This allows users on a WEB PAGE to mouse-click on underlined text, linking them immediately with another page with related information. Secondly, the WWW allows for the incorporation of visual elements such as graphics and photographs. While graphics can be transferred through FTP or E-mailed from user to user, nowhere eels on the Internet are they immediately available for viewing. Ways to incorporate sound are also becoming more popular and effective on the Web. Also available are browser PLUG-INS that allow users to download and interact with, view or listen to multimedia files as well as video clips, slide shows, and sound clips.
Some sites even provide live feeds of video and audio.
The URL tells the user's computer how to find and access the particular file which contains the HTML code for the Web site desired on its server. Tells the browser what protocol to use. This tells the browser to read the information it downloads as HTML and translate it into the Web page seen by the user. This represents the computer on which the Web site is located. Once the proper computer has been located, the file must be found.