Get yourself a browser and you're done!

There are quite a few browsers out there to use, and if you're like me, I have found that I use my FTP program more than anything else. The browser is going to be your "interpreter" on the World Wide Web, taking that stream of data that your PPP and TCP layers are bringing to you and making that data look like something meaningful. However, the browser doesn't necessarily have to be a graphical one. There are still text browsers out there like Lynx that let you browse the World Wide Web without any graphics at all, which is good for our slow (but dutiful!) Macs.

The FTP program that I use is Fetch, and it's a fantastic utility that lets me browse FTP servers and download files, such as system updates from ftp.apple.com, or shareware from ftp.tucows.com, or all kinds of other files. It's probably a good idea to download Fetch first, so that you can have it to download all your other files!

I also have Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0, which I downloaded from ftp.microsoft.com, and it works pretty well. There are some other browsers like MacWeb, Netscape, and some other smaller market browsers. I don't know about you, but the browser doesn't make much difference to me as long as it can handle a reasonable array of "extras" like Quicktime files, Adobe .pdf files, and java applets.

I could try to give you a big list of places to go to download files, but I'll tell you that if you download Fetch, it comes with a bookmark file with a ton of FTP sites.

OK, so there's one more page after all. . .