Learning the Language of the World Wide Web

There are several terms and ideas to learn about if you wish to become a proficient user of the WWW. Over the next few pages we will cover some of the basic words and ideas that will help you to better understand and, therefore, more successfully navigate the information that is available.

But first, aside from being one way to access information on the Internet, what is the WWW really?

The WWW can be described with the following two words:

• Global
• Distributed

So, what does that really mean...?