Starting to use the WWW (World Wide Web)
Available Software
lynx (UNIX): Text-only Web browser, with only simple formatting
and no embedded images or sounds (this makes it very fast and ideal for use over
modems).
xmosaic (UNIX - XWindows): Well designed Web browser with fill
support for styles, images, sounds, and interactive forms.
NCSA Mosaic (Macintosh): Personal Web browser with support for
styles, images, and sounds. It is the recommended Web client because of its
functionality and accessibility.
Mosaic Netscape (Macintosh, Windows): Related to NCSA Mosaic,
but with many improvements and bug fixes. The current release of the software is
a free on a trial basis and for nonprofits and education institutions.
Connecting
Each page on the Web appears as a complex document that integrates styled text,
images, sounds, and animations. Such page may also contain hyperlinks to other
Web documents such that clicking on these hyperlinks jumps you to a new page on
the same or different Web server.
Basic Concepts
World Wide Web, WWW: The online collection of documents that
are interconnected by hyperlinks, forming a virtual "web" that spans the
Internet. A Page: Any document on the Web.
Home Page: The document that provides a starting point or
organizational center for any collection of documents.
Personal Home Page: A document that describes the owner, such
as interests, activities, and more. Such a page often has links to other pages
of interest.
HyperText: Any text that contains hyperlinks to other
documents.
HyperLink: A word or phrase that is identifiable from
surrounding text. Clicking on such text will bring up the destination document
that it is "linked" to. Standard hypertext appears a underlined text, in either
Blue (untraversed) or Red (traversed).
HotLink: When a user finds a document that contains interesting
or useful data, he can save the information to find that document again into a
special list of hyperlinks known as hotlinks.
HyperText Markup Language, HTML: Documents placed onto the Web
are created using HTML, a language which describes the layout, contents, and
links of such documents. HTML files are simple text files with embedded style
tags, and currently there are no native HTML editors.
HyperText Transport Protocol, HTTP: A network communications
protocol for identifying, sending, and receiving Web documents.
Browser: Client software for viewing Web documents and
navigating hyperlinks to other documents. Helper Application: If a browser does
not support an embedded image or sound format, it may use a second software
package to open and view the embedded file.
Uniform Resource Locator, URL: These provide a uniform naming
convention to a wide array of Internet services such as Electronic Mail, Network
News, Gopher, and WWW. Back to
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