Hopefully you know by now that the Web and the Internet are not the same thing, but rather the Web is a function or part of the Internet. The Web began at CERN, a particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland in 1989. Tim Berners-Lee invented the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) which enabled linking from page to page, and set the Web apart from other networked computer files. By late 1990, CERN had developed a Web server and a text only browser. Originally envisioned as a text-only feature, hypertext swiftly began to allow graphics on the Web and access to applications in virtually any medium. The Web seemed to burst into the national consciousness overnight -- suddenly Web page addresses became commonplace in print and TV ads, and having a personal home page was almost as necessary as a cell phone to signal being current. Excellent WWW resources:

• Learn the Net: How the Web Works
• CERN Web Services

Everything you need to know about the world wide web:

• Web browsers
• Search engines & strategies
• Privacy and Internet safety
• Evaluating Internet resources
• Citations for Internet research