title: The Internet and World Wide Web explained.
abstract: Most people have by now heard of the Internet. Its presence is advertised via newspapers, magazines, television and radio. The Internet offers exciting new opportunities for information exchange and medical photographers and illustrators should be exploiting the potential of these services. This article seeks to explain what the Internet is and how the World Wide Web makes access to the Internet comparatively simple. It also attempts to demystify the jargon and explain how you can connect to the services on offer.
authors.affiliation: Audio-Visual Centre, The Medical School, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D008488:Medical Illustration