Lesson 16: The Internet and Education

Getting around the Net

     The vast sea of information in the Internet, including news and trivia, is a challenge to those who wish to navigate it. Every day, the Net user-population and the available information continue to grow, and new ways are being developed.

   The most attractive way to move around the Internet is called browsing. Using a program called a browser; the user can use a mouse to point and click on screen icons to surf the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web (the web), and an Internet's subset of text images, and sounds are linked together to allow users to access data or information needed. The future of the Internet seems limitless. Already its complexity has spawned and continues to spawn Net sites including new demand for services to business, industries, science, government and even homes. Many experts predict that the Internet is destined to become the centerpiece of all online communications on the planet and in some future time in the solar system using interplanetary satellite communication stations.