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:

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.


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.

Using Mosaic and other World Wide Web browsers
How to access and run Mosaic and other Web browsers.

Creating hypertext documents using HTML
How to create multimedia hypertext documents for Mosaic, using HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

Finding information on the World Wide Web
How to search for information on the Web.

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