All the computers in the Web can communicate with each other . All the computers use a communication standard called HTTP . Web information is stored in documents called Web pages . Web pages are files stored on computers called Web servers . Computers reading the Web pages are called Web clients .
Web clients view the pages with a program called a Web browser .
Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator . A browser fetches a Web page from a server by a request . A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address . All Web pages contain instructions on how to be displayed . The browser displays the page by reading these instructions .