Lesson 6 Outcomes:

💻6.1. What is the internet?

The Internet, simply put, is an information superhighway. Millions of computers around the world are linked together using normal telephone lines, high speed digital telephone lines, fibre-optic cables, and even satellite systems. Many of these computers contain information that may be accessed by any one of the computers that is connected to the Internet (or

simply, the net). There is considerably more information available on the Internet than in the American library of Congress (the largest library in the world).

The World Wide Web – which is based around the internet, has millions of web-pages that you can access from any computer in the world. These web pages have their own information. An Internet Browser allows a person to view web pages on the Internet. Web pages themselves may contain various types of data, including music, pictures or even film. Most web browsers will show films and pictures, and play music, if need be. The web browser that we use is called Internet Explorer™ and it comes as part of the Windows™ package.