Summary

Now that low-cost access to the Internet has been established through dozens of commercial service-providers users are demanding new and better ways of using it. Responding to these needs, this book introduces you to the World-Wide Web, a system which cross-references resources on the Internet for fast and easy retrieval, and Mosaic the graphical browser and so-called 'killer application' that has opened up the Internet to experts and novices alike. You do not have to be an Internet expert to use Mosaic or the World-Wide Web, indeed the Web allows transparent access to well-known Internet services such as ftp, telnet, Gopher, WAIS and USENET, all through a common easy-to-use interface. Mosaic's ability to integrate with many third-party programs allows it to cope with a variety of audio, visual, and textual formats. This book tells you how to make it work for you. Viewers and browsers allow motion video, still picture retrieval, audio extracts and much more besides! This book will help you to download, install, and get up and running with a variety of browsers and viewers. This book will teach you Hyper Text Mark-up Language or HTML. Since nearly all Web client programs, such as Mosaic, understand HTML you can design and publish your own text and then transform it into a complete hypermedia application. With little effort you will be able to build your own Home Page. Let the world know who you are.