web-browser

plural web-browsers

1. alternativeAlternative form of web browser.

   If you’re on a web-browser, surf to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov.

   1995 January 19, Harley Jebens, “Powerhouse Hardware Software”, in XLent (Austin American-Statesman), volume 2, number 3, page 27

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   To see why Al “My Way Is the Highway” Gore and 50,000 other Netheads from across the country have dialed into Monta Vista this year, point your web-browser to http:

   1994 September 20, David Plotnikoff, “The fall invasion of neophytes plagues Usenet veterans”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 111, number 58, page 4D

   To reach Kansai-Net via the World Wide Web, point your web-browser to http://pclsp2.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kp.html.

   1995 January 20, John M. Moran, “Internet becomes quake-net: Global audience gets disaster information”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CLVII, number 20, page A8, column 3

   Several other sites on the Worldwide-Web^([sic]) claim to provide a coverage. Point your web-browser at one of the following: […]

   1995 September 23, Chris Depasquale, “Chess”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,780, section E, page 15

   Incidentally, if you think this situation is just going to go away, you might want to crank up your gubernatorial web-browser and check out: http.^([sic])//www.netexpress.netgideon/flyaway.html.

   1996 November 6, Karen G. Cheesman, “[People’s Pulpit] Illinois deliberately creates health hazard”, in The Rock Island Argus, 147th year, number 20, Rock Island, Ill., page A4

   […] we might visit The Virtual Laboratory, a site where hundreds of physical phenomena are simulated or demonstrated in a virtual environment using small programs called ‘applets’ designed to run on your web-browser.

   1997 November 25, “New A-level physics course”, in John Leggott Journal (Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph), number 16, page 12

plural Web-browsers

1. alternativeAlternative form of web browser.

   With “applets,” what you see using your Web-browser may not be what you’ll get.

   1996 May 20, The News Journal, 118th year, number 69, Wilmington, Del., page D1

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   If you have access to a good graphical Web-browser such as Mosaic, the address is http://www.hotwired.com/ (the trailing slash is often optional).

   1994 November 24, David Plotnikoff, “HotWired launches a revolution”, in The Spokesman-Review, 112th year, number 169, Spokane, Wash.; Coeur d’Alene, Ida., page E13

   Rockin’ the Web: KFJC-FM (89.7), Foothill College’s pioneering alternative-rock station, has a very well-crafted World Wide Web page. Point your Web-browser to http:

   1994 December 16, David Plotnikoff, “Take a gamble on this newsgroup before you hit Vegas”, in Chicago Tribune, 148th year, number 350, section 7, page 96, column 5

   But just as on-line services opened Internet news groups to millions of users, all major services plan Web access soon. Prodigy is first, with a Windows Web-browser available on-line at no extra charge on Tuesday.

   1995 January 14, Gannett News Service, “Internet Web to widen in ’95”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page C2

   The Van Halen site (set your Web-browser to “http://vanhalen.warnerrcrds.com/Balance”) is in support of the band’s Balance CD.

   1995 April 6, Harley Jebens, “Powerhouse Hardware Software”, in XLent (Austin American-Statesman), volume 2, number 14, page 26

   If you have managed to wash the bitter taste of the baseball strike out of your mouth and get back to this business of rooting for the home team, you will certainly want to point your Web-browser at the new big-league site: “Major League Baeball(at)Bat” (cute, eh?).

   1995 May 7, from wire reports, “Baseball junkies find a home on new on-line site”, in The Sun Herald, volume 111, number 219, page D■5, columns 4–5