As Internet access becomes more widespread, you can count on the fact that virtually everything is available somewhere on the Web. It is cheaper to publish on the web and it does represent a wide range of interests and difficulty levels. To be viewed by the user, WWW documents are written in HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML creates a page that allows the user to just click the mouse on an item that is of interest to them. Hypertext documents are displayed in a desktop publishing mode that is practical, fun and pleasing to the eye.
Many sites incorporate images, sounds and even animations.
Links can be easily tracked with the point and click method allowing the user to move effortlessly all around the complex web of pages. The W3 consortium at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, promotes standards and encourages interoperability between WWW products. The most popular browsers on the market can be purchased in computer or office supply stores and are available for download from their commercial sites on the Internet. Usually, the latest beta test version is available and the latest full support release is online. The three biggies are Netscape, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and the Mosaic browser.