World Wide Web
From: Sherri A. Jones R.N. (saj@po.CWRU.Edu)
Date: 08/28/95-11:31:30 AM Z
From: saj@po.CWRU.Edu (Sherri A. Jones R.N.)
Subject: World Wide Web
Date: Mon Aug 28 11:31:30 1995
Question: How do I access the world wide web? How do I get
started? Have other Atari users had success accessing the www???
Sherri Jones
**** Answered by Michael Current, aa700:
World Wide Web (WWW) access will be dependent on your Internet service
provider. For instance, If you want to think of the Cleveland Free-Net
as an ISP, the Cleveland Free-Net does not support WWW access at this time.
(except through the most clunky method of accessing Web pages by e-mail-->
for an example, send a message to server@mail.w3.org that says exactly
send http://www.earn.net/gnrt/www.html
)
Other Internet service providers support text-only access to the WWW, using
Web client software such as Lynx. All Atari computers can access the Web
this way since it only requires a modem and VT100 emulation.
For _direct_ Web access, meaning you'll see all those snazzy graphics and
sound you hear about, I don't believe there is presently a solution on the
Atari platform. Meaning, there aren't any complete Web browsers running on
the Atari that I know of.
Hope that helps.
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