The Basics

The Internet is a network of computer networks, upon which anyone who has access to a host computer can publish their documents. One of these networks is the World Wide Web (commonly called "the Web") which allows Internet publishers to link to other documents on the network. The Internet allows transmission of a variety of file types, including multimedia files.

In any search you do, you will find many kinds of Internet sites created by different people or organizations with different objectives. The animation below illustrates some of the types of sites on the Web, using an example search for information about MP3 players. Click on each search result to watch a short movie — when each movie is done, click on the Back button (circled in red) to return to the main menu, or the Refresh button (circled in green) to watch the movie again.

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