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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.

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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