You may want to see if Lynx is available on your host computer, and if not, ask your system administrator to get and install it. With Lynx you cannot view graphics or listen to sound clips, but you can read hypertext, place the cursor on highlighted words using the arrow keys and move around the Web by pressing the enter key. Lynx is much faster than Mosaic because it does not transfer the large files needed to display graphics or produce sound on your computer. Some people who have both Mosaic and Lynx choose to use Lynx because of its speed. In many cases, the text content is much more significant than the graphics and sound.
All Web servers have what are called home pages.
The Web home page corresponds to the root directory in gopher. The http stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and is the equivalent of the Web server address. There may be some graphics, an IEEE logo, a photograph, a pie chart, for example. These we will not see if we are using Lynx.