ADVICE

Computer Soup's policy is of information dissemination. We believe that it is important to educate our customers and allow them to question us about anything they are unsure about. So please feel free to ask us any questions when we visit you. For the time being please find some useful advice and terminology that it would be useful to familiarise yourself with.

BROWSER

The browser is a program that can read HTML code and format the pictures and text to appear correctly onscreen according the users preferences.

HTML

This the computer language used tell a browser how to display web pages on in a browser so it can be universally read the world over.

SPYWARE

As you surf the web and allow the interative images and web pages to load up we leave ourselves open to malicious scripts and codes that can alter our settings and even disconnect us from the internet. Spyware is the most common cause of our internet issues. Computer Soup are able to remove this problem and ensure you avoid falling foul of the spyware menace in the future.

THE INTERNET

The internet is the background architecture that we utlilise to connect to anyhere in the world via a computer. Born out of military and academic origins in the early sixties it uses a multitude of rotes to send information across the globe and its design means that its cost is not geographically dependant as is the case with the telephone system.

THE WORLD WIDE WEB

This a a series of interlinked web pages that a user can navigate to find information about any given subject. It was invented by Tim Berners Lee whilst working for CERN in switzerland during the early 1990's as way for people to universally distribute information. Originally for scientific purposes it has grown into commercial status and It is the web along with email that we have embraced most over the last decade.

THE WORLD WIDE WEB VS. THE INTERNET

The internet can be considered the backbone and infrastructure of our daily communications use. Soon there will not be one area of our lives that is not in some way touched by it's capabilities. The best analogy is to compare it to a supersized global motorway. The cars that you will be most familiar with that drive on this motorway are E-mail and the World Wide Web. This means that are entirely differnet entities to the internet. So in short if the internet is