What's A Download?

When you want to read or see something from another computer (or community of computers like the internet) you have to load it onto your computer. In computerese, you have to download it.

As you have gone through these lessons and looked at various web pages, you have been receiving files from the internet. In other words, every time you get information from the web you are downloading information (When you send information to another computer on the web, you are uploading).