Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is a popular Web browser application from Microsoft. It enables you to view, or browse, pages on the World Wide Web.

A Web page is a window full of formatted text and graphics (Figure 58 and 59). You move from page to page by clicking text or graphic links or by openingURLs (uniform resource locators) for specific Web pages. These two methods of navigating the World Wide Web can open a whole world of useful or interesting information.

Figure 58. When you launch Internet Explorer, it connects to the Internet and displays the default home page—in this case, Apple's "Live Page."

Figure 59. Clicking the link ...

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