INTERNET: STEP 1

The following four pages are from the Library publication, "INTERNET: STEP 1: A Free Introduction to the INTERNET Offered by the Library for the Novice" (5/22/96)

WHAT IS THE WORLD WIDE WEB?

Known also by the terms: Web, W3, or WWW
Developed in Geneva, Switzerland by scientists at the CERN Physics Laboratory
Software used by individuals to "surf" the web are known as " clients" or " browsers". Netscape and Mosaic are two popular browsers.
Relies on hypertext and hypermedia as its means of interacting with users. Hypertext is basically the same as regular text with an important
Easy to browse (just point and click)
Graphical images makes browsing or "surfing" enjoyable and fun

SOME NECESSARY TERMINOLOGY

Home Page: the opening screen of a Web site
Universal Resource Locator (URL): the technical name of a Web address. Camden County Library's Home Page URL is http://www.cyberenet.net/~ccl
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP): the language that Web clients and servers use to communicate with each other to transfer hypertext or hypermedia files (usually identified by the extension of .html or .html)
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML): the programming language that makes hypertext files readable by all computers running WWW client software

SKILLS TO PRACTICE

Select a site or file by URL
- Navigate directories with function keys (back, forward, home, reload, etc.)
Download documents
Search the Web with at least 3 search tools (e.g. Webcrawler, Yahoo, Lycos)
Find text within a document
Learn more about the Internet from an informative site or directory that you find yourself while "surfing"

http://www.clerk.net/pub/lschank/explore/www.html

URLS TO TRY

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