letter, “U-R-L.”