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Links and Browsers--from Mosaic to Netscape

Basically, two technical innovations differentiate the Web from the rest of the Internet. First, its hypertext infrastructure (based on a "universal addressing system" developed several years ago by programmers at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory), which makes it easy to link documents to other documents on the Web using invisible "tags." And second, the front-end "browser" software (like Netscape and Mosaic), which allows readers to navigate the links, viewing text and fairly sophisticated graphics.


John Whalen