Let's say you were reading a magazine and ran across this:

When Kiplinger's tried to book a round-trip flight between New York and New Orleans in September, along with a two-night stay, we turned up a wide range of prices, even for the same hotel. Travelweb.com--the new booking site owned by five major hotel chains--listed a bargain nightly rate of $165 for the luxurious Ritz-Carlton, compared with a rate of $335 on Expedia and $175 through the hotel reservations desk.

From an article titled "A SITE-SEEING TOUR," written by Lynn Woods and published in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Sept 2003, p. 24+

From what little you know about the Web, you think that Travelweb.com and Expedia ought to be places you can go to on the Internet. Maybe you'd like to explore some bargain prices on your own.

How do you do that?

First, a little background about Internet addresses.

Sites on the Web are identified by unique URLs -- Uniform Resource Locators.

URLs have 3 basic components:

protocol	domain name	file name
how-to-get-there://where-to-go/what-to-get specifically

http://	hypertext transfer protocol	http://libwww.cabrillo.edu Cabrillo College Library homepage
telnet://	protocol for signing into another computer	telnet://melvyl.ucop.edu/ University of California online library catalog
ftp://	file transfer protocol -- to transfer files between computers	ftp://ftp.archive.org/pub/etext/etext00

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the networked hypertext system that allows resources to be shared over the Internet. Hypertext refers to text that can be linked. When you click on a hypertext link, your computer contacts the computer on the Internet that has that resource and returns a copy to your screen. The abbreviation for hypertext transfer protocol is http:// Since Web resources comprise most of the Internet, the protocol http:// is supplied by your Web browser if you don't type it in.

URLs are often in the format http://www._________.top-level-domain

File names for resources on the Web end in .html or .htm. This stands for hypertext markup language, which is the formatting language used to create Web pages.

The Internet is a shared, distributed network. No one owns the Internet. There are groups that are very involved in developing it, e.g., the World Wide Web Consortium and The Internet Society.

So -- after that introduction, can you think how you can use the information in the excerpt from the magazine article, above, to actually go to the Web resources it mentioned?

The first was Travelweb.com

Its URL is___________________

The second one mentioned was Expedia

Its URL is____________

Want to check your answers?

Now, just to be doubly sure, try out those URLs. Here's how.

To get to a new Web address:

1. The current URL is at the top of your screen
2. Click on the URL to highlight it,
   
3. Type in the URL you want to go to, and press the Enter key

That's all there is to it!

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
2. Click on Library & Internet Instruction (3rd icon from the bottom, on left)
3. Click on 1. Web Workshops for Fall 2003

Topsy N. Smalley last rev. 10/04/03