If you are unable to see certain images, hear sounds, or play movies while you're crawling the web, you may need additional helper applications. Or, you may not have enough RAM to run the web browser and helper applications simultaneously. Or, if you have a PC, you may not have the necessary sound and video cards. In general, RITO does not support helper applications other than those for telnet and ftp . Most people at Radcliffe are using the web browser Netscape.
Web browsers can read a number of different protocols, specified in the URL .
The browser also allows you to navigate from link to link, traversing the Internet or exploring one site with each mouse click. Technically speaking, one page is one computer file that has been marked-up with HTML codes. To a person using the web, a page is that unit that you can scroll through using your web browser 's scrolling tools. A web page has a top and a bottom, a beginning and an end. The conglomeration of home pages, pages, images, sound files, and moving image files at one main or root address may be referred to as a web site.