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World Wide Web (WWW)

    The World Wide Web is a way of viewing online information available on the Internet.  The user can navigate and browse through information which has been hand-authored or partly computer-generated from existing databases and information systems.

The Web today incorporates information from systems such as Gopher  and WAIS  as well as sophisticated multimedia and hypertext information from many organisations.

There are two different commands which can be used to access the Web: mosaic for X-based screens or www for line mode terminals.

The reader may find the CERN home page within these two browsers of particular interest because they can find information on the Unix Workstation Support (UWS) group. By looking at the UWS pages the reader may also find a link to the man pages of various systems. The URL gif for the CERN Home Page is
http://www.cern.ch/





Alan Silverman
Wed Apr 12 16:54:02 METDST 1995