You may use either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape as your web browser. Both are available throughout campus and are also available as a free download from Netscape or Microsoft's Internet sites. The computers that hold such information and wish to make it available via web browsers must run a special program called a web server . The web browser is a client program and runs on the user's computer. Every computer on the Internet has a name called a host name .
Information stored in HTML format is stored in or accessed through units called web pages .
In simple terms the World Wide Web is the collection of all the web pages and their hosting computers across the world that are connected via the Internet. Information acessed via web pages may be text, graphic images, music or other sounds or even video. A URL has several components. The first of these is the host name. This specifies the computer.