The World Wide Web contains the millions of different websites on the Internet, each containing lots of information.
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| Web Addresses |
Each website has a unique web address (URL) to identify it. You can get some useful information about a site by looking at its URL:
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| Web Browsers |
To look at information on the World Wide Web you need a special program called a web browser.
If you know a page’s web address, you can type it into the address bar and go straight to that page.
Most web browsers will also let you:
- print web pages out onto paper;
- have a number of different web pages opened up at the same time in different tabs;
- keep a list of sites you have recently visited (your history) so that you can easily go back to them later.
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