BROWSING ON INTERNET

For browsing on the internet, the following tools are available.
1. Who is – refers to identification of persons.
2. Finger – provides information like username, who has last logged in, how long his session had been idle, when he has viewed his last E-mail etc.
3. UU commands – information could be received about machines connected to Internet by UUCP (Unix to Unix copy).
UU Hosts – information is received about a particular site, who is responsible for it and what sort of UUCP connections it has with other sites.
UU Where – displays the path between the machine, the user is currently using and the site machine.
4. Gopher – Gopher is a software protocol designed to search, retrieve and display documents from remote sites on internet.
5. WAIS – Wide Area Information Service. It is a software protocol having the capability of searching more than one data line. The user has the provision of choosing the data for his requirement. Then he submits the query and gets the response for the query.
6. World Wide Web (WWW) – It is the most important aspect of Internet and has accelerated the growth of Internet. It is an easy to use, point and click graphical interface. It is highly interactive having graphics, text, sound and animation, etc. It is used as a market place, art gallery, library, community centre, school, publishing house, etc. There are search tools like web index and search engines to enable the information searches and discover them more effectively.