World
Wide Web
The World Wide Web is by far the most well
known and widely talked about feature of the
Internet. When most people refer to “surfing
the web” or “going online”
they are really talking about utilizing the
Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to access
web content via their web browsers.
What most people don’t
know is that the Internet is built around
a naming scheme that uses unique, numerical
IP addresses, similar to telephone numbers,
to identify places (or nodes) on the network.
This is done through Domain Name System
(DNS). When you type in a Web address, like
cybershouts.net, your Web browser resolves the
alphabetical address through HTTP down to
the numerical, physical location on the
Internet, thus providing the World Wide
Web (WWW).
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