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Using the World Wide Web
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Using the World Wide Web
The WorldWide Web is a multimedia window to the Internet that gives you
access to millions of information sources.
Information on the Web comes to you on Web pag e s, which are electronic
documents that you view using a Web page display program called a browser.
You can use any of the commercially available Web browsers, like Microsoft
Internet Explorer (which comes installed on your new notebook), Netscape
Navigator, or the browser built into America Online.
Web pages can contain text, animat ions, mus ic, an d other multimedia featur es.
A group of related Web pages is called a Web si te. You can access Web sites to
shop, track investments, read the news, download programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site or visit other Web sites by clicking areas on a Web
page called links or hyperlinks. A link may be colored or underlined text, a
picture, or an animated image. You can identify a link by moving the mouse
pointer over it. If the pointer changes to a hand, the item is a link.
To learn more about using the Web browser features, click Help in the menu bar.
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