07 World wide web (www) (Space FAQ)
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This article is from the Space FAQ, by Jon Leech leech@cs.unc.edu and Mark Bradford tla@surly.org with numerous contributions by others.
07 World wide web (www) (Space FAQ)
WWW is a global hypermedia network carried on the Internet and
incorporating popular protocols including FTP, WAIS, gopher, archie,
NNTP (netnews), etc. The Web is growing at an explosive pace, and huge
amounts of space-related information are already online. The FAQ no
contains many URLs (Universal Resource Locators) specifying files
available by FTP (discussed above), sites accessible by telnet (URLs of
the form telnet://sitename), and Web hypertext documents
(http://site/page).
If you are not familiar with the Web, you should probably begin by
obtaining a Web browser (typically NCSA Mosaic for X, Mac, and PC) and
exploring. The newsgroup 'comp.infosystems.www.announce' is also
available.
The NASA Web home page is at
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
Other space-related material may be found on the Web starting with the
overview page at
http://info.cern.ch/Space/Overview.html
There is also a pointer in the "information by subject" page under
"Space Science."
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