Navigating the Internet, Third Edition

You'd follow the same procedure to fill in the and a day option list. When you're done, you'd then highlight the third control on the form: Show biographies. This control is a form submit button and selecting it sends the form data to the Web server for processing. A few seconds later, a new page appears showing you the list of people born on the date you choose. Figure 11.4 shows the results for August 23rd, my (Paul McFedries) birthday (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).

Figure 11.4. The results that appear after the form has been submitted.

A Closer Look at the Yahoo Server

• Press the left arrow key until you're back to the home page.
• Type m and press Enter to display the following prompt: Do you really want to go to the Main screen? (y/n) [n]. For prompts like these, the letter in the square brackets is the default choice and you select it by pressing Enter. In this case, press y (for yes), instead.
• Press Backspace or Delete to see a list of the links you've visited in the current Lynx session, as shown in Figure 11.5. Highlight the document you want (Yahoo, in our case) and press the right arrow key.

Figure 11.5. Press Backspace or delete to see a list of the places you've been in the current Lynx session.

While most Web servers are dedicated to a specific topic or a specific category, the Yahoo server is designed to be a general directory of Internet resources. At the time of writing, Yahoo's database of Net resources contained over 35,000 entries and was growing fast.

35,000 sure sounds like a truckload, but, these days, Web documents number in the millions. The Yahoo authors, however, have chosen quality over quantity, so you know most of the links will be worthwhile.

As you might expect, then, the Yahoo home page is jam-packed with links of all kinds. The top line, for example has links for What's New? (Web documents added to the Yahoo database in recent days), What's Cool? (resources that the Yahoo authors think are "cool"), What's Popular? (Yahoo's top 50 categories and documents), and Search (finding stuff in the Yahoo database; discussed in detail below), Help (instructions for using Yahoo).

The nitty-gritty of Yahoo, however, is the list of subject categories. These categories run the gamut from Art to Society and Culture. In each case, the entry shows the number of links associated with the category and whether or not anything new has been added to the category in the last three days.

To get a feel for how things are organized, let's do some surfing. Suppose, for example, that we want to know who directed the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At first you might think we should use the Yahoo Search facility to accomplish this. Unfortunately, Search only covers the titles, URLs, and descriptions of the documents in the Yahoo database, so it isn't likely to be of use in this instance.

Instead, we'll begin our quest by selecting the Entertainment category in Yahoo's home page. Figure 11.6 shows the resulting document.

Figure 11.6. The links in Yahoo's Entertainment category.

There are over 40 different links for the various Entertainment subcategories. The Movies and Films subcategory is the one we want, so we select it. Figure 11.7 shows the result.

Figure 11.7. Selecting the Movies and Films link displays this screen.

Wow! That's a lot of potential movie info (there are over three hundred links in this document). This illustrates one of the big problems you'll find as you navigate the Net: sometimes there's just too much data.

You'll notice that the first three links ( Actors and Actresses, Animation, and Awards ) look like most of the other links we've seen, but the next two are different. Instead of numbers beside them, we see either nothing (in the case of CinemaSpace title page and xcohen reference ) or a description (in the case of the CineMedia Site link). This tells us that these are links to specific files (text most likely).

Our first instinct was to try the Directors link, but that proved to be just a bunch of links pointing to documents about famous directors. No help at all, unfortunately. A better choice might be the The Internet Movie Database. So we give it a shot and get the screen shown in Figure 11.8.

Figure 11.8. Yahoo's links to Cardiff's Movie Database Browser.

There are actually seven links displayed for the Movie Database Browser: one with an asterisk (*), and several others from around the world. We'd normally choose the link closest to us (USA), but we know from reading Yahoo's Help page that sites with asterisks are particularly good. So we select the The Internet Movie Database - UK [*] link. Now, for the first time, we're out of Yahoo and doing some serious surfing. The link took us to a Web server called The Internet Movie Database, located in Cardiff, England. Most of the screen is introductory rambling, so we press the Spacebar to head for the next page (shown in Figure 11.9).

Figure 11.9. The second page of the Internet Movie Database.

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. This page is actually a form with a text entry field that allows you to enter a movie title. (The field is the blank space to the left of the Search for THIS movie title link.) So we type cuckoo and then select the Search for THIS movie title link.

