Access is provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) - BT, AOL, Freeserve, Pipex, Tiscali They act as 'railway stations', 'post boxes' Access to ISPs is by way of a telephone line and a modem (MOdulator DEModulator) Connections can be dial-up, ISDN or Broadband So, need an ISP, Modem, 'phone line and a browser - Internet Explorer, Mosaic, Opera WWW sites have a Uniform/Unique Resource Locator - URL http:// - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol www. - World Wide Web Domain name Type of organisation eg http://www.bbc.co.uk The country of origin appears in this case at the end (UK), but other endings .com, will not nor will US sites.
ac - academic edu - education co - company com - company gov - government organisation mil - military net - network or internet provider org - any other organisation	au - Australia ca - Canada de - Germany es - Spain fr - France ie - Republic of Ireland jp - Japan
Try these sites - copy exactly BBC http:www/bbc.co.uk  ebay http://www.ebay.com> Tip a cow http://www.nwlink.com/~timelvis/cowtip.html