Name: 【TED-Ed】What is the World Wide Web? - Twila Camp
Uploaded: 2014-06-03T10:22:17.000Z
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We use it from our computers, our phones, even our cars.

Well first of all, the World Wide Web is not the Internet,

even though the terms are often used interchangeably.

The Internet is simply the way computers connect to each other

computers actually made direct calls to each other.

The communication enabled through the Internet

such as email, file transfer, and conferencing.

Think of the Web as a bunch of skyscrapers,

a computer always connected to the Internet,

specifically designed to store information and share it.

they are renting a room in this skyscraper,

in an organized way for others to access.

with the right equipment a bit of know-how.

There's another part to having a website,

without which we would be lost in the city

a website address lets you get where you want to go.

When we find the website we're looking for,

our web browser is able to take all the code on the site

and turn it into words, graphics, and videos.

We don't need to know any special computer languages

because the web browser creates a graphic interface for us.

We might have to pay an Internet service provider

or a registrar to reserve our web address.

these companies provide crucial services,

each sentence was read from beginning to end,

in a straight line until you reached the end.

But that isn't how our brains actually work.

Each of our thoughts is linked to other thoughts,

in a loose interconnected network, like a web.

Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web,

understood that we needed a way to organize information

And the Web accomplishes this through hyperlinks.

By linking several pages within a website

or even redirecting you to other websites

to expand on information or ideas immediately

to operate along the same lines as our thought patterns.

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【TED-Ed】What is the World Wide Web? - Twila Camp

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