Web Browsers and Web Pages on the Internet

Each company's web server is inside its respective enterprise networks in Figure 2-6. Because each company has a connection to an ISP, Fred and Barney can connect to the web pages and browse the contents. To browse these web pages, Fred and Barney must each bring up the web browser software on their computers and point to the Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the website. The URL is a string of characters that uniquely identifies a particular web page. Sometimes, people refer to the URL as a web address. For instance, when Barney puts http://www.cisco.com into the right place in his browser, his browser asks for the web page of Cisco Systems. Figure 2-7 shows the Cisco web page.