World Wide Web and Internet Tutorials
Learn how the Internet works and what it takes to get that cute picture to your browser...
How the Internet Works in 5 Minutes
The internet is not a fuzzy cloud. The internet is a wire, usually buried in the ground. Aaron Titus takes you on a journey, showing how your computer "talks" to the rest of the Internet.
- YouTube URL
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LPdttKXPc
Webonauts Internet Academy
Webonauts Internet Academy is on on-line game from PBS that gives kids 8 to 10 years old an opportunity to have some fun while exploring what it means to be a citizen in a web-infused‚ information-rich world.
The game teaches how to be safe and act respectfully online. The game addresses key issues central to good citizenship: identity, privacy, credibility and web safety.
How Search Works
Matt Cutts from Google explains how search engines work. Everything from spiders to quality ratings to the ads.
- YouTube URL
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs
The Total Number of Websites
How big is the Internet? How about almost a billion web sites!
This page shows the growth of the Internet and the year some of your favorite web sites first appeared.
Explore a Google data center
Wonder what "the cloud" really looks like. Here's a look at a Google data center, one you can explore yourself, on the web.
- YouTube URL
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0
Root Data Center
Here's another view of a data center. Who knew that the Internet included man traps, a kitchen, cooling towers, and bathrooms ... keeping your data secure and the tech people happy.
- YouTube URL
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejZml3dozOs
W3Schools Tutorial
Interested in the details? W3Schools has a wide range of free, in-depth tutorials for all things Internet -- from beginning HTML to Cascading Style Sheets to XML, programming and Web Services. Recommended by our webmaster.
While specialized network skills are no longer needed, it's nice to have an idea of what's going on when things "don't work".
