The World Wide Web is a global hypertext system. Hundreds of information servers are available to you around the world. Several browsers are also available to scan the information located at the various Web servers. Mosaic is one example of a browser. Each highlighted phrase (in color and/or underlined) is a hyperlink to another document. For example, you can click here for more information on hyperlinks.
In order to use the Help menu and access other home pages on the internet you will need to be running some form of TCP/IP network.
A Home Page is your starting point for using Mosaic. It should provide a map of frequently travelled places, as well as a reference point - that is, someplace you can return to quickly and easily if needed.
You are now looking at a document called decw$utils:home.html, which is a sample home page. To view the sources for this page, select File then select View Source....
Feel free to edit this file and add your own information, addresses, hyperlinks etc. Once you have a TCP/IP network running you can use the help menu to get a variety of information on setting up your own home page and how to use HTML, the markup language used by the World Wide Web.
The following Usenet Newsgroups will provide further information on the World Wide Web :
For more information on Mosaic refer to the NCSA Mosaic Demo Document .
NCSA Mosaic was developed by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This version is based on Enhanced NCSA Mosaic developed by Spyglass, Inc.