World Wide Web in Plain English
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Have you ever wondered when you visit a website where this words and images come from?
This is the World Wide Web in plain English.
This days, as long as we have an Internet-connection
using the Web is pre-easy.
We can visit billions of pages
To help figure out how it works, lets pretend we can get very small, follow the wires and explore
we need a connection from our home or business to the rest of the online world.
This connection means the information for around the world
can reach our computers.
If we had see the connection
the information come in through it
It doesn't make sense to most people.
We need a translator.
into words and images we see on web-site.
For this,
we use a web browser.
If we can follow it to at home,
It's called a server.
If there is only one server this would be simple.
But there are million of servers and web-pages.
We need a way to find a specific page on a specific server.
We did this with the web addresses.
Each server in website has a unique one
we can this a page on in a serve on a web tviser
we don't have to remember all the addresses
together this system makes
To visit a web-site
we're typing a web address or click a link.
The information from the web site
leaves on a server.
and a web browser translate this code into words, photos, music, videos, and links.
That help us get things done