Click on the text document called About Victoria University of Wellington's Gopher Server. The document is down loaded into the window. Most organisations which have run gopher servers are now switching to a World Wide Web service. Close Internet Explorer. A WWW server hosts a number of pages.
Pages can contain text, graphic images, sound, video, and links to other pages.
Each WWW server has a host name , and each page has a location address where it resides on the server. A WWW broswer is an application run on a users computer which allows them to view the pages made available by a WWW server. The browser interprets each HTML page and displays the information in a window. In this way, the user can browse each page . Lets cover the toolbar, which you will use a lot when viewing pages on a WWW server.