3 Exploring the Internet

Exploring the Internet written by John Lockyer

World Wide Web Tasha and her family use their computer every day for all kinds of things, like writing letters and making pictures and charts. But Tashds favourite thing is exploring the Internet. She knows that the World Wide Web is a place where people can see cartoons, hear music, read the news, visit libraries and museums, get useful information, and even look out the window of a space shuttle.

The World Wide Web is like a huge library. It is full of information about almost anything you can think of. You can find out about things that happened yesterday, or last month, or even thousands of years ago. There is information about people, places, sports, animals, machines, and all kinds of other things. All the information is on web pages or websites. The Internet connects computers all over the world like a giant spider's web.

Search engine If Tasha wants information about the planets, she uses the Internet to help her. She starts with a search engine. Almost anything on the Internet can be found with the help of a search engine. Tasha types the keyword planets into the window of the search engine. Then she moves the cursor onto the Go or the Search button, and she clicks on the mouse.

Surfing the net In a few seconds, the screen shows a list of thousands of different websites about planets. Tasha clicks on a website that looks interesting. She reads about the earth, the moon, and Mars. Then she clicks on the Back button to go back to the list to choose another website. Tasha goes from one site to another. She is surfing the net.

Favourites Tasha sees pictures of the planets on the Internet. She finds out which one is the smallest and which one is the largest. She watches a video of a space shuttle landing back on earth, and she even hears the voice of an astronaut. Tasha finds a lot of interesting information on a website about Mars. She thinks that she might want to learn more about Mars later, so she clicks on the Favourites button. Then she clicks on Add and saves the Mars website in the Favourites box. Now she can find it easily whenever she wants to look at it again.