Author:
Lon W. McDaniel
Internet 4 U

World Wide Web (WWW)


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The World Wide Web (WWW) is global, interactive, dynamic and based on hypertext links. Cute graphics too!

The WWW is dependent on hypertext links. You have no doubt seen hypertext links without knowing what it was. If you have used a help-function in Microsoft Word or in Coral Word Perfect you will have seen how clicking on a word takes you to something else (text, information, or whatever).

That is hypertext in action.

The WWW can do things that a help-function can only dream about. You can click on CNN and find yourself inside a computer in Atlanta, Georgia where you can peruse the latest news updates on the most recent world tragedy.

Or, you can click on a picture of the comics hero Ernie, and find yourself inside his fan club. The WWW is a lot more than just hypertext.

Perhaps hypermedia is a better word for it. At CNN you can click on a sound file and listen to a report or a speech. Or, you can click on a video file and see some CNN-footage direct from the scene. You can even save these on your hard disk (if you have room!) And, it is free of charge.

The WWW can save on your phone bill too. With a sound card and a mike you can use your computer to make internet phone calls. Anybody with the same equipment and an internet account can talk to you and listen to your answer. A nightmare for the phone company! The quality is not as good as it can be, but that will improve with the speed of your internet connection.

Why not try a Dick Tracy? You can see people you talk to! Mount a small video camera on top of your computer and use a video-conference program. The picture quality is not impressive as of yet, but it will no doubt improve quickly.

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