Monitor

Mouse

Keyboard

Cursor

Icons

Web Browsers

Valley Oaks Uses Google

Chrome

Internet Window

Web Address Bar

Search Bar

Tabs

URL

• URL stands for Universal Resource Locator. • It is the address of a web page. Each page has

its own unique web address (URL). This is how your computer locates the web page that you are trying to find.

• www/http/https

www

• World• Wide• Web

Much like your home address, these are the beginning of a web address.

http

• http stands for "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol", the primary technology protocol on the Web that allows linking and browsing.

• https is "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol" with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), another protocol primarily developed with secure, safe Internet transactions in mind.

Different types of web pages• .com– Community

• ANYONE or group can form a community webpage

• .gov– Government run website

• Usually city, county, and country government officials such as

• .edu– Education

• Schools

• .org– Organizations

• Groups of people working toward the same cause or belief