When filling in a text entry field, you can press the Backspace key if you make a typing boner. If the entire field is a mess, you can start over by pressing Ctrl+U.

Why just cuckoo? Well, for three reasons:

• As a general rule, the more words you give an Internet search engine, the longer it takes to process the query.
• The word "cuckoo" is unique enough that it should find the movie we want without matching a million other movies.
• We're lazy and prefer to type as little as possible.

The server chugs away for a few seconds and then displays a list of the movie titles that matched out input string, as shown in Figure 11.10.

Figure 11.10. The results of the search for movie titles containing the word "cuckoo."

Well, hallelujah! There's a link titled One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)! Now, index finger trembling in anticipation, we select the link. Hmmm. The first page shows only the production company, the running time, and a few other useless (to us) tidbits. So we press the Spacebar to move to the next page as shown in Figure 11.11 and—success!—there's the info we needed: The director's name is Milos Forman.

Figure 11.11. The fruits of our labors: this page shows the director's name.

Bookmarks: Navigational Shortcuts

Whew! That was quite a journey just to pick up a little scrap of information. The good news, though, is that we'll know where to go in future if we have a similar query. Actually, Lynx's bookmarks feature can make the journey even shorter. In the same way that we use a real bookmark to remind us of where we left off in a book, so too can a Lynx bookmark "remind" us of places we've visited in cyberspace.

For example, suppose we think we'll be using the Movie Database regularly. We can set a bookmark for it by following these steps:

1. Press Backspace or Delete to display the list of Web documents we just perused.
2. Highlight the link for the main page of the Movie Database (Main Page: The Internet Movie Database at Cardiff UK) and then open it.
3. Press a. Lynx displays the following prompt:
   Save D)ocument or L)ink to bookmark file or C)ancel? (d,l,c):
4. Press d to add the document to the list of bookmarks.

Now, you can head directly to a bookmarked document by pressing v. This displays a list of your bookmarks, as shown in Figure 11.12.

Figure 11.12. Use bookmarks for easy access to your favorites Web sites.

If you'd like to change the order of your bookmarks or edit the name of a book- mark, you can edit the bookmark filing using any UNIX text editor. Look for the file lynx_bookmarks.asp in your home directory. Keep in mind that this is a hypertext document, so you'll see all kinds of strange HTML hieroglyphics. We'll explain what they mean later in this chapter in the section "A Web Publishing Primer."

More Good Web Starting Points

Yahoo is certainly a great place to begin your World Wide Web globe-trotting, but there are plenty of other servers that can get those with Web wanderlust off to a rousing start. Here's a list of a few of our other fave-rave Web stomping grounds:

• EInet Galaxy An extensive list of Web links organized by subject. Top-notch search page with tons of links to other Web search engines and links to reference materials such as a dictionary, thesaurus, weather map, and the CIA World Factbook.

  URL: http://www.einet.net/

• NCSA's Starting Points for Internet Exploration Unlike the other URLs listed here, this one isn't a subject-oriented catalog. Instead, it's just a list of handy resources that can help Web newcomers get organized and Web veterans get started. There are lots of home pages listed, as well as links to Net resources such as WAIS, Gopher, FTP, USENET, and more.

  URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/StartingPoints/NetworkStartingPoints.asp

The NCSA, by the way, is the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. It's the home of Mosaic, the graphical browser that we'll be covering in the next chapter.

• Planet Earth Organized into various "rooms" (e.g., Education, Multimedia) in a virtual library. Each room contains a number of subtopic links that reach out to the Net's resources. For those with graphical browsers, you can navigate by clicking on an image of each room in the library. This one falls into the "quality not quantity" category. Newcomers should check out the Introductory Information link to get their bearings.

  Graphics URL: http://godric.nosc.mil/planet_earth/info.asp
  Text-only URL: http://godric.nosc.mil/planet_earth/info_modern.asp

• Whole Internet Catalog One of the first and still one of the best subject-oriented Web catalogs. Includes a What's New page, a Top 25 page, and an All Subjects page that features over 150 categories.

  URL: http://www.gnn.com/wic/newrescat.toc.asp

• WWW Virtual Library This is CERN's listing of links by subject that we saw earlier.

