Web vs Internet
Did you know that the Internet and the Web (World Wide Web - www) are not the same thing? People often use these terms interchangeably but they are completely different concepts.
The Internet is a worldwide system of computer networks that enables computers of all kinds to share services and communicate using Internet Protocol (IP). The Web is one of the services available on the Internet, which allows access to all kinds of documents and media through hyperlinks.
For more information have a look at these Wikipedia articles:Using the Browser to navigate the Internet
Here are links to web pages that explain how various browsers works:
- What is a browser? - a short video.
- How tabbed browsing works for Internet Explorer, version 7 (IE7)
- More information on how tabbed browsing works - FAQs - this information also applies IE8.
- How the Firefox browser works- Firefox is another popular tabbed browser, freely available.
- Google has developed a browser called Chrome. Learn more about the Chrome features and get the latest news on Google's Chrome blog.
Quick overview of navigating the internet
You can navigate to websites by inserting the website's address (or URL), or via links embedded in web pages:
