As we explained earlier, the Internet is a collection of computers (sometimes called servers) located all over the world and connected together by telephone lines. The World Wide Web is a rather large subset of these computers which are linked together in a web-like fashion -- hence, world ... wide ... web. Generally speaking, each of these computers is called a 'Web site'.

When you see a page on your screen, it came from a Web site that could be anywhere in the world. It might have come from a Web site located in Edmonton, Montreal, or Fredericton, or perhaps New York, Paris, or Tokyo.

When you click on a link and receive a page, you don't actually need to know which Web site that page came from or where (geographically) that Web site is located. That is the beauty of the Web. It's one big inter-linked, well, web! You can get Web pages from all over the world by simply clicking on links to them with your mouse.

(You can also learn about finding Web sites, and accessing a specific Web site.)

What is a Web page?

What is a home page?