In 1994 came Mosaic and later Netscape and the world was changed. These made work on the Internet much easier and accessible to the less technologically able. You can move easily between related documents through the use of hypertext links. Most WWW pages have key words or phrases highlighted, usually in a different colour or underlined.
Most people surf the Web looking for pages that contain relevant information.
Unless you know the URL of a Web page you will probably have to search for a topic using a search engine or links page. A search engine is like a form where you type in your keywords and then enter your request. Search engines are giant databases, when your request is entered the database is searched and any relevant documents are retrieved and listed in order of priorities you set. We will be using one of these for this session. They also provide you with a source to refer to after the summer school has finished.