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7. How do I move around the Web? Back | Next The easiest way is to use hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are words or pictures that have URLs hidden in them. When you click on a hyperlink, your web browser uses the URL to locate another web page, or to take you to another place on the current web page. Hyperlinks can also play a sound, movie clip, or download a file to your computer. Hypertext often appears as highlighted and underlined words in the body of the text, or is arranged in a list like an index. Graphic hyperlinks can appear as buttons or photographs. In fact, a picture can contain several links to different places. How can you tell which text or graphic contains a hyperlink? Your arrow cursor turns into a hand when you move it over a hyperlink. Text links are easier to spot, since they appear in a different color from the rest of the text-usually blue, like this. When you return to a page with a text link you've already visited, the hypertext words are in a different color--often red, pink, or a different shade of blue-so you know you've already visited that link. But you can certainly revisit a page by clicking on the same link. Hypertext Hypertext are words that link to things like other web pages, sounds, pictures, animation, and video. By clicking on the hypertext, you can jump to these new things.     1. What is the Internet?     2. Why should I use the Internet?     3. What is the World Wide Web?     4. What are a web page and a website?     5. How does the Web work?     6. What's a home page?     7. How do I move around the Web?     8. What does .com mean?     9. What's the story with all those funny slashes and         dots?     10. What's e-mail?     11. What's so great about e-mail?     12. How does e-mail work?     13. How can I send e-mail to my friend?     14. Are there ways to have fun with e-mail?     15. What about chat? What is it?     16. Is there anything I should know when I'm in a chat           room?     17. How do I find cool websites?     18. How can I find information like a phone number or           e-mail address?     19. Is there anything I need to be afraid of on the          Internet?     20. Can I listen to music or see movies on the Net? Learn the Net (www.learnthenet.com) is Copyright 1996-2009. Michael Lerner Productions. All Rights Reserved.