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Above you is a screen shot of the Internet Explorer Menu, Toolbar and Address area (You may find that your Internet Explorer Toolbar and Address area may be exactly the same because it depends on how the Internet Explorer is set up and the version you are using. You can customise it to display the tools you want). The Address bar shows you where you are located on the world wide web. Each Web page has a specific address, sometimes known as a URL (uniform resource locator). You can type the address to go directly to the page.

The popular way to move around the internet is by clicking text or pictures called links, or hyperlinks, which have addresses coded into them. Your mouse pointer changes to a hand shape when it is over a link. You can either browse the internet randomly or search for a page of interest to you by using a search service, which can search the Internet for words you typed in.