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Welcome

This tutorial is an introduction to the types of information stored on the Internet and some of the ways to get access to that information.

Objectives:

This tutorial is intended to provide you with the experiences necessary to prepare you for exploring or "surfing" the internet. By the end of this tutorial you should be able to identify the different parts of a URL, navigate through web links, view homepages, display graphics, play sounds and view movies through a web browser such as Netscape Navigator.

Contents


How this Tutorial Works

This tutorial is mostly self-contained. It contains explanations and exercises that enable you to start "surfing the web".

This tutorial is specific to Netscape Navigator. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, then you should use this version of the tutorial.

Navigation in this tutorial is provided by the following buttons:

ButtonAction
start Go back to start and contents page of tutorial
prev Go back to previous page of tutorial
exit