You need to set up an account with an I nternet S ervice P rovider - they act like an exchange. By connecting to your ISP, you open your lines of communication to the World Wide Web. Pages on the web are viewed using a web browser. The most popular browsers are Netscape Communicator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer . New, and more capabable versions of these browsers are being developed continuously.
People designing web sites often design for the newest versions of the browsers.
This means it is important to keep uptodate. You can obtain the latest version browsers from the web sites of Netscape and Microsoft free of charge. A web page is a file located on a computer known as a web server. The file will have a name such as mypage.htm . To see this page you need to call it either by clicking on a hyperlink with your mouse or by typing the name of the file and its location in the 'address' or 'location' bar at the top of your web browser window.