Introduction to the Internet

1. ESL 52
Easy Introduction to Internet Sites

2. Some Internet Sites are on the World
Wide Web:
http://www.macroevolution.net/suffix-pre
Some Internet sites are not on the
Web:
https://grammar5laney.wordpress.co
m/quick-grammar-review-handouts

3. Every site has a domain name: this
is the part of the URL between the //
and the first /. For the URL
http://www.macroevolution.net/s
uffix-prefix-dictionary.html
the domain name is
www.macroevolution.net

4. Every site has a Home Page, or
Main Page:
http://www.gov.bw/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu

5. Other pages are linked to
the home page. These are
called “internal links.”

6. Map of a Site
Home
Page
Web
Page
Web
Page
Web
Page
Web
Page

7. When you go to internal link, it’s
like turning the pages of a book.

8. You know that you have reached an internal
link because the domain name, the part of the
URL between // and the first /, is still the
same:
http://www.gov.bw 
http://www.gov.bw/en/News/CONTR
OLLING-HUMANWILDLIFE-
CONFLICT-REMAINS-
CHALLENGE/

9. Sometimes, when you click on a
link, it will take you to a
completely different site.
This is called an external link:
http://eperalta.org/spring2016/course
/view.php?id=4133 
http://betterlesson.com/community/d
ocument/183911/you-can-grow-
your-brain-doc

10. Now you have left the site and gone to a new one:
Home
page
Internal links
External
link

11. It’s as if you put the book back on
the shelf and picked up a new
one.

12. You know that you have reached an
external link because the domain
name in the menu bar has changed.
http://www.eslcafe.com 
http://www.bridgetefl.com

13. http://discovermagazine.com/2004/fe
b/why-aids-worse-in-africa
When you work on your citation for an
online source, you must be able to find
the the Home Page or Main Page, as
well as the internal link that you are
actually using.