Getting Started with Mosaic and HTML
Mosaic is a simple "point-and-click" interface to multimedia information
on the Internet. It is based around a system of networked information
servers known as the World Wide Web. The Web provides pointers to documents
stored on computers all over the world, using a hypertext document format
known as HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
The interface to Mosaic is a little different depending on whether you are
using it from a Unix workstation running X, a Macintosh, or a PC running
Windows.
However to get started, all you need to know are the very basics:
- Clicking on highlighted (different color and/or underlined) text, known
as hyperlinks, will display a new document.
- Clicking on the Back button will take you back again.
- The scrollbar at the right of the Mosaic window allows you to scroll
down the page.
- There is a Help pulldown menu containing a Manual
with on-line documentation to help you with the other features
of Mosaic.
To find out more about Mosaic, how to use it, and how to create hypertext
documents you can display using Mosaic, simply click on the appropriate
highlighted phrase below.
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An overview of the World Wide Web and Mosaic
- Find out more about the Internet, the World Wide Web, hypertext and
hypermedia, and the history and future of Mosaic.
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Using Mosaic and other World Wide Web browsers
- How to access and run Mosaic and other Web browsers.
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Creating hypertext documents using HTML
- How to create multimedia hypertext documents for Mosaic,
using HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
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Finding information on the World Wide Web
- How to search for information on the Web.
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Mosaic and the World Wide Web at NPAC
- How to use and contribute to the NPAC WWW servers.
Other useful information
Paul Coddington,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, paulc@npac.syr.edu