Kids Web is a digital library for schoolkids that is part of the 
World Wide Web, a global collection of computers containing multimedia 
information that can be accessed over the Internet using a Web browser
such as Mosaic, Lynx, or Netscape.
Kids Web can be found by entering the URL (Web address) 
http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb.

The ambitious goal of the World Wide Web project is to make available 
all of human knowledge through global computer networks acting as a vast 
distributed electronic library. The Web contains multimedia information
(text, images, sounds, movies) and is based on hypertext, a simple 
point-and-click way of accessing this information. The Web already 
contains enormous amounts of information, and is growing incredibly 
rapidly. However only a fraction of this information is of interest to
school children. Finding this information using standard Web digital
libraries and search mechanisms can be very time-consuming and 
frustrating, especially for kids.

Ideally the students should be presented with a subset of the Web that 
is very simple to navigate, and contains information aimed at the K-12 
level. This is the goal of Kids Web. Each of the subject sections
contains a list of links to information that is understandable and 
interesting to schoolkids. There are also links to more comprehensive
lists of material on each subject which more advanced students can 
browse for further information.

Kids Web grew out of a computer multimedia class based on the World Wide 
Web and Mosaic which was taught to 8th graders as part of the 1994 Young 
Scholars Program at Syracuse University. It is being developed as part of
The Living Textbook project, which applies high-performance computing 
and communications to K-12 education.