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This document has been created from my in-house handout used to teach the very basics of the web, Netscape browser and search engines. See Help! for online tutorials after reading this.

World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a portion of the Internet. Actually it's the major thoroughfare. Traveling the web is very similar to driving on a highway without a roadmap. You can drive around lost, or you can sightsee through many interesting things and visit fascinating places. Technically speaking the Web is an arena of hypertext documents (web pages) interconnected to each other via links. The web is viewed through software known as Web Browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer. Web pages can include text, images, sound and movies.
Web Browsers
	Web browsers are software that allows you to view hypertext documents on the World Wide Web. Two of the most popular Web Browsers are Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. They are so similar to each other, that learning one you will invariably learn the other. If you consider the World Wide Web to be that endless road of information, then your browser is your travel vehicle. The Navigation buttons and bars are like the dashboard of your car as you cruise the Web. The large space in between, where all the action seems to happen, is your windshield looking out to the web.
Search Engines
It is easy enough to "surf" or "cruise" the Web, jumping from web page to web page randomly site-seeing. However if you are looking for specific address, you will need to know search engines. Search engines are indexes to the Internet, displaying title, web address, and a short description per Website. To use a search engine you have to type into the dialog box what you are looking for in very simple terms. It's very useful to utilize the HELP buttons at the search engine site to better understand the way to search that site. Try these Search Engines!
Web Speak
	Browser- An application that allows you to view documents on the World Wide Web. Popular browsers are Netscape, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Spry Mosaic. Dialog Box- White empty box generally in the middle of the page, with a button next to it saying "search" or "go". Domain Name - Every computer connected to the Internet, including the one hosting your web site must have a unique number that looks something like this 145.33.95.88. The domain name is a text based alias (www.yourcompany.com) that acts as a link to your unique IP address. HTML – Hypertext markup language – the tagging language used to create documents (WebPages) that are read by browsers. Internet– (The Net) - an International network of networks communicating by common protocol. (TCP/IP). ISP – Internet Service Provider – A company that supplies you with dial-up accessibility to the Internet. Java – Programming language developed for creating interactive web pages. Links - (short for Hypertext Links) – Hypertext connection that will take you from one web page to another web page, or to another point in the same page, when clicked on with the mouse. Netscape – Popular browser used to view documents on the World Wide Web. Search Engine – An index to the Internet. There are several search engines to pick from and no standard that guides them. The first and most popular engine is Yahoo (www.yahoo.com). URL – Uniform Resource Locator – (Location or Address) – The web address denotes someone's web page. Web Page – (Website) - Document written in HTML or Java. Most Web pages are put on the World Wide Web, and are read with a browser. Sometimes called a "homepage." World Wide Web - The web is an interconnection of computers with groups of pages or web sites accessed over the Internet. Anyone with access to the Internet can look at these pages with the help of browser software.
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