What is the World-Wide Web?
The World-Wide Web is a term used to describe all of the information and multimedia content available on the Internet. To access this information, you use an application called a web browser. *Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser application. Internet Explorer lets you search, find, view and download information on the Internet. “Hypertext” makes the web an easy place to navigate. Using a file format called “HTML” (hypertext markup language), “hypertext” lets you “hyperlink” or jump from one page on the web to other pages — those pages can contain images, movies, sounds, 3D worlds, just about anything. The pages and files can be located anywhere on the Internet. The “hyperlinks” are the connecting strands that form the World Wide Web. When you are connected to the web, you have equal access to information anywhere in the world; there are no additional “long distance” charges or restrictions.
