Internet

The World Wide Web is accessed through a web browser, an application that runs on the user's computer. The Browser allows the user to receive text, graphics, sound and animation. Using special additional software called 'plug-ins' it is possible to do even more sophisticated things like listen to live music, watch videos, move around three dimensional worlds, and the list continues to grow all the time.

A basic web page is written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) which uses simple tags to format text and make links to other resources. Below are some simple examples of HTML tags:

<b>makes the text between the tags bold</b>

<i>puts the text in italics</i>

<img src="picture.gif"> inserts an image from the source file picture.gif
HTML also allows the user to jump from one web page to a related web page somewhere else in the world by clicking on specific words.