The Defense Department wanted to permit communications to continue across the United States, even if a disaster or conflict destroyed parts of the network. The Internet contains several different parts one of them being the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web was the brainchild of CERN researcher Tim Berners-Lee. Users with a World Wide Web Browser are able to view sites throughout the Internet that contain text, images, sound, animation and video. They navigate though the Web by clicking on highlighted text or images, called hyperlinks, jumping site to site.
Most Web Browsers allow users to bookmark sites that they like so they can return easily.
Other capabilities of most browsers include E-mail, Newsgroups, and the ability to download files. Typically, information is found on the WEB through the use of search engines . A search engine is a complex site that tracks many of the sites on the Internet. From these sites the user would type a keyword that they are searching for and the search engine will return all the sites they have indexed that contain that word. These Search Engines work in different ways to acquire their database of addresses.