  URL: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSource/bySubject/Overview.asp

• Yanoff's Special Internet Connections Maintained by net.celebrity Scott Yanoff, this list is one of the oldest and most famous lists of Net stuff. Contains a wide variety of resources (mailing lists, Gopher, FTP, as well as the Web).

  URL: http://www.uwm.edu/Mirror/inet.services.asp 

Dealing with Files

The Web's forte is handling hypertext documents, of course, but most other types of files pose no special problems. In particular, you can use your browser to surf anonymous FTP sites and grab files without resorting to any of those cryptic FTP commands we looked at back in Chapter 8. Even better, your browser will automatically log you in as "anonymous" and send your e-mail address as the password. Why it's almost enough to make FTP fun (almost).

Before rushing in to some anonymous FTP Web sessions, you should tell Lynx your e- mail address. First, type o to select the Options command. In the Options Menu that appears, press p to select the P)ersonal mail address field and type in your e-mail address. Press Enter when you're done and then press r to return to the regular Lynx screen.

As an example, we'll use Lynx to anonymous FTP to rtfm.mit.edu—the repository of USENET FAQ lists. In particular, we'll head for the directory /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers. In Lynx, we press g to get to the Go command's URL to open: prompt. (If the prompt displays a URL from a previous Go command, you can press Ctrl+U to start with a fresh prompt.) We then enter the following URL:

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers

Lynx connects to the rtfm.mit.edu server, logs us in, and then displays the directory as shown in Figure 11.13.

Figure 11.13. Web FTP: the /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers directory at rtfm.mit.edu.

A Lynx FTP screen sports the name of the current subdirectory at the top of the screen and the first link (Up to usenet-by-group in Figure 11.14) takes you to the parent of the current directory. The rest of the screen displays the contents of the current directory:

• The first two columns tell you the date and time the file was last modified.
• The third column tells you whether the entry is a Directory or, if it's a file, what type of file it is (e.g., text/plain).
• The fourth column is a series of links to each file or directory. File sizes are also shown, where applicable.

To open one of the Directory entries, just highlight the link and press the right arrow key (or Enter). When you see the file you want, you have two choices: you can view the file, if it's text (by highlighting it and pressing the right arrow key), or you can download the file to your local computer. For the latter, you need to follow these steps:

1. Highlight the file you want to download.
2. Press d to select the Download command. Lynx gets the file and then displays the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS screen with (probably) a single link: Save to disk.
3. Select the Save to disk link. Lynx displays the Enter a filename: prompt with the file's remote name as the default.
4. If the remote name is fine, press Enter. Otherwise, enter a name yourself and press Enter.

As you can see in Figure 11.13, the list of links in the /pub/usenet-by-group/ news.answers directory is a whopping 17 pages long! This may seem like a big moun- tain to cross if you're looking for, say, the www subdirectory. But you can chop that mountain down to a mere molehill by taking advantage of Lynx's search feature. Press / to display the Enter a search string prompt, type in your string (say, www), and then press Enter. Lynx will immediately jump to the first link that contains the text you entered.

Winnowing the Web: Search Tools

The Web's startling rate of growth applies not just to the number of people traversing its pages, but also to the sheer volume of available content. These days, it seems everyone is publishing Web pages. (You can get in on the act, too. Just check out the section "A Web Publishing Primer," later in this chapter.) The upshot of all this publishing promiscuity is that the Web is now home to hundreds of thousands of documents. How the heck does a poor Net navigator keep track of it all?
The easy answer is: you don't have to! There are lots of Web resources that enable you to search for specific words or phrases in URLs, document titles, and even, to a limited extent, document text.

The Yahoo Search Form

To get some practical experience with a Web search engine, let's check out Yahoo's Search link. As an example, we'll try to track down an acronym we saw in an astronomy newsgroup: BEM.

To display the Yahoo Search document, either select the Search link in Yahoo's home page, or else use the Go command to head for the following URL: http://www.yahoo.com/search.asp. Figure 11.14 shows the Yahoo Search document. As you can see, it's a form with all kinds of bells and whistles. Here's a rundown of the various controls that are available:

Figure 11.14. Use the Yahoo Search form to hunt down Web documents by URL, title, or comment.

