No, the web is not an amusement park ride. But when people talk about being ``on the web'', it may sometimes sound like it. So where is this web, anyway?
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The answer is, the web is everywhere. Also called the ``internet'' or the ``net'', the ``web'' is simply a network of computers. Rather than an attraction having a specified geographical location, though, the internet is a connecting web which enables communication between a whole collection of computers around the world. Thus the term World Wide Web.
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So the web is a system of connecting wires and fibre-optic cables scattered around the world. Phone wires form a significant part of this network, as computer modems often communicate using phone lines. Some signals are sent in the form of light waves, and fibre-optic cables are buried under the ground to carry these signals.
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