Learn about the Internet and the Web

The networks and the Web have become an integral part of high energy physics. High speed networking makes research more economical and productive -- enabling scientists to collaborate as if they were together in a "laboratory without walls". Scientists can share scientific information with colleagues around the world, witness experiments as they happen thousands of miles away, and access state of the art on-line information and services.

Let's get started. Select from the menu at left and the content will appear in this window. The menu will stay in place, so when you want to go on, you can select another item from the menu. This page is called "Web Intro" - in case you want to return to it.

You may not know it, but the Intenet had its origins in the 1960's as a project of the Department of Defense and the World Wide Web had its origins in the 1990's in high energy physics. You can learn more about this history by selecting Web History at left. To indicate just how much the Internet and the Web has brown, the map of the world below shows all of the countries connected to the Internet in green.

If you want to learn more about how to use the Web, select Using the Web at left.