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There are basically two ways to navigate on the World-Wide Web. The first is to follow links from one page to another; the other is to use URLs (Uniform Resource Locators; see "Alphabet Soup" for more details).If you follow links, you simply select a highlighted word or image that looks like a promising lead (you select it in a graphical browser like Netscape by pointing with a mouse cursor and clicking the mouse; with a text-based browser like Lynx, you tab to the phrase that indicates a link and select it with the Return key). Your action tells the client program running on the computer at your end to follow the link; it reads the URL and makes the connection to the new location, whereupon the new page is sent to your computer and displayed for you. Unless you look behind the scenes, you may not have any idea where the new location is -- and you don't need to.
It's sometimes faster to use the URLs more directly, by typing them in at the appropriate place in the browser -- at the command line, or at a menu item such as File/Open Location. The browser then makes the connection, and displays the designated page.
In either case, you can create a bookmark when you get to the location; the bookmark saves the title of the page and the URL in your computer's files, so you can quickly return to the same location when you want to.
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Posted 18 October 1995. Revised 30 January 2004.
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