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- The World-Wide-Web
-
- The World-Wide-Web (WWW) is the much-touted hypertext
- interface to a wide range of internet resources. On the Exec-PC
- Internet Gateway, we have the Lynx WWW browser. Lynx is text-based,
- which means you won't be able to view the imbedded images. This is
- not as much of a handicap as you might think; many areas of the Web
- have been designed with both text and graphics users in mind. In
- Lynx, the arrow keys move between hypertext selections, and "h" brings
- up comprehensive help. The hypertext selections are boldfaced, but if
- your terminal does not show boldfacing, then just press the arrow
- keys, and you should be able to see individual selections.
-
- The joy of browsing the Web is just going from place to place,
- following the links until you find something interesting, which is
- bound to have links to somewhere else that is also interesting. If
- you find a page on the Web that you like, you can press "a" to add it
- to your bookmark file. Then later, perhaps another day, you can press
- "v" to view all your bookmarks, and jump right to your favorite
- places.
-
- Every page on the Web has a unique name, a URL. A URL looks
- like this: "http://info.cern.ch", which, in this case, is a page in
- Switzerland. If you read news, or perhaps talk to other people out
- there in net-land, you might see URLs posted for things you want to
- see. To go to a specific URL in Lynx, just type "g", and then type in
- the URL, and away you go!
-
- If you have questions regarding the World Wide Web, or using
- Lynx, don't hesitate to leave mail to help.
-
- **Note** You MUST be using a VT100 terminal emulation to use
- Lynx. In fact, we recommend that you use a VT100 emulation whenever
- you call this system. If you find that the arrow keys on your
- computer do not do what they should, there is a good chance that your
- VT100 emulation does not handle the arrow keys correctly. If this is
- the case, feel free to send mail to help, and we will do what we can
- to help you get things working properly
-