  
Surfing the CCIS
Net Web
Sites
The “World Wide Web
”, “WWW” or “Web” for short, is
the fastest growing communication medium in history. The web is a network
of servers that contains hypertext documents. Web ‘pages’ can contain
information in the form of text, graphics, images, animation, sound,
video, and even interactive light-weight applications (or applets).
Portions of the text or pictures may contain “links” that will allow you,
once clicked by mouse, to move or “surf” to another document or ‘page’.
Every web page has an address, so that you can easily locate it at a later
time. This address is called a “URL
”.
To access the web and “surf”
you need to run a “Web
Browser” program like Netscape
Navigator, Internet Explorer
, etc.
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Note:
Previous sections contained
URL
addresses that you can visit
by using the Web
.
To cope with the emerging
Intranet and information sharing technologies, CCIS
net has been providing Web
pages and services for
Students, faculty members, and even guests from the outside world.
In this section, we will show
you how to utilize such service.
In those labs, you’ll find
icons for Internet Explorer
3.0+ or Netscape
Navigator 3.0+, which you can
run. Once it’s running you have to type a URL
address at the top of the
window.
8.2 Accessing
the Web
from the
Linux
lab
·
log
into your Linux
account,
·
run
X-Window
: startx
(if not already in X-Window)
·
at the
“xterm
” window type:
netscape www
this will activate
Netscape
™ Navigator™ and will
immediately load and display the Linux
lab homepage
http://www.yahoo.com/
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Note:
You can also run Netscape
™ Navigator™ from
Start/Applications/Netscape.
You can surf the Web
from home too:
·
You have to first
get a Web
Browser program, like Internet Explorer
3.0+ or Netscape
Navigator 3.0+ and install it in your
system.
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