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is hard to say, especially for those of us who have difficulty pronouncing their W's !

What does it stand for?

Where Was Wally?
Wonderful Willy Wonka?
Worst Witch Wanted?

No, silly, the World Wide Web of course! (But you can click on any book to go to Amazon Bookshop!)

So, (I can almost hear you saying this), what is the World Wide Web? Well, really it's just a collection of special bits of information called 'hypertext' files that you can have a look at if you have a connection to the internet. In fact it's like a web of information all around the world. (Must have been a big spider, eh?) Does it sound boring?

Hypertext files can contain information, pictures and sometimes sound and even video clips. Not so boring? (Less boring than your local library, anyway?)

Each file contains 'hypertext' links to other files which contain similar or related information. What does THAT mean? Well, imagine this.......

Your teacher has asked you to find information on 'lions' for a class project. Using the WWW (often referred to as 'the web' on account of WWW being impossible to say!) you should be able to find descriptions of lions, pictures which you can print, maybe a recording of a lion's roar, and if you're really good at finding things, maybe even a video clip. I'm sure you'd find some of these things in files provided by the Disney organisation. After all 'The Lion King' is a lion isn't he?

Each of the files you find will belong to a particular 'web site' (just a collection of files made available by someone for us all to see.) Here and there they will contain 'hypertext' which will be a different colour from the rest of the words in the text. When you place your mouse over these special words you will notice that your cursor, which usually looks like a big, thin letter 'I' when it hovers over words, changes to look like a hand.
When this happens, if you want to, you can left-click with the mouse and instead of seeing the file you were looking at you will soon see another file, the one that was linked to the first one by the hypertext word.

Some of you, who found these pages on your own, will already know all this. But you may not know that you can make your own web site very easily.

Click the 'pink link' which says 'Make a Web Page!' to find out how!
(Yes, clever-clogs, it IS a hypertext link.)

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Last Updated: May 19th, 1999