• Find all matches containing the keys The first control is a text entry field that you use to type in your search text. You can enter part of a word, a whole word, or multiple words separated by spaces. In our example, we aren't likely to be successful trying to find the acronym "BEM" directly. Instead, we'll try to find a document that contains a list of acronyms and hopefully BEM will be among them. So, we'll type acronym in the text entry field.
• Search This is the form submit button. You select this link when you've filled out the other options.
• Clear This is called a form reset button. It returns the form to its default values.
• Find matches in These three controls are check boxes. You toggle them on and off by highlighting them and pressing Enter. (A check box is activated when an asterisk appears inside the parentheses.) Activate Title to search through the titles of the documents in Yahoo's database; activate URL to search the document URLs; activate Comments to search the short descriptions that appear beside Yahoo's document links. We'll leave all three activated for our search.
• Case sensitive matching This is another check box. When activated, it tells Yahoo to only find documents that match the exact combination of uppercase and lowercase letters you entered. Unless you're sure about the case of the string, leave this option deactivated.
• Find matches that contain Although Lynx call these three fields check boxes, they're actually radio buttons: they represent a series of mutually exclusive choices, so only one of them can be active at a time. (As with check boxes, you activate an option button by highlighting it and pressing Enter.) This group sets up a Boolean search on multiple words:
• If you select the At least one of the keys (boolean or) option, Yahoo will match documents that contain any one of the search words you entered.
• If you select All keys (boolean and), Yahoo only matches a document if it contains, anywhere, all of the words you entered.
• If you select All keys as a single string, Yahoo only matches documents where the words you entered appear together. For example, if we'd entered acronyms usenet as our search string, Yahoo won't match a document that contained, say acronyms in usenet.
• Consider keys to be These two fields are also radio buttons. Select Substrings if you want Yahoo to match documents with words that contain your search string. Select Complete words if want Yahoo to only match documents that contain the exact word you entered.
• Limit the number of matches to Use this option list to select the maximum number of documents you want Yahoo to return.

When we ran our search, Yahoo returned eight matches, as shown in Figure 11.15.

Figure 11.15. Yahoo found eight documents that matched our search string.

The first document isn't much use to us, but the Acronym list sounds promising. Selecting it displays the WORLDWIDEWEB ACRONYM SERVER, which has, among others, the following link: Search for an acronym. We selected that and ended up at the document shown in Figure 11.16.

Figure 11.16. An example of a "searchable index" document.

Notice the prompt at the bottom of the screen:

This is a searchable index. Use 's' to search

You'll come across these so-called searchable indexes from time to time in your Web hunts. To use them, press s and then, at the Enter a database query: prompt that appears, type your search text and press Enter. We entered bem and, after a few seconds, found the info we were looking for (see Figure 11.17): a BEM is a Bug-Eyed Monster.

Figure 11.17. The results of our search.

Other Web Search Tools

CUI W3 Catalog This service combines several large resource databases (including Yanoff's List, CERN's Virtual Library, and the NCSA's Starting Points for Internet Exploration) and provides a simple search form for tracking down words or phrases. If you're familiar with Perl, you can use Perl regular expressions as search criteria.

URL: http://cuiwww.unige.ch/cgi-bin/w3catalog

CUSI-R (Customizable Unified Search Index via Radio Buttons) This is the "one-stop shopping" site for Web searching. CUSI-R lets you select from several different Net search engines (including Einet Galaxy, the CUI W3 catalog, Lycos, and WebCrawler). You can also search Gopherspace (Veronica), Usenet FAQs, WAIS, Archie, and more. The form uses radio buttons to select the indices to use during the search.

URL: http://www.scs.unr.edu/~cbmr/net/search/cusi-r.asp

JumpStation II This engine enables you to search for words in document titles, headers (the second-level (H1) headings; see "A Web Publishing Primer" for details), and subjects (a set of keywords found in the document). You can also use JumpStation II to search for URLs (the URL Scanner) and Web servers (the Server Scanner).

URL: http://js.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/jsii

Lycos This is one of the most extensive databases of Web documents anywhere on the Net. At the time of this writing, the "big" Lycos catalog boasted 2.7 million unique URLs. (This is about 10 times the number that appeared in the catalog a mere 6 or 7 months ago.) It's also one of the most popular search engines, so getting on during peak hours can be problematic. One of nicest features of the Lycos database is that it indexes not only the URL and title of a document, but also the first 20 lines and the 100 most significant words.

