Using the World Wide Web
The World Wide 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 pages, which are electronic documents that you view using a Web page display program called a browser. There are many Web browsers that you can use, one of which is Microsoft Internet Explorer, which comes installed on your new computer.
Web pages can contain not only text, but animations, music, and other multimedia features.
A group of related Web pages is called a Web site. 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 the 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, select Help in the menu bar.
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