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Browsers

Netscape
Currently the most popular browser, Netscape Navigator brings Web exploration, email, newsgroups, and FTP capabilities together in one package.
Internet Explorer
Microsoft's browser is a close contender to Netscape Navigator and features many of the same bells and whistles.
Opera
A small byte size foreign made browser

The Home Page
A "home page"(in HTML carrot html carrot, carrot.../index.html carrot) is the first page you see when you first arrive at a WWW site. Home pages characteristically provide an overview to everything in the site, and are useful reference points for navigating around inside that location.

General Navigation
The majority of links from this site point to computer hosts operated by others. Clicking on their links connects you directly to their computer, which may in turn provide many other links which connect you to many other computers. The most reliable way to get back to this site is to pick one of our pages to add to your "bookmarks" or "hotlist". By storing the address for a site in your computer, you can easily reference the site from a menu on your browser. Most often, people choose to save the address of a site's home page.

Another way to quickly return (if you haven't gone through too many other pages) to a web site is to use the "back" command. This command is typically found in the toolbar at the top of your browser. The "back" command helps you re-trace your steps through the past few pages you've just visited.

"Refused" Connections
If you receive a message saying "connection refused by host", it probably means the site is servicing many other connections at the moment (the Internet equivalent of a "busy" signal). No, you haven't broken anything; the best thing is to try accessing the site at another time.
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World Wide Web (WWW)
The World Wide Web has become a world wide phenomena -- creating a whole new industry of content providers and an explosion of information on the Internet.
Where other Internet applications rely on one's knowledge of Internet addressing, hierarchical directory structures, and the application's own (sometimes wierd) set of commands, WWW applications let you click on words - or pictures(icons) - to get to where you want to go or what you want to do. The coding that supports links to a variety of information is known as "hypertext". Often confused with the Internet, the WWW is actually the sub-set of computers around the world that are connected with hypertext.
this page was last updated 7 October, 1998