Roll the trackball or move the mouse to control the arrow which appears on your screen. When you move the arrow over hypertext, it will change into a pointing finger. You may click the left-most button on your trackball or mouse to connect to a new document, called a Web page. Most browsers include buttons on the screen to help you move through the Web and also display status messages throughout the connecting process. Accessing large files may take a long time.
Most web browsers have some way of showing that retrieval is in progress.
In Netscape, the logo in the upper right corner of a night sky has shooting stars while a document is loading, and messages at the bottom left corner of the screen tell you what action is being taken. To stop a document from loading, click on the rotating globe. This does not always work, however. Linking to other documents means that you actually connect to and use the computer on which that Web page resides, whether it be in another state or even another country. This means that once you leave the Web pages developed by your home site, no one at your home site has any control over the content or stability of the documents you reach.