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The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet that consists
of a network of computers, called "Web servers," that host
"pages" of content accessible via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol
or "HTTP." Anyone with a computer connected to the Internet can
search for and retrieve information stored on Web servers located
around the world. Computer users typically access the Web by
running a program called a "browser" on their computers. The
browser displays, as individual pages on the computer screen, the
various types of content found on the Web and lets the user
follow the connections built into Web pages – called "hypertext
links," "hyperlinks," or "links" – to additional content. Two
popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator.
A "Web page" is one or more files a browser graphically
assembles to make a viewable whole when a user requests content
over the Internet. A Web page may contain a variety of different
elements, including text, images, buttons, form fields that the
user can fill in, and links to other Web pages. A "Web site" is
a term that can be used in several different ways. It may refer
to all of the pages and resources available on a particular Web
server. It may also refer to all the pages and resources
associated with a particular organization, company or person,
even if these are located on different servers, or in a
subdirectory on a single server shared with other, unrelated