Introduction

The World-WideWeb (W3) is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge. It is an initiative started at CERN in Switzerland, but now has many millions of participants. It has a body of software, and a set of protocols and conventions. W3 uses hypertext and multimedia techniques to make the web easy for anyone to roam, browse, and contribute. Future evolution of W3 is coordinated by the W3 Organization.

Lynx grew out of efforts to build a campus-wide information system (CWIS) at The University of Kansas. Lynx clients provide a user-friendly hypertext interface for users on UNIX and VMS platforms, and allow information providers to publish information located on any platform that can run a Gopher, HTTP, WAIS, FTP, or NNTP (USENET NEWS) server.

Lynx clients use the WWW hypertext format HTML.

To try out Lynx, enter "lynx" at the "%" prompt. You will be linked to the home page at the University of Kansas. To check out the PRIMUS Home Page, issue the "g" command and type the following:

http://www.primushost.com

Bold or underlined entries indicate that a link exists between that word and a document somewhere else. Using the arrow keys to navigate you can follow links wherever they may lead.

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