Webs R Us

Wow! Surfing the web, as I have shared earlier, is so much a part of our lives, we rarely think about where this stuff comes from....


Web pages, web slices, RSS Feeds - WHAT!?! Portals and browsers and URL’s – OH MY! 


Basically, with the sophistication of the web, have come a slew of updates, improvements and “tools”. So.... 

ISPs (Internet Service Providers) read our IP (Internet Protocol) address via our browser and connect us to other IPs via Web portals. Web portals like Yahoo! or MSN look rather like consolidated newspapers – a LOT of information on one page. They are “link rich” in that almost every section offers links to more web pages and other web sites.


To facilitate our browsing, the numerical IP addresses have been “named” – a domain name is it’s “pen name” It’s much easier to remember yahoo.com than say - 56.78.153.81. And each web page has a URL (Uniform Resource Locators). Each link connects us to a URL. And these are stored on Web Servers. Most web sites pay a company or someone to manage their information – update, correct or improve the information or look of the site.

From Microsoft Office

Once ALL that has been achieved – usually within seconds and the click of a button - you can start searching or “surfing” the web….  


THEN – you can customize and save, print and e-mail, open a new tab or even go Home!
You can even buy groceries!


And I have a feeling that what we can do today will be dwarfed by the what will be capable of in the future – Jetson’s here we come!