Then you can read about the http standard here. Hypertext documents are put together using html or hypertext markup language. You can read more about HTML to learn more about this standard. On the client side the system uses browsers to view these hypertext documents. Browsers are applications that understand http and other Internet protocols like telnet, ftp, gopher, WAIS, archie, news, and mail.
Browsers exist for a variety of computer p latforms.
There are currently browsers for the UNIX, VMS, MS-Windows, MAC, and Amiga computer systems. Here is a screen shot from Mosaic one of the more interesting WWW browsers showing one of the more interesting WWW sites. Mosaic is perhaps the key browser that has helped the World Wide Web gain its enormous popularity. Mosaic was the first browser to come out with version for the UNIX, MS-Windows, and MAC platforms. Copyright 1995 Ken Hensarling.