Title: READ: WWW, Browswers and ISPs
Course: Computer Technology

Connecting to the Internet
- a. Internet connection
- b. ISP
- c. Modems, cable, wireless

Read the following material, and the do the flash activity at the end of the lesson.

What is the World Wide Web?
- The web is a network of computers all over the world.
- All the computers in the web can communicate with each other.
- All the computers use a communication protocol called HTTP.

How does the WWW work?
- Web information is stored in documents called web pages.
- Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.
- Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.
- Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.
- Popular browsers are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome.

How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?
- A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.
- A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.
- An address may look like this: http://www.example.com/default.htm.

How does a Browser Display a Web Page?
- All web pages contain instructions for display.
- The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
- The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.
- HTML tags look like this <p>This is a paragraph.</p>.

What is a Web Server?
- The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
- To let others view your web pages, you must publish your web site.
- To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
- Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
- Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

What is an Internet Service Provider?
- ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.
- An ISP provides Internet Services.
- A common Internet service is web hosting.
- Web hosting means storing your web site on a public server.
- Web hosting normally includes email services.

What is WYSIWYG? (pronounced Wiz-ee-wig)

- WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get.
- WYSIWYG implies a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar to the end result while the document is being created.
- WYSIWYG implies the ability to directly manipulate the layout of a document without having to type or remember names of layout commands.
- Brainhoney's box that appears when you submit something to your teacher is an example of a WYSIWYG editor. You can change the format of how things appear, and it appears EXACTLY like how you set it to me on the other end.

Source: The material for this lesson came directly from: http://www.w3schools.com/hosting/host_intro.asp and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG.