Labels:book | daily | monitor | reckoner | sky OCR: 0-16 SECTION INTERNET AND WEB BASICS What is the Internet? The Internet is the largest computer network if FIGURE 15 the world, carrying information from one continent to another in the blink The Internet communications an eye F igure 15 The computers connected to this network offer many network stretches around the types resources, such as e-mail, instant messaging, popular music globe downloads and online shopping What the Web? Although some people use the terms Internet and Web interchangeably, the two are not the same. The Internet refers to communications network that connects computers all the globe The Web short for World Wide Web is just one of the many resources available over this commu- nications network The Web is collection of linked and cross-refer- enced information availabl ...
