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Introduction to the World Wide Web
How to "Surf" the Web
The term “surfing” is often used to describe the way newcomers to the Web skip from one Web site to another, either looking for information or following the hypertext links within documents. To be able to enter a Web site the address (URL) has to be entered in the “Location” or “Address” box of your browser and then either pressing the “Go” button with the mouse or pressing the “return” key.
If the surfer is not looking for a particular site, a good place to start is a directory, e.g. if you type www.yahoo.com into the address box on your browser you will visit the Yahoo directory. Once you reach the directory site, your screen should look like the one shown below. Type the phrase or name of what you are interested in finding out about, in the box with the flashing cursor, then press search. Once the search has finished a list of Web sites related to your chosen phrase should appear, double-click on one of these to visit.
Once the surfer is on a Web site, if they Mouse-click on any words on the page that are underlined and highlighted like this, they will jump to another related Web page. The reason for this is that underlined words on Web sites are hypertext links, which jump you to other related pages, on the same site, or another site.
When pressed, the "Back" button, returns the user to the previously visited page. This is possibly because the browser automatically saves all the Web pages you visit to your hard-drive (the disk cache) so you can immediately go back without having to reload them.
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