URL: http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/

WebCrawler This is a large (one million URLs) database of Web documents that lets you search not just the usual titles and URLs, but also the content.

URL: http://www.biotech.washington.edu/WebCrawler/

World Wide Web Worm This is a sophisticated search engine that lets you enter simple search strings or complex grep-like expressions. It searches document titles, home pages, and even links in documents (which the WWWW calls "citations").

URL: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/mcbryan/WWWW.asp

A Web Publishing Primer

A complete discussion of Web publishing (Weblishing?) is well beyond the range of this book. The basics we cover will be more than enough to get you started, but if you plan any serious HTML hot-rodding, you'll need some beefed-up sources. Here are some suggestions: For starters, keep an eye what's happening in the Usenet newsgroups comp.infosystems.www.authoring.asp and comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc. These groups feature dozens of posts daily from intrepid Web authors proffering tips and troubleshooting advice. Read the two-part article "World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" that's available in any of the comp.infosystems.www.* groups. In particular, read Part 2 for info on providing Web material. (If you don't see the FAQ, try anonymous FTPing to rtfm.mit.edu, head for the /pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/www/faq directory, and grab the files part1 and part2. Alternatively, point your Web browser to the following URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.asp On the Web, check out The Web Developer's Virtual Library at http://www.charm.net/~web/. This site is brim full to bursting with documents related to developing Web documents. Get yourself a copy of the Sams book Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week, by Laura Lemay. This excellent book takes you from the basics of HTML all the way to advanced forms-based pages. A must. Examine the underlying hypertext documents for the pages you read. Most Web browsers have a command that lets you see the source document of the current page. This means you see the page with all its HTML symbols in place. In Lynx, for example, press \ to toggle the current document between the normal view and the source view.

What Do I Need to Get Started?

A text editor or word processor Surprisingly, a Web document is nothing but text: the usual collection of alphanumeric characters with a few special HTML symbols thrown in to the mix. Your Web browser does most of the work. All those links, form controls, and graphics are just the browser's interpretation of the HTML symbols.

A Web server This is the toughest part of Web publishing. Although most Web browsers can figure out and display any HTML document, to get access to the full HTTP protocol your document needs to be farmed out by a Web server. Ask your service provider if they have set up a Web server. If they haven't, you can also try leasing space on a Web server. To get a list of such servers, point your browser to the following site:

http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/leasing.asp

A little imagination and creativity With thousands, nay millions, of Web documents already out there, you can't expect people to visit your home page regularly if all you do is slap up some text. Hey, you're publishing in the big leagues now! Crank up that imagination and show us all something really unique.

That's it! With just these three items, you can create home pages that rival anything published by big-time corporations and universities with massive budgets.

The Basic Structure of an HTML Document

As we have said, hypertext documents are just plain text files with a few HTML codes thrown in for good measure. These codes—or markup tags, as they're called—define the structure of the document and tell the Web browser how to display the page. These tags are normally used as follows:

<TAGTYPE> The text affected by the tag </TAGTYPE>

There are three parts to this sequence:

<TAGTYPE> This is the type of tag you're using. This first tag in the sequence tells the browser what type of structure you're creating. For example, the tag <TITLE> is used for the title of the document.

The text affected by the tag This is the text the browser must format according to the type of tag given by <TAGTYPE>. For example, <TITLE>My Home Page defines the phrase "My Home Page" as the title of the document.

</TAGTYPE> This tag marks the end of the tag initiated by <TAGTYPE>. For example, to end the <TITLE> tag, you would use </TITLE>. As you'll see, not all tags require the use of an end tag.

The next few sections take you through the basic tags as we build our hypertext version of this chapter.

The <HTML> Tag

The <HEAD> Tag

The <TITLE> Tag

<TITLE>The title goes here</TITLE> For our document, the title is "Navigating the Internet - Sample Chapter," so we add the appropriate <TITLE> tag:

The <BODY> Tag

The <P> Tag (Paragraphs)

The <Hn> Tags (Headings)

Taking the Document for a Test Surf

• If you have a shell account and are using Lynx on your service provider's computer, first use FTP to upload the file to your home directory. Then load Lynx and specify the name of the HTML file as part of the Lynx command lynx <filename>. For example, if the hypertext document is named homepage.asp, you would start Lynx with the following command: lynx homepage.asp.

