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The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a collection of documents that contain not
only text but also the Internet addresses of other documents, so
that you can easily find and read those documents even though
they're not all located on the same computer system.
A Web browser is a program that displays and interprets such Web
documents. On SCN, the browser available is "Lynx." It is made
for use on text-only terminals, but lets you download graphics
and other non-text files to view them on your home computer.
The Web address of a document is called a URL (Uniform Resource
Locator). It looks something like this: http://www.scn.org/
Web documents are called pages. They are text with added HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) tags in triangular brackets, like
these:
SCN - Frequently Asked Questions. HTML tags
can link a page to other documents at the same location, or send
you around the world to read a document or use an online program
on another computer.
Questions: help@scn.org