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Almost

everyone with or without a computer is aware of the latest technological

revolution destined to change forever the way in which humans communicate,

namely, the Information Superhighway, best exemplified by the ubiquitous

Internet. Already, millions of people around the world are linked by computer

simply by having a modem and an address on the “Net”, in much the same way that

owning a telephone links us to almost anyone who pays a phone bill. In fact,

since the computer connections are made via the phone line, the Internet can be

envisaged as a network of visual telephone links. It remains to be seen in

which direction the Informational Superhighway is headed, but many believe it

is the educational hope of the future.

The World

Wide Web, an enormous collection of Internet Addresses or sites, all of which

can be accessed for information, has been mainly responsible for the increase

in interest in the Internet in 1990s. Before the World Wide Web, the “Net” was

comparable to an integrated collection of computerized typewriters, but the

introduction of the “Web” in 1990 allowed not only text links to be made but

also graphs, images and even video.

A Web site

consists of a ‘home page’, the first screen of a particular site on the

computer to which you are connected, from where access can be obtained to other

subject related ‘pages’ at the site and to thousands of other computers all

over the world. This is achieved by a process called ‘hypertext’. By clicking

with a mouse device on various parts of the screen, a person connected to the

“Net” can go travelling, or ‘surfing’ through a web of pages to locate whatever

information is required.

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