Introduction to the World Wide Web

An Introduction to the World Wide Web

An introduction to the World Wide Web.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthesiologists are increasingly utilizing the Internet for personal and professional purposes. Without guidance, the task of searching the Internet for information may be time-consuming and frustrating. This article includes a basic introduction to the Internet with suggestions and guidelines for accessing information resources. Future articles will address locating...

World Wide Web usability: introduction to this special issue

This special issue arises out of a symposium entitled ‘‘The Missing Link: Hypermedia Usability Research & The Web’’, held at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute in May 1996 (Buckingham Shum, 1996). As the title suggests, we felt there was something missing between the vast amount of hypermedia and related human— computer interaction (HCI) research that has been conducted, and the mo...

The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a very large distributed digital information space. From its origins in 1991 as an organization-wide collaborative environment at CERN for sharing research documents in nuclear physics, the Web has grown to encompass diverse information resources: personal home pages; online digital libraries; virtual museums; product and service catalogs; government information for public...

The World Wide Web

This article provides a high-level overview of the World Wide Web in the context of a wide range of other Internet information access and delivery services. This overview will include client-side, server-side and “user-side” perspectives. Underlying Web technologies as well as current technology extensions to the Web will also be covered. Social implications of Web technology will also be addre...