Students need to know when they're accessing a personal home page. Most Internet Service Providers give their subscribers a few megabytes of free space on a Web server to use as they please. These are equivalent to bulletin boards posted outside an office. But even though clothing tells us a lot about a person the company a person keeps tells us more. Learning how a Web page interacts within the network of all other Web sites is valuable information.
Students have a powerful tool that can place a Web site in context - the link command.
The student will get nothing. It doesn't work. I don't know why, and it could lead them to give up in frustration. For some reason, truncating the URL works . At AltaVista, we find out that 879 Web sites point towards Butz's Web page.