Please help me explain how the internet works?

Question

There seems to be devices call them computers and they are linked up to a "web" now this web has source codes in it, than can be visited by putting in a URL, but how is it this web holds all these "source codes" (?), and how is it that I am able to travel from one sight to another exactly? What is going on there electronically?

Answer 1

Basically the internet and how computers act with it are very similar to phones.



The url code is like the phone number of a website (or really, computer that hosts the website)



The internet it like the network your computer uses to conntect to the website.



And the website itsself is like what you would hear coming from the other side of the phond call.



What you click or type on that website it like what you say on the phone.

Answer 2

Each compute has an IP address. Messages go onto the net but only fall into the computer with the intended address. Think of those shape ball. Only the X block will fit into the ball through the X shape.

Once the message comes into your computer, it is then handled by the appropriate program like email or browser, its decoded and displayed on your screen. You do not see the IP address because that does not need to be displayed.

You see these message packets contain lots of information that we do not need to see, but they direct and confirm that they are going to the right place.

Answer 3

The WWW or World Wide Web, is nothing more than a huge network of networks, either attached by wireless communications, satellite, fiber optics, and what not. What happens when you type in a website URL Uniform Resource Locator, on your end you send a request to the other end server if the request is accepted then the data from that server is sent to your end. I like to thing of this process like when you ping a computer on a LAN local area network, if the ping is good, then information can be exchanged, if the ping is not successful the nothing can be exchanged. There is really no traveling involved, just data transfer.

Answer 4

check the given url please



http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page12966.cfm

Answer 5

I'm a web programmer. Each website is different. Some use html, xhtml, php, php html, flash, JavaScript, and so on. So, to set up a website, you need a web host where the servers are connected to be one site and start programming. The source code is like a command.

Answer 6

When you punch a url into your browser, your computer first contacts your local DNS (domain name system) computer, usually hosted by your internet provider. This computer resolves the name you typed in to an IP address, which might looks something like 123.45.67.890. This number is like a address and points to the computer that hosts the website you are trying to access. Your computer sends out a request to that IP address. This request travels in small groups of information called a packets, analogous to an envelope. The packet will pass through tens, possibly hundreds of special computers called routers. Routers direct your packets to the IP address you requested, or forward the packet to another router which can then pass the packets to its destination, or possibly to another router. What you end up with is a pathway through a bunch of routers to reach your final destination. When the packet reaches its destination, say, answers.yahoo.com, the computer there will respond by sending your computer the webpage you requested. This information is broken up into packets and sent back over the internet the same way that your packets did. When these packets reach your computer, they are reassembled into the webpage you wanted to see.

Source code is something entirely different. Source code is the code that is used to compile (make/build) computer software. The compiled software is what makes routers and web servers possible, however the internet does not run on source codes.

Answer 7

each website is hosted on a server. the internet is basicly a highway that connects all the servers and computers in the world. each website is run off a computer dedicated to host that webpage. when yuo type a URL like www.youtube.com, it brings you to youtube, but typing that in prompts alot of computer riff raff that i dont evne understand that gets you there, its just simplified in the adress for the average joe. it would be like if your computer was a phone, and the URL of any webpage is the phone number. each number connects you to another phone to make a call, but on a computer that other phone might be a website, or an online game, and the network is what connects it all