Student Access to the World Wide Web

 

Internet and World Wide Web in Brief

The Internet is a collection of interconnected networks. Capabilities include electronic mail, file transfer, and remote computer access. Currently, the Internet interconnects over 35,000 networks in almost 80 countries. The beauty is no matter what profession you are in, you can always and easily find discussion groups and reference materials related to your work, studies or hobbies on the Internet.

The World Wide Web (also known as the Web, WWW, or W3) provides a simple and consistent way to navigate all sources of information on the Internet. A piece of information on the Web can be data, documents, pictures, or even audio and video recordings. With WWW, information retrieval and sharing among Internet users have never been easier.

CityU's WWW

To make CityU more accessible electronically via the Internet, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) has set up a WWW information server for the university. With the assistance and input from various departments and offices, we now have quite a collection of information in store, and of course, continuous update and enhancement is of no doubt.

How to access CityU's WWW

There are three Web browsers installed for staff and student use. Lynx is a text basis browser, while Netscape and Mosaic supports multimedia.

Students who have UNIX accounts can invoke Mosaic after logging on a SUN workstation. Those who work at the DOS level can invoke Lynx from the Internet Service option within the Information Services menu. Netscape and Mosaic are now available on the Student LAN Windows environment. Furthermore, as all the PCs in the student terminal area will eventually (hopefully before October) be installed with local hard disks, students could even download files via the Internet onto the hard disks for temporary use.

Before September, only Lynx is provided for off-campus access via the CityLink service. Now, with the CityLink Plus service, the PPP/SLIP is supported, thus enabling access to Netscape, Mosaic and all utilities on the Internet.

Computing Services Centre City University of Hong Kong ccnetcom@cityu.edu.hk