Getting Started on the World Wide Web


The World Wide Web is a system of networked information servers on the Internet. The Web provides access to multimedia information (text, images, sounds, movies) stored on computers all over the world, using a hypertext document format known as HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

The documents on the Web servers are accessed using Web clients, or browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape. These are simple "point-and-click" interfaces to the Web and other parts of the Internet such as ftp and gopher servers, Usenet News, email, etc.

To find out more about the World Wide Web, how to use it, and how to create hypertext documents on the Web, click on the appropriate hyperlink (highlighted hypertext phrase) below.


Guides to the Internet and the World Wide Web

Information about the the Internet, the World Wide Web, hypertext and hypermedia.


World Wide Web browsers

Information on how to download and run various World Wide Web browsers.


Creating hypertext documents using HTML

How to create Web documents using HyperText Markup Language (HTML).


Web libraries and search engines

How to search for information on the Web.


Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, paulc@npac.syr.edu. Last updated 24 May 1997.