The document discusses the Internet and how it connects computers globally through wires like phone lines, forming a network similar to roads connecting cities and towns. It describes some common uses of the Internet like email, research, shopping, news, and games. It then defines several Internet-related terms, including the World Wide Web (WWW), browsers as software programs to view web pages, search engines to search the Internet, URLs as unique web page addresses, domains indicating site types, and HTML as the language used to create web pages.