Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer and Mozilla allow you to view World Wide Web files. They provide the pretty little window with all the neat buttons. Other competitors that do the same thing (basically) are things like Netscape, Mosaic, Opera or LYNX (LYNX is pure text, and hence not much fun unless you're stuck dialing in over a phone line and hence can't get graphics anyway). Explorer and Netscape and their kin are clients, of a type called web browsers (just a type of computer program). They're like different types of TV sets that show you what's being broadcast. (Not a great analogy, but there you have it). To extend the TV set analogy just a bit, some clients allow certain features that others don't, sort of like the way that some TVs have stereo sound and others don't.