The World Wide Web, a.k.a. WWW or the Web, was originally developed by physicians to exchange data and research information more quickly and efficiently on the Internet. To access the Web, you need to run a browser program. The browser can read the document, retrieve documents from other sources, access files and download them, and search other documents and databases. Lynx, Microsoft Explorer and Netscape are names of some of the more popular browsers in use today.
Lynx is used for text based searching and can be used on almost any terminal or computer.
This is the browser that is available on the Sun computers. Netscape, probably the most popular of the graphical interfaces, needs to be loaded on higher speed computers in order to search and display their information. If you wish to use Netscape to view the Web with its graphics and formatting, you can use the computers in thc Macintosh lab. Although it may take a while to load, your command is connecting you to the Web site at the University of Kansas. You can explore that site by highlighting the KUfacts selection and pressing enter.