SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE WEB

WHAT IS THE WORLD WIDE WEB?

The World Wide Web is the graphical interface strand of the Internet. It allows text files and multi-media files -- graphics, pictures, moving images, video and movies, and audio/sound -- to be sent and received over the Internet.

The Web also recognizes and leads users to the other four Internet strands (Gopher, FTP, Usenet, and Telnet), making the Internet more seamless and easy to use.

The Web itself does not exist at any one place. It is truly a web of interconnected documents, files, and computers that together create this thing called the Web. Like the Internet itself, the Web is constantly changing and evolving as new information is added and expanded.

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