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- <TITLE>Mosaic and the World Wide Web</TITLE>
- <H1>Mosaic and the World Wide Web</H1>
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- <P>Though there are many ways to find and use information on the Internet, Mosaic is unique
- in that it is designed to work with the World Wide Web (Web).
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- <P>Like other Internet components, the Web is an information-sharing system that allows
- documents to be stored on and retrieved from servers along the network. Unlike other Internet
- components, the Web uses the powerful information technology called hypertext.
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- <P>On the Web, hypertext works as follows: Every document has a unique address, much like a
- telephone number, called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL for this document, for
- example, appears in the URL field at the top of this window. Any Web document can contain
- hyperlinks that point to the URLs of other documents.
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- <P>Mosaic lets you find and display Web documents. If you know a URL, you can
- simply enter it in the field at the top of the Mosaic window and then press
- Return to open that document.
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- <P>The beauty of Mosaic, however, is that it allows you to
- explore the Web interactively by simply clicking on hyperlinks. A document on British
- literature, for example, can link the word "Shakespeare" to another document
- listing all the writer's work by title. Each title in that document can, in
- turn, be linked to the complete work.
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- <P>The best way to become acquainted with vast and ever-growing resources of the Web is to explore.
- A good way to get started is to click on the Starting Points link below for a
- sampling of destinations, indexes, and search tools.
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- More about the <A HREF="http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html">World Wide Web</A><p>
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