The SLAC WorldWideWeb (WWW) service provides
access to a wide range of information from a variety of sources both
at SLAC and elsewhere. Information is provided in the form of
hypertext
which allows users to follow pointers from one item to other related items,
and thus to access the information they need in a simple intuitive manner.
Information is accessed using the
TCP/IP
network and can actually reside
anywhere in the world, although the user does not need to know where
the information comes from.
A number of different programs (called
browsers)
are available to access WWW information for different platforms
including VM, VMS, Unix and NeXT.