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 The World Wide Web (WWW) is one of the newest services on the Internet. In fact if you're using Netscape or Mosaic, you're on the Web right now. The Web is a collection of computers that serve documents, documents like this one. These documents contain links to other documents and other documents contain links back. If these pages and links were to represented graphically they would resemble a web. This along with the fact that there are web servers on every continent give rise to the name World Wide Web. The Web, like the Internet, is maintained by its participants. Discovery Net maintains its portions as do other organizations. New organizations can create Web pages and put them on the Internet with the help of Web hosting organizations like Net Direct Inc. The Web is huge. How does anyone find anything? Thankfully there are companies that create indecies and provide search engines. Although no Web index can be complete, the searches usually find more information that you need. The next time that your looking for something try one of these Web sites: |
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