Your browser is equipped with many useful features to assist you in navigating through the Web. These features are labeled in the picture below: Menu bar The menu bar, located at the very top of the screen, can be accessed using the mouse. When you hold down the mouse button over an item in the [...]
The way that you connect to the Web will depend on whether you are connecting to it from home or from your classroom. In the classroom, teachers usually access the Web through an always-on Local Area Network (LAN) connection. All the teacher has to do to enable this connection is make sure that the network [...]
The World Wide Web (also known as just “the Web”) is a vast collection of linked files that may include images and other multimedia. These files are accessed over the Internet using a protocol called http. A key feature of the Web is the ability to link files in any order by using hyperlinks. A [...]
The Internet is a worldwide telecommunications system that provides connectivity for millions of other, smaller networks. For this reason, the Internet is often referred to as a “network of networks”. Using a set of common communication rules known as protocols, the Internet allows computer users to communicate with each other across long distances even if [...]
