In This Chapter What is the Web?
Using Mozilla Using Konqueror Finding great Web pages The World Wide Web (WWW, or just the Web) is the zoomiest, coolest Internet facility around. It contains lots of information, including pictures and other non-text stuff, in the form of hypertext. As you read through the information, therefore, you can click (or otherwise select) words, pictures, or buttons to zoom right to related information. These clickable words, pictures, and buttons are called links. The amazing thing about all these linked pages is that a page may be stored on any Internet host computer in the world. If you’re looking at a page stored on a computer in Brookline, Massachusetts, a link on that page may jump you to a page stored in Basel, Switzerland. You never even notice, unless you look carefully at the names of the Web pages.