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Joy of web browsing
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Besides that cool-dude-come-along feel, browsing opens up unknown vistas
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Expanding horizons Browsers are sure-fire way of providing entry into new spheres
In the comfortable glow of computer screen, Rakesh, a computer engineering grad, breezes through the web into late hours. He flips many websites stacked on the tab, burrows and tags along the links. The link showing java coding shows up. It snags him
. Chase it, man. “Web is my spaceship.” Ride it full throttle. “Can’t live without this.” Get going on full lock.
Web being no walls and only links, people can dig into it, reading, writing, researching, posting, seeing, and playing stuff. It offers mind-boggling variety of choices. “If you spend considerable chunk of your life online,” he says adding passionately: “You find it adventurous enough to continue browsing more.” Time lapses and space curves. Every atom of your being craves for more bytes.
“Best thing to happen since printing press,” says Prasad B., a web enthusiast, who downloads crap load of stuff that interests him. Maybe, it’s the best thing to have happened since people struck fire in a cave.
As Wikipedia says, the Internet and the web are not the same: “The Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous. The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks linked by copper wires, fibre-optic cables, wireless connections, etc. In contrast, the Web is a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is one of the services accessible via the Internet, along with various others including e-mail, file-sharing, online gaming and others.”
Googly reasons
For all sorts of Googly and not-so-googly reasons, people find browsing interesting, and in a short time, start living major chunk of life online. Browsing has a cool-dude-come-along feel. “It’s actually a doodle to type in URL, and off you go,” says Vasanth K., who has a bug-eyed enthusiasm for browsing. “You know what, I browse for the simple heck of it.”
Browser is your gateway to the web. Whatever browser one uses--- Mozilla-Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, Internet Explorer--- the browsing experience should be optimum. So goose the browser up. For getting a kick out of browsing experience, Kumar, a computer engineering grad, customizes the heck out of Firefox, the open source browser that gained a lot of traction among users. “I like power surfing. Firefox scales up better.
It really supports all the tweaks you want on it,” he continues, “for power browsing.” “You can browse with it, and it feels intuitive” says Uma, also a computer engineering graduate.
“This Firefox thing loads web pages more quickly, that’s why I like it,” says web enthusiast Prasad. And it crushes those irritating pop-ups.
Mounika, a computer engineer, who often goes goofing off on the web, says: “It’s a goose bumpy thing to get exposed to the wonders of the web.”
It’s LOL all the way
Web is all about content. The content is contextualized with multimedia tools. For Ganesh, it’s about ferreting out geomatics information. “It’s just not all the damn text,” he says. “It’s about images, graphics, and audio and video. Music. Bells and whistles. Links. Resources. I spend a lot of time on a single page.” When he starts, he has an idea where to go for but ‘the dazzle of the web takes over.’ Overwhelms him. “I go after many leads,” he explains, continuing: “I am richer for it.”
So friends, Romans, folks, fire up your browsers, have helluva time, if you remember it.
G.B.S.N.P. VARMA
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