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presenting information in a linear or hierarchical
way, hypertext permits information to be linked in a
web-like structure. Users can dynamically criss-cross
the information web in the order most convenient
to them. The cErn project resulted in an innova-
tive front-end to the internet, now referred to as the
World-Wide Web.
in 1993, the national center for Supercomputing
Applications (ncSA) at the University of illinois
pushed the cErn scientists idea further by creating
a software tool called Mosaic. it is a tool that permits
text, graphics, sound and video to be hyperlinked.
Mosaic was the first of the internet tools that are
now referred to as “Web browsers”. other well-known
browsers include netscape and Microsoft’s internet
Explorer. Web browsers permit users to connect to the
internet and facilitate access to information located
on another remote computer.
The WWW provides users with convenient means
of accessing the wide variety of resources available
on the internet.
The advantage of the external portal for organisa-
tions consists in the possibility to insert the content
externally and not to overload the capacity of inter-
nal sources. By the means of the portal, there are
generated topical data for the creation of teaching
materials.
on the contrary, the internal portal is a private
and secured environment, which only the employees
of the given firm, which runs the portal for its own
purposes, have the chance to access. The internal
portal will be integrated with the information system
of the human resources department.
The following conditions will be important for an
educational portal:
