What is the difference between "upload" and "download"?
Down, down, downloading, uploading What am I doing? How does this happen?Directions in terms of your interaction with the Internet, ver,y very simple. Anything that comes to you on your computer: your Aunt Millie sends you some photographs of her niece, your niece and her daughter, whatever the case may be. And you want get that picture on your computer, then your downloading it. Your taking if from up there on the World Wide Web and your bringing it down to you. If you're creating a webpage or perhaps posting a picture on the internet on one of many many sites that you can find allow you to host your pictures so Aunt Millie and her friends can see them, then you would be uploading that picture, taking it from your computer and sending it up there, the World Wide Web. If it's going from you to a host or service on the internet then it's going up. It's being uploaded from you and away. If it's coming from there and to you then it's being downloaded. At the simplest level downloading can be when you've encountered a link that says 'click here to download this' and if that link is working properly you should be prompted as to where you want to save that object. And as your saving that object it is literally streaming and coming down to your computer from the internet. Downloading can also be something that you do when someone sends you an attachment on your e-mail. And if you have a hosted kind of e-mail such as you might Yahoo or Google then you will have to download that attachment from up there, on the World Wide Web to you.
