The Big Picture:
In today's day and age, with computers being connected to seemingly everything, it is sometimes hard to keep track of where things are going or coming from. If you have an account with an Internet Service Provider(ISP), you probably have an external storage device. Your e-mail is saved there until you go get it. You can save documents and other data for retrieval by anyone on the web if you have a web page set up.
So how is it all related?
 Picture your ISP as a storage box.
Your ISP is small part of the WHOLE internet.
INTERNET --> Many ISP's --> Many COMPUTER's --> Many FILE's
If you find something interesting on the web you should bookmark the information. We have all book marked pages but what does this tell the computer.
This page is on my university's web site (my ISP). It is available to anyone in the world. The full path name for retrieval is
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/saving/big.html
In this case we are referring to a web page (indicated by the http) so you must retrieve the page from a web browser. The ISP is www.usd.edu, and the path name inside of their storage is in the directory trio - in the directory tut, in the directory saving - with a file name of big.html.
Want to see the other tutorials available here? Try going back in the path to: http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/
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