More Net LIngo

Navigate is the "act of moving around the Web by clicking on hypertext links that take you from one Web page to another." When you navigate, you are moving "from one computer to another and from one server to another." This navigation is seamless.

The Invisible Web is "information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, such as databases." It is estimated to be 500 times larger than the visible Web. Dynamic pages within databases reside on the invisible web.

Is it any wonder that older users (defined as people over 50) may become confused? For them, the word navigation, has primarily been a nautical term. The word seamless referred to a piece of fabric that was not joined to another piece by a sewing machine. A mouse was a small rodent. The term monitor was a verb not a noun.

When did we become accustomed to words such as online, virtual, dot.com, Yahoo, Google, and Dogpile? When did research leave the book stacks in the library and move to sitting before a computer?