The WWW project (initiated by CERN) merges the techniques of networked information and hypertext to make an easy, but powerful global information system.

The project represents any information accessible over the network as part of a seamless hypertext information space.

WWW was originally developed by CERN to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups. Originally aimed at the High Energy Physics community, it has spread to other areas and attracted much interest in user support, resource discovery and collaborative work areas. It is currently the most advanced information system deploted on the Internet, and embraces within its data model most information in previous networked systems.

In fact, the web is an architecture which will also embrace any future advances in technology, including new networks, protocols, object types and data formats.

WWW can handle a variety of different data formats, from plain text, to animation and sampled sound. It can also access other services, such as gopher, news, ftp and telnet.

For more information on how the WWW works including technical specifications, click here.

Using the WWW from CIX however is slightly different than if you were using a graphical client.

When using CIX, the client software you are using cannot display graphical images, but you can download the image to your local machine and store it, if you should ask for a image, the following message will be displayed:

This file cannot be displayed on this terminal: D)ownload, or C)ancel:

Pressing D for download will then start the download to your machine.

For more information on the client CIX uses, typing H whilst using it will connect to the site it was developed at, and there is a user manual on line.

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