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Chapter 2: Using the Internet
Using the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a multimedia window to the Internet that gives you access to
millions of information sources.
Information on the Web comes to you on Web pages, which are electronic documents that
you view using a Web page display program called a browser. You can use any of the
commercially available Web browsers, like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator.
Web pages can contain text, animations, music, and other multimedia features. A group
of related Web pages is called a Web site. You can access Web sites to shop, track
investments, read the news, download programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site or visit other Web sites by clicking areas on a Web page called
links or hyperlinks. A link may be colored or underlined text, a picture, or an animated
image. You can identify a link by moving the mouse or touchpad pointer over it. If the
pointer changes to a hand, the item is a link.
To learn more about using the Web browser features, click
Web
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page
www.gateway.com
Help
Link
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