Introduction

When you first open the web browser it will automatically load a “homepage” – usually that of the browser’s manufacturer. E.g. Internet Explorer will load the MSN homepage. Most people find this irritating and change the default homepage setting to something they are more interested in like weather reports, stock exchange info or their favourite [...]

What is the Web?

The World Wide Web is like a huge electronic magazine with its pages stored on many computers (called “servers”)
around the world. Pages on the web are connected by links called “hypertext“.
Each hypertext link jumps to another page… so unlike reading a book where one page follows another in sequence, on the
World Wide [...]

It’s the cold war and the US government had a problem; if we have a nuclear war how are we going to maintain communications? If one city is destroyed on the US eastern seaboard, all communications in the east [...]