The Client's Side of the World-Web Web.

Without question the hottest part of cyberspace at present is the World Wide Web. The Web is the Internet's killer protocol mix, the client-server handshaking and communications protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol, together with a protocol for document formatting, HyperText Markup Language. As this article was being written, the Web became the dominant Internet resource as measured by both packet count and volume, surpassing File Transfer Protocol, Telnet, and Gopher. The client side of the Web at this moment is dominated by Mozilla and Microsoft Windows operating system of Netscape Corp. For one thing the non-Unix world represents the greatest growth potential for the client side. The few million existing Unix workstations pale in comparison to the estimated 60-75 million Windows computers and another 100 million that use DOS, not to mention tens of millions of OS⁄2 and Macintosh computers. The two basic ingredients of a Web client are a navigation tool and a document browser.