• If you're using a Web client on your own computer, most browsers let you open a "local" file (that is, one on your computer). (In Netscape Navigator, for example, select the File menu's Open File command. We'll talk more about Netscape in Chapter 12) This enables you to try out a hypertext document without even connecting to the Internet.

• If you would like to try an official Web connection, upload the HTML file to the directory designated by the provider of your Web server and then use any client to load the URL. (The Web service provider should tell you the proper format of the URL.)

The Jump to Hyperspace: Adding Links

To add links to a document, you use the <A> tag:

<A HREF="URL">Link text</A>

Here, URL is the URL you want the link to point to, and Link text is the document text that the user chooses to select the link. For example, consider the following sentence from our document:

The World Wide Web was invented in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee while working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

For our first link, we would like to point to the Web site for CERN (http://www.cern.ch/). In the following sentence, we have added the <A> tag and made the phrase European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) the link text:

The World Wide Web was invented in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee while working at the <A HREF="http://www.cern.ch/">European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN)</A> in Geneva, Switzerland.

A Few Other HTML Goodies

Italics To italicize a word or phrase (in browsers that support italics; this is ignored in Lynx), surround the text with the <I> and </I> tags: <I>Text</I>. For example, to italicize the phrase "World Wide Web," you would use the following code: <I>World Wide Web</I>.

Boldface To display a word or phrase in boldface (again, only in browsers that support it; Lynx underlines text tagged as boldface), enclose the text with the <B> and </B> tags: <B>Text</B>. For example, to boldface the word "hypertext," you would use the following code: <B>hypertext</B>.

Monospaced To display a word or phrase in a monospaced, typewriter-like font (such as Courier in a graphical browser; Lynx ignores monospace), surround the text with the <TT> and </TT> tags: <TT>Text</TT>. For example, the following code displays "http://www.cern.ch" in a monospaced font: <TT>http://www.cern.ch</TT>.

Numbered list To create a numbered list of items, you use the <OL> and </OL> tags (OL stands for "ordered list"). Each item in the list is preceded by the <LI> tag. Here's an example:

For the latter, you need to follow these steps:

<OL>
 <LI>Highlight the file you want to download.
 <LI>Press d to select the Download command. Lynx gets the file and then displays the DOWNLOAD OPTIONS screen with (probably) a single link: Save to disk.
 <LI>Select the Save to disk link. Lynx displays the Enter a filename: prompt with the file's remote name as the default.
 <LI>If the remote name is fine, press Enter. Otherwise, enter a name yourself and press Enter.
</OL>

Here's how it appears in Lynx:

For the latter, you need to follow these steps:

 1. Highlight the file you want to download.
 2. Press d to select the Download command. Lynx gets the file and then displays the 
    DOWNLOAD OPTIONS screen with (probably) a single link: Save to disk.
 3. Select the Save to disk link. Lynx displays the Enter a filename: prompt with the 
    file's remote name as the default.
 4. If the remote name is fine, press Enter. Otherwise, enter a name yourself and 
    press Enter.

Bulleted list To create a bulleted list of items, you use the <UL> and </UL> tags (UL stands for "unordered list"). Again, each item in the list is preceded by the <LI> tag, like so: <P>

The line mode browser is fine as far as it goes, but it does suffer from some glaring limitations:

<UL>
<LI>If you telnet into CERN's browser, you can't save files to your local computer. Also, some Internet services aren't available via the Web to non-CERN users.
<LI>The line mode browser doesn't support forms.
<LI>There's no way to save your favorite URLs for easy access later.
</UL>

Here's the Lynx version:

The line mode browser is fine as far as it goes, but it does suffer from some glaring limitations:
  * If you telnet into CERN's browser, you can't save files to your local computer. Also, some Internet services aren't available via the Web to non-CERN users.
  * The line mode browser doesn't support forms.
  * There's no way to save your favorite URLs for easy access later.

Using the Web

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