Now, you know that was Patrick's line. Let's take a look at how WWW browsers work. Visit all three planets in the vicinity of this paragraph, and explore its life forms. A text browser puts a menu on your screen, that looks a little like the Gopher menus that we saw last week. I doubt if you will use a text browser much, but it is a good thing to know that it is there, and what it looks like.
Some people still prefer searching the Web for information, with a text based browser.
I'll talk a little more about how you can access a WWW browser in a few minutes, but I first want to show you what a basic Web page looks like. The Browser that my service provider uses is Lynx, and it is a text browser. If you use the WWW menu item on the FIM FIRN menu, this is what you will get. Finally, in real life, my browser highlights the links by making them a different color than the rest of the text. Just as I can access an item in a Gopher menu, by pointing at it and selecting it, I can access a WWW link, by pointing at it and selecting it.