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First Things to Know About Browsers, Web Sites and Addresses
Alexandra Andrews, Annamarie Baldessari,
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Examples used here are based on the latest version of the Netscape Communicator which includes the Navigator and mail/usegroup capabilities. Other browsers may rearrange these features but will usually include them in similar ways.
Mirror Sites The word Mirror in Computers means Alternative or Copy. A Mirror Site is another web address where you will find the same information.
The term URL means Uniform Resource Locator. When you see http://www.cancersupportivecare.com It means (http:// = Hypertext Transfer Protocol) + (www = World Wide Web) + (hostname = cancersupportivecare) + (.com = commercial)
Now type the web address http://www.cancersupportivecare.com into the window and press Enter.
Type the address http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/index.html into the window and press Enter. This will take you to a page named index.html. (html means Hypertext Markup Language) Always type website addresses as shown. Never subsitute capital letters for lower case, or vice versa (except in UNIX where everything must be lower case.) In general, copy the exact spacing of all letters, words, etc.
Don't forget to look closely: what may appear to a blank space may in fact be an underscore and this, too, must be written as shown.
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First appeared June 1, 1999