If you are reading this on the Privacy Commissioner's web site then
you are using a browser to access the web. The language used to
mark-up or prepare material for the web is called HyperText Mark-up
Language (HTML). HTML documents contain the blueprints for displaying
a web page. The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) allows web sites
and your web browser to communicate and exchange documents, pictures
and sound. Individuals, companies and governments set up websites
which can be viewed with browsers. Companies, universities, libraries
and some government organisations, sometimes called Internet Service
Providers (ISPs), have set up systems of computers called web servers
which contain (or host) these websites.
