The World Wide Web is basically a collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web. These documents are stored or 'hosted' on thousands of computers called servers located in every counry in the world.
To web is thus made up of,
- Personal computers to view it.
- Browser software to access the Web.
- A connection from an ISP Internet service provider like AOL.
- Servers that host all of the data.
- Routers and switches that control and direct the flow of data.
To find web pages they are given a (Uniform Resource Locator) URL address. This is the location of a web page. You reach this address by entering it into your web browser's address bar or by clicking a link to it. A common place to find links is search engines and directories.
The common form of a web page is a document written in a computer language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). However other forms of documents such as PHP and ASP are becoming more common to create web documents in.
