MSN Web Surfing Basics

You can think of the World Wide Web as a big library on the Internet. Web "sites" are like the books in the library and web "pages" are like specific pages in the books. A collection of web pages is known as a web site. You start your journey through the web from a particular web site.

A "home page" is the starting point for a web site. It is something like the cover page or the Table of Contents of a book.

Each web page, including a web site's home page, has a unique address called a Universal Resource Locator (URL). This page's address is http://www.msn.com/tutorial/surfing1.html

A "browser" is a software tool that you use to look at web pages. You are using a browser right now to look at this page.

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