2 English for Information Technology A2-B1 Vocational English Teacher’s Book

 

Internet browsing 

This section looks at internet browsers and web 

addresses. While the terms the internet and the 

World Wide Web (usually shortened to ‘the web’) 

are often used interchangeably, knowledgeable 

students may raise the point that there is actually a 

significant difference. Technically, the World Wide 

Web refers only to pages that can be viewed in a 

browser, whereas the internet includes email along 

with several other ways of sending information, 

data and files between computers such as VoIP 

(Voice over Internet Protocol), which services such 

as Skype use. The internet developed from 1960s 

computer networks such as ARPANET (used by the 

US military) and networks in the UK and France. 

One of the systems for transferring data used on the 

internet (called protocols), HTTP (hypertext transfer 

protocol), developed by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert 

Cailliau at a research institution in Europe, became 

the basis of the World Wide Web.  

Some other items mentioned in this section are: web