This information can be made up of many different types, including text, graphics, sound and video. To help you understand this system, consider many rooms, all with things inside them - information, pictures, some with sound, a few with video clips. Each room has doors, some with many doors or with only one door. The World Wide Web is just like this. The different rooms are different web pages and the doors are the links.
Links can be text or graphics.
Web browsers read these files and display them so they can be read on the computer screen. If you need more information about these, look at the Getting Connected section. You will need a Web browser which is computer software that displays information retrieved from computers on the Internet. When you use a Web browser you can select which pages of information you would like to have displayed and easily move from page to page. The main tasks of a web browser are to display Web pages link to other Web pages download required information to your own computer.