Welcome to the Wonderful World of HTML 2.0!

This is a paragraph. When viewed with a browser, this block of text will be separated from the the next block of text by a blank line. Hypertext paragraphs are not tabbed.

This is an example of a blockquote text-block. It is separated from the surrounding text-blocks by blank lines and is indented, as a block of text in WordPerfect would be uniformly indented using the F4 command.

This is a single line of text which ends with a line-break tag.
This is another single line.
Press the backslash key to review the document source.
Use the forward slash to search for the word "backslash"
Press the backslash key again to return to the "rendered" version.

Did you notice that that even though the text in the document source appears to contain many line breaks, the browser will only force a line break when it encounters a line break command? What appear to be line breaks in the rendered version of the file are really soft-carriage returns generated by the browser--like word-wrap in a text-editor...

the following is an example of an ordered list...

1. RootsWorld
2. Jammin' Reggae Archives
3. The Electronic Mail & Guardian

• The (Unofficial) Blind-l Archive
  • maintained by Masafumi Nakane
  • read today's postings
• EASI, an organization dedicated to "Equal Access to Software and Information,"
  • is chaired by Professor Norman Coombs

• not all lists contain hyperlinks...
• this list, for example, does not contain a single hyperlink...
• what is a hyperlink? a hyperlink has the following characteristics:
  1. it begins with the opening anchor tag, <a>
  2. it contains HTML code which tells the browser to do something, such as go to another document, with a HREF="URL" statement...
  3. it contains a brief description of the destination to which the link leads, and
  4. it ends with the closing anchor tag, </a>
• a hyperlink, therefore, takes the following form:
  • <a href="URL">Descriptive Text</a>
• HREF is the HTML abbreviation for "Hypertext REFerence", which, in plain English, means that it tells the browser to go to the URL contained in the quotation marks, and display the referenced document
• listed items, unlike embedded links, are preceded by a <li>, or the "listed item" tag...

the opening tag, <dl>,

which, as its name implies starts the definition list;

the "definition-list term" tag, <dt>,

which is followed by the term to be defined; and

the "definition-list definition" tag, <dd>,

which contains the explanatory text which defines the definition term, and

the closing tag, </dl>

1. <dl>
2. <dt>
3. <dd> and
4. </dl>

<dl> and </dl> are containers,

which tell the browser to organize everything contained between the opener, <dl>, and the closer, </dl>, into a definition list...

<dt> and <dd> are separators,

which tell the browser to format the text that follows in a predefined manner...

Well, anyway, to return to the nub of my original gist, I must have been a very good boy when I was eight years old, for that year, Santa not only placed an AM/FM transistor radio in my stocking, but left the dial tuned to FMU, where it's been stuck ever since...

Why am I so fanatically devoted to FMU? Well, for starters, it's the United States' only one-hundred percent listener-sponsored, listener-owned, listener-reliant, listener-run, freeform radio station... And just what does that mean? Basically, that the DJs are free to play whatever they like and whatever they can slip past the FCC... If you've ever been fascinated by the word juxtaposition or beleive in a collective unconscious, WFMU is your etheral abode...

But don't just take my word for it... Why not visit the station whose call letters, I shall forever steadfastly maintain, are actually an acronym for Frequency Modulated Utopia, and find out for yourself? What's that you say? You already clicked on the last embedded link and found the interface not to your liking? Why, then, try this link, which leads to a far more speech-friendly entrance to the brave old world of WFMU...

The webmaster of FMU's website, Henry Lowengard, has quite a warped sense of humor... The New York That Really Never Was, is what can only be termed a specimen of his ouvre...

You can also burrow into WFMU's Gopherspace, or download and play some amusing sound bites from:

• FMU's soundbite collection
• the FMU catalog, or
• the FMU juke box

But, whatever you do when you visit FMU, don't forget to vote in The Worst Song of All Time Contest!

Adding Links to Your Homepage the Easy Way

1. invoke the 'Lynx Options' menu by typing 'o'
2. activate the '(B)ookmark file' field by typing 'b'
3. delete the default 'lynx_bookmark.html' by pressing control-U, and type in 'index.html'
   • NOTE: you can keep an unlimited number of bookmark files (for example, etext.html or blind.html) and toggle between them using this method, provided the bookmark file has an .html or .htm extension.
4. press return
5. exit the Lynx Options Menu and return to Lynx by typing 'r', or--if you want to save the re-defined bookmark file as the default bookmark file--exit the Lynx Options Menu by typing a greater-than symbol
6. type 'a' to add a document or link to the bookmark file by typing 'd' for document or 'l' for link.
   • remember: if you type 'a' inadvertantly, you can always type 'c' to cancel!

• Back to the Begining (a.k.a. Where It All Began)
• Ordered Lists
• Unordered Lists
• Mixed Lists
• Definition Lists
  • A Reminder
• An All Too Brief Diversion
• The Easiest Way to Add Links to Your Page
  
  
• A List of Other Online References