The Web is a network of computers all over the world . 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 .