What is the World Wide Web and what makes it work?

The WWW incorporates all of the Internet services above and much more. You can retrieve documents, view images, animation, and video, listen to sound files, speak and hear voice, and view programs that run on practically any software in the world, providing your computer has the hardware and software to do these things.

When you log onto the Internet using Netscape or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or some other browser,

You are viewing documents on the World Wide Web. The current foundation on which the WWW functions is the programming language called HTML. It is HTML and other programming imbedded within HTML that makes possible Hypertext. Hypertext is the ability to have web pages containing links, which are areas in a page or buttons or graphics on which you can click your mouse to retrieve another document into your computer. This “clickability” using Hypertext is the feature which is unique and revolutionary about the Web.

A browser is a computer program that resides on your computer enabling you to use the computer to view WWW documents and access the Internet taking advantage of text formatting, hypertext links, images, sounds, motion, and other features. Netscape and Internet Explorer are currently the leading “graphical browsers” in the world (meaning they facilitate the viewing of graphics such as images and video and more). There are other browsers (e.g. Macweb, Opera). Most offer many of the same features and can be successfully used to retrieve documents and activate many kinds of programs.

The main way in which browsers differ is the convenience features they offer for navigating and managing the Web and all the URLs you may want to keep track of.

5. Find Russian equivalents to the following Russian words and word combinations in the texts:

Прослеживать, графический браузер, форматирование текста, гипертекст, давать возможность, изображение, движение, звук, облегчать просмотр графиков, активировать программу, извлекать преимущества, включать в себя, удаленный компьютер, только текстовый метод, кликнуть мышью, звуковые файлы, запускать любое компьютерное обеспечение, принимать

почту, обеспечивать информацией, водопровод, информация, хранящаяся в файлах.

6. Answer the questions to the text.

1. What is the Internet?

2. What are the main Internet services?

3. Why is it wrong to say “the document was found on the Internet”?

4. What is the function of the World Wide Web?

5. What computer language is used in the WWW?

6. What are links used for?

7. What is a browser?

8. What kind of browsers do you know?

9. How do browsers differ? Do they have any similarities?

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