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Web browsing

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us: Web browsing



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    • us: Browsing, Web
    • us: Surfing, Web
    • us: Web surfing

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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Pacifici, G. A markup system for shared HTML documents, 1998: abstr. (... several Web-co-browing systems have been recently introduced ... In such systems, several participants join a conference during which they navigate the internet exploring its resources together)
    • found: Internatioal Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (19th : 2004 : Taipei, Taiwan). 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications : proceedings, 2005: v. 1, p. 501 (Web browsing ... consists essentially of users accesing resources that are available in Web servers connected to a network (Internet or Intranet))
    • found: Glossary of GPRS, via WWW, July 1, 2008 (Web browsing: using a navigation tool running on a personal computer, users can move among the Web servers within the internet, selecting information, viewing images or moving pictures and downloading applications)
    • found: Dictionary of computers, multi-media and the Internet, via www, July 1, 2008 (browse ... On the World Wide Web, browsing is the activity of moving from site to site to view information. This is sometimes also called surfing)
    • found: PixieRobot, an automated unattended Web scraper, via WWW, July 1, 2008 (Web browsing is the process of opening a Web page via the Internet and displaying the data from that Web page)

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    • 2008-08-21: new
    • 2008-10-07: revised

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