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Welcome to Paris!
You probably know the name of the most important museum in Paris, called Le Louvre. Feel free to
From the Louvre, the most famous perspective in the world includes the Champs-Elysees, the Are de Triomphe and the Grande Are he de la Defense
Have you ever heard of Montmartre and its famous cabaret the Moulin Rouge? Or would you rather take a boat and follow the river La Seine to some interesting
places such as the Tour Eiffel?
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history of the city that intrigues millions
of people. Click. You’re viewing a map of Japan,
identifying universities you’d like to visit. Click.
You’re listening to the Japanese pronunciation of
an essential tourist expression. Wow, this is neat!
Another click and you’re at NASA’s Johnson
Space Center, reading about various space
missions. One more click, and you’re viewing a
pictorial history of the first building on the Texas
A&M campus. With each successive click of
your mouse button, you’re welcomed to another
computer on the planet that offers information,
entertainment, and education.
Welcome to the Internet, a worldwide network
of computers that can provide access to a
seemingly infinite amount of information! As a
student, faculty, or staff person of Texas A&M,
you can use discover a wealth of Internet
treasures using “non-hostile” applications to the
Internet such as Mosaic.
Mosaic is a hot topic with people who use the
Internet. A business executive once referred to it
as “the most exciting thing since the Beatles.”
Why? Because Mosaic makes the Internet easy
and fun to use. If you can click on a mouse
button, then you can use Mosaic.
Mosaic acts as both your personal tour guide
and chauffeur to the Internet; it browses the
Internet for you with a wonderful technology
called the World Wide Web (WWW). The
WWW presents the Internet in an especially
appealing way by combining text and images on
the same screen, and using a technology called
hypertext to create links or “hot spots” between
FTP sites, Gophers, text documents, pictures,
sound recordings (songs, interviews, narrations)
and video clips. Click your mouse on a link and
yon can “hop around” the World Wide Web,
following your own preferences, desires, and
interests in Internet information.
Mosaic, by puttim die world at your finger
tips, enriches your educational experience. No
need to walk abo t libraries and archives. Vast
amounts of information resources for your aca
demic and professional work can be obtained
with no more hassle than clicking a mouse
button.
You can use it to discover resources from other
universities, libraries, and government agencies
like NASA, the National Institute of Health, the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the
U.S. Census Bureau, and the White House. On an
international level, you can access United Nations
and World Bank resources. Liberal Arts students
can retrieve full-text, online versions of literary
classics from Project Gutenburg. If you’re an art
lover who doesn’t have the opportunity to go to
Rome or Paris right now, you can take an online
“tour” of the Vatican Art Exhibit or view famous
paintings from Le Louvre and other galleries.
Especially appealing for you people in the field
of Education is the development of academic
courseware. A non-profit organization in Texas
known as the Global Network Academy is using
the World Wide Web to develop courses on a
variety of topics. The Global Network Academy
can use the skills of teachers across the Internet
and plans to become a fully-accredited, online
university as its long-term goal.
Mosaic always offers plenty of entertaining
information, too. Sports buffs can find the latest
scores in WWW Sports Information. During the
last Winter Olympics, a computer in Norway was
set up to provide up-to-date information on daily
events, including results and images of the
competition. Music lovers can access and listen
to music recordings, film aficionados can watch
short video clips of famous films, and travelers
can use the Virtual Tourist Guide to find out
information on a particular country they’re
interested in visiting.
Equally appealing is the price of Mosaic—it’s
free! The National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) developed Mosaic with
your tax dollars. For more information about
Mosaic or how to get the free Mosaic software,
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