Questions and Answers from Handout 3

This is the answers to an assignment in my Instructional Technology Class

1. What is a URL? What do different parts of a URL mean?
*URL is a Uniform Resource Locator
*http:// means that the web browser and computer communicate in Hypertext Transfer Protocol
*www means it is located on the "World Wide Web"
*the domain name identifies which web server (computer) hosts the site.

2. What is a server?
*The computer that hosts the site and downloads the files to your computer once your web browser requests the information.


3. What is a Web browser?
*The program used to communicate with the web server and to assemble the page on your screen


4. How does the Web work?
*You type in a URL which identifies where the site is at or which computer or web server hosts it. Using hypertext transfer protocol, the browser sends a request to the web server on the internet. The web server locates the files and downloads them to your computer. Your web browser then assembles the page on your screen.