As in, the University campus backbone. A type of software that allows you to navigate information databases. An optical disk from which information may be read but not written. The computer providing the services is a server. C-U Prairienet is one example.
People can connect from home through their modems, or at their libraries, businesses, or schools.
You'll be able to transfer these files from the Net to your own computer using gopher and Mosaic, for example. You'll also be able to use these to copy text files and some programs to your mailbox. The document displayed when you first open Mosaic. Home Page also refers to the first document you come to at a Web site. An acronym for HyperText Markup Language, HTML is the language used to tag various parts of a Web document so browsing software will know how to display that document's links, text, graphics and attached media.