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The World Wide Web: taking the plunge - includes related glossary, addresses and information on four religious sites

Christian Century, Oct 11, 1995 by John Ottenhoff

RELATED ARTICLE: A sampling of religious sites

[] The Gregorian Chant Home Page on the World Wide Web. http://www.music.princeton.edu:80/chant_html/index.html

The main purpose of the Gregorian Chant Home Page is to support advanced research on Gregorian chant, particularly in the graduate seminar "Problems in Early Christian Music" (Music 511) taught at Princeton.

[] Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.cs.pitt.edu:80/planting/books/

Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves!

[] The Confession Booth http://anther.learning.cs.emu.edu/priest.html

An opportunity for digital confession; just fill in the blanks. Some samplings from the page:

Digital Priest: And what is it you wish to confess? I committed the following sin:

(Murder) (Adultery) (Sloth) (Lust) (Avarice) (Deception) (Gluttony)

(Pride) (Anger) (Covetousness) (Misplaced Priorities)

[] Augustine on the Internet http:ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html

Features the oldest surviving portrait of Augustine, texts and translation of Augustine's Confessions and other works, as well research materials and essays, including "Contemporary Influences of Augustine"--lyrics from rock musician Sting's song "Saint Augustine in Hell."

RELATED ARTICLE: Glossary for World Wide Web users

(adapted from NCSA Mosaic) Browser--A World Wide Web client; an information retrieval tool.

Client--Software that allows users to retrieve information from the Internet and World Wide Web. NCSA Mosaic is an example of client software.

FAQ--A file that contains Frequently Asked Questions and answers.

Gopher--A text-based distributed information system developed at the University of Minnesota

Home Page--A top-level document of an organization or a document that a user frequently visits; user defined list of preferred URLs to a given World Wide Web document

HTML--HyperText Markup Language. The rules that govern documents to be read by a WWW Browser (usually indicated with the .html or .htm file extension).

Hyperlink--A link in a given document to information within another document. These links are usually represented by highlighted words or images. The user also has the option to underline these hyperlinks.

Internet--An international computer network connecting government, academic and business institutions.

URL--Uniform Resource Locator, the address for a source of information. The URL contains four distinct parts: the protocol type, the machine name, the directory path and the file name. For example: http:// www.ukans.edu/uroulette. html/.

World Wide Web = WWW: W3 = The Web--A distributed HyperText-based information system conceived to provide its user community an easy way to access global information.