It's also handy for use in scripts. If you want to use a WWW browser from home, you'll need to get an Enhanced Dialup account from the University. The CS department is not involved in giving out or supporting off-campus dialup. These are the best starting points for finding things on the web. Search engines allow you to enter in keywords to search for.
Indices have lists of pages organized by topic.
Yahoo has a search engine, but its well organized indexes are sometimes the easiest way to find information on particular topics. Alta-Vista Google . Sometimes when you click on a link in Netscape, you're prompted to save the file to disk. This is because the file type is one which Netscape doesn't know how to handle. This file contains a series of lines, each of which represents a different Mime-Type , which indicates a type of file that you might download from the web.