Web is short for the "World Wide Web". You will find the majority of people make the mistake that they think the web and Internet are the same thing. The web is just a part of the Internet and should not be used to refer to anything which is outside of the World Wide Web. You will find a lot of web sites that use the term web in their domain name to show their site is based on the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web is basically a collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web. These documents are stored or 'hosted' on thousands of computers called servers located in every counry in the world.

To web is thus made up of,

• Personal computers to view it.
  
• Browser software to access the Web.
  
• A connection from an ISP Internet service provider like AOL.
  
• Servers that host all of the data.
  
• Routers and switches that control and direct the flow of data.
  
  

To find web pages they are given a (Uniform Resource Locator) URL address. This is the location of a web page. You reach this address by entering it into your web browser's address bar or by clicking a link to it. A common place to find links is search engines and directories.

The common form of a web page is a document written in a computer language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). However other forms of documents such as PHP and ASP are becoming more common to create web documents in.