Browsing for Resources with Mosaic

Alan Levine, MCLI
Developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Mosaic provides a Mosaicmultimedia interface for the Internet via protocols of the "World Wide Web", or WWW. On the next page, Figure 1 shows a sample Mosaic screen. When you click the mouse on any of the "links," Mosaic will display a new document, perhaps retrieving the document from another computer on the other side of the world. You can also access other Internet services such as Gopher and WAIS.

Some excellent examples of Mosaic documents are exhibits from the U.S. Library of Congress. When reading this article from the Mosaic version of the Labyrinth, if you click the mouse on the underlined text, Dead Sea Scrolls, Mosaic displays a page with links to over 100 images, descriptive information about the Scrolls, plus access to resources for teachers.

So where do you start? As shown in Figure 2, Mosaic comes with built-in pointers from the Navigate menu (Macintosh) or the Starting Points menu (Windows). As you view more and more pages, the arrow buttons allow you to return to previously-viewed ones. When you find a page that you would like to return to, use the options from the Hotlist menu (Macintosh) or Navigate menu (Windows) to mark your spot. This makes it easy to find the document at a later time. Your personal hotlist is saved when you quit from Mosaic. You can also create separate hotlists, or arrange them by subject (i.e. for Physics, Art, Literature, etc.). When you have questions, refer to the Help menu (under the Balloon Help menu for the Macintosh version).

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