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  1.                               World Wide Web
  2.  
  3.           The web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents and
  4.           indexes distributed among many of the computers on the Inter-
  5.           net.  It is powerful because it transparently uses all the
  6.           resources of the Internet to present you with an end document.
  7.           It is best to run your own web browser, but if you do not 
  8.           have one you may telnet to any of these public bowsers.
  9.  
  10.                                 Public WWW Browsers
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  12.             Where            Address                  IP Address
  13.           ----------------------------------------------------------------
  14.             Finland          info.funet.fi            128.214.6.102
  15.             Israel           vms.huji.ac.il           128.139.4.3
  16.             Switzerland      info.cern.ch             128.141.201.74
  17.             Kansas, US       ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu     129.237.1.30
  18.             New Jersey, US   www.njit.edu             128.235.163.2
  19.             New York, US     fatty.law.cornell.edu    132.236.108.5
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  22.                         WWW Line Oriented Command Summary
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  24.             Command          What It Does
  25.           ----------------------------------------------------------------
  26.             help             List available commands
  27.             [number]         Jump to link #[number]
  28.             back (b)         Jump to previous document
  29.             previous         Jump to previous link in previous document
  30.             next             Jump to next link
  31.             go [URL]         Jump to Universal Resource Locator
  32.             recall           Display list of previous documents
  33.             home             Jump to starting document
  34.             top              Jump to top of current document
  35.             bottom           Jump to bottom of current document
  36.             up               PageUp
  37.             list             Show list of links within current document
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  39.  
  40.           WWW URLs
  41.           --------
  42.           W3 keeps track of it's resources by using an addressing scheme
  43.           called the Universal Resource Locator.  An address looks like:
  44.  
  45.               http://cui_www.unige.ch/cgi-bin/htgrep/file=W3catalog
  46.  
  47.           You can go straight to this web "page" by typing go [URL].  As
  48.           you can see, though, you do not want to do this frequently, since
  49.           it is a lot of typing.  Most browsers will let you save URLs
  50.           as bookmarks, much as gopher bookmarks.
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