Anything from databases, newspapers, and library catalogs, to business, financial, and government information, college, organization, and corporate sites, to your next-door neighbor's personal web page can be accessed on the Internet. The resources are also in many different formats such as text, pictures, videos, and sound. These resources can be accessed through either a text-based browser such as Lynx, or through a graphical browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Web combines text, graphics, and media, and it makes navigating the Internet very easy to do. Information is located on web pages that can be connected by hypertext links.
Links can be text or graphics, and can connect to other text, graphics, animation, or sound.
Information located on the Internet can be found through the use of search tools, such as directories or search engines, such as Yahoo, Excite, or Alta Vista. Every page on the Web has a specific address that is used to locate it. Pages on the Web can be accessed through a link from another page, or by directly typing in the URL of the page. The domain portion of the URL indicates what type of organization owns the web site. In the above example, the .net indicates that TIAC is a network type of organization.