Document Access

The text you are currently reading is contained within a page or document. A document can be in textual only, perhaps contaning images, or might support an interactive search facility. It is also possible to download sound over the Internet (you'll need speakers of course). However, there is a lot of free software available in relation to the Web.

Browsers

The software that you are running in order to read this document is defined as a client. It is also termed as a Web browser by the WWW community of users. Various browsers exist for various machines and operating systems. Probably the most well known browser is NCSA Mosaic, developed by the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (at the University of Illinois, USA), which has been tailored for various platforms. Dept Users will be using Mosaic for Windows.

Servers

Web browsers retrieve documents from a source known as a server. Web servers are machines which run the WWW server software that has been implemented onto it. Server software is available for various machines and operating systems. There are many WWW servers set up across the globe, containing information on all kinds of subjects from academia to recreational.

More Information

If you want to, you can seek out more information on Web browsers and servers in a short while via a link to CERN. However, before we let you loose there are still a couple more documents to be read.

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