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    Using Web Browser

                      For several years, the Web remained a tool used by scientific researchers. But in
                      1993, developers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
                      created  Mosaic, a  point  and  click Web  browser.  A  Web  browser  is a  software

                      application designed to find hypertext documents on the Web and then open the
                      documents  on  the  user’s  computer.  Commonly  used  web  browsers  are  Google
                      Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, etc.

                      Launching Your Browser

                      You may need to connect to the Internet before launching the browser. To launch a
                      browser, first get connected to an Internet connection, then follow the given steps:

                                                                                         2  When the list of programs
                                                                                         opens, find the name of your
                                                                                         browser and click on it.

                        1  Click on Start
                       button.

                      Using URLs

                      You have learnt in the previous class that every Web page has a unique address,

                      called a Uniform Resource Locator or URL. URLs help you to navigate the Web.
                      When you provide a URL to the browser, the browser finds that URL’s Web page and
                      then transfers the Web page to your PC. The content of the Web page then appears

                      in the Web browser window. You can specify a URL in several ways, but two methods
                      are commonly used. Let us discuss about them.

                      Using Address Bar

                       Step 1    Type the URL in the browser’s Address bar.
                       Step 2    Press the Enter key from the keyboard.

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