The majority of Internet information is found on a part of the Internet known as the World Wide Web . The Web is made up of thousands of Web pages, each containing information about a particular topic. Anyone with access to the Internet can create a Web page so there is great variety in the types of Web pages and the quality of information they provide. Web pages are connected to one another by hyperlinks. A hyperlink is an item, either a line of text or a graphic, that you can click on with your computer mouse to move from one place on the Web to another.
Hyperlinks are easy to recognize.
Pictures are also frequently used as hyperlinks. The easiest way to tell if a line of text or a graphic is a hyperlink is to move your computer mouse over it. By carefully watching the screen you will see your mouse pointer turn into a symbol showing a small hand. You can practice this with the hyperlink shown below.