Our computer is now connected to the Internet, in theory, but nothing magic seems to be happening. Keep in mind that there are many different makes and models of each Internet software utility for your computer as I describe them below. The WWW is the fastest growing information resource on the Internet. A Web browser is the program you run on your PC to find and view these multimedia documents. Just as the underlined, colored text in Windows' Help files jumps you to another help screen with related information, a Web hypertext link jumps you to another multimedia Web document somewhere else on the Internet.
Most Web browsers are also powerful and versatile enough to view other common Internet resources.
Browsing a Gopher information site on the Internet is very similar to finding a file on your computer with the Window's File Manager. The difference is that Gopher uses longer, more descriptive names for the files and folders than a PC allows. To browse through a Gopher site, you click your way through a set of directories till you find an interesting file. This file must then be downloaded from the remote Gopher computer somewhere on the Internet to your hardrive for viewing. An alternative to connecting to a Gopher site for downloading a file is to connect to a File Transfer Protocol FTP site.