Now that we’ve got some understanding about what the internet is and isn’t, let’s talk about this thing we call a browser. Because your computer needs to be told what to do, it can’t do anything meaningful on the internet unless you tell it what you want. For example, if you want to look at a web page, you need some way to tell your computer what to ask for. How do you do this? For many of you, you simply click on the blue "e" on your desktop and type in the address of the webpage you want to visit, or click on a bookmark link. (more…)