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Once your browser loads "homepage.htm" you can select the option to read this file, or you can enter the Encyclopedia.
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This CD-ROM based book was designed with you, our gentle reader, in mind. We endeavored to create a product that is both educational and easy to use. Also, we constructed the HTML documents that make up this Encyclopedia to be fully compatible with every major computer platform (or at least, any platform that supports a Web browser).
With this disc in your computer's CD-ROM drive and a Web browser, you have access to all of the following elements:
To get even more out of this CD-ROM, a PPP or SLIP Internet connection will allow you to access online resources, including:
Throughout this CD-ROM, you will find links to online resources that can provide you with current information, and launch you into the heart of the universe of the World Wide Web.
Throughout this work, you will find cross-links, indexes, internal anchors and external URLs that allow you to jump from one resource to another, located on this CD-ROM and out on the Internet. You should find the hypertext in this work both enlightening and informative, but you will need to understand our navigation methods to use this CD-ROM effectively.
As listed on the Navigation Buttons page, each WWWE page has navigation control buttons. These buttons are defined uniquely for each page. The two buttons that you may find a bit confusing are the (BACK) and (NEXT) buttons. These buttons are linked to their respective previous or following pages within the current page collection. For example, on a word definition page, the (BACK) button is linked to the alphabetically prior term, but on a topic page, the same button is linked to the Topic list or the previous page of tutorial/topic documentation. Generally, these buttons are not required to navigate the WWWE. We included them to permit you to scan quickly through the word definitions and the longer tutorial pages.
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Because the Internet is so dynamic, it's inevitable that some of the URLs included here will become stale, obsolete, or non-existent. When you try to follow a link that is no longer functioning, or points to a resource different from the one you expect, you can easily locate newer, more up-to-date information by using a search engine. Here are a few suggestions to use when trying to locate replacement URLs:
If that doesn't work, try searching on related terms or concepts. If you keep broadening your search, you'll eventually come up with something!
The World Wide Web Encyclopedia CD
by Ed Tittel and James Michael Stewart
Copyright 1996 CHARLES RIVER MEDIA, INC.
Rockland, Massachusetts 02370
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