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About The World Wide Web

Typing a URL is faster than clicking hyperlinks to view web pages. Hyperlinks make navigation easier by linking related pages, but there is a delay as the mouse moves and clicks versus immediately entering a URL.

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About The World Wide Web

Typing a URL is faster than clicking hyperlinks to view web pages. Hyperlinks make navigation easier by linking related pages, but there is a delay as the mouse moves and clicks versus immediately entering a URL.

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About the World

Wide Web
What is the World Wide
Web?
•The World Wide Web (www) is a
group of web pages. The web pages
are joined together to make a web of
information that anyone in the world
can see. Facts, pictures, videos, and
games are just a few of the things on
the WWW.
How are the Web pages joined
together?
•The Web pages are joined together
by hyperlinks. A hyperlink is a
spot on the web page that when
clicked will display a web page.
Why do you think the World
Wide Web is called “Web” for
short?
How can you see Web Pages on the
World Wide Web?
•To see Web pages on the World
Wide Web you need special
software called a Web browser.
Two kinds of Web browsers are
Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Which Web browser do you use
the most?
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Chrome
Safari
Other _______________
How do you know where the Web
Pages are on the World Wide Web?

•A Web page also have a home


address. This address is called a
Uniform Resource Locator or URL for
short.
How does the computer know what
Web page to show when a hyperlink
is clicked?
•A hyperlink contains the URL. When
the hyperlink is clicked the computer
gets the web page from its address on
the Internet.
What is URL?
•The address bar is at the top of
the Web browser window. It
shows the URL or Web page
address.
What is the URL of the Web page you are
looking for?

•The URL begins with http. It


stands for hypertext transfer
protocol. It tells the Web browser
you want to see a file on the
Internet.
What three characters come
after http?
•http _____ _____ _____
•often after http:// comes
www. Take a guess. What do
you think www stands for?
What is Domain?

•After http://www comes the


domain. A domain is the
registered name of the website.
Types of Domain Names
•.com – commercial
•.gov – government
•.edu – education
•.net – network
•.org – organization
•.us or .ca – country name
• Sometimes there is a path name after the
domain. The pathname may have the
name of the HTML document. It may also
have a folder name. For example:
http://www.domain.com/
folder/file.html
• If there is nothing after the domain, then it
means the web browser is displaying the
default HTML document. It is usually
called index.html
Activity
Direction: Type the URL into the address bar
• Click the mouse in the address bar.
• Type the URL
http://www.nationalgeographic.com
• Click Search or press Enter key on the
keyboard. The National Geographic web page
opens.
Click on Hyperlinks
•Find hyperlink on the Web page –
it is a post where a “hand” shows
up when the pointer rests over it.
•Click on the hyperlink to show
another web page.
Hyperlinks
•Hyperlinks help you get to
different web address or URLs
without having to type them into
the web browser.
Which is faster?
•Clicking a hyperlink to view a web
page.
•Typing a URL into a Web browsers to
view Web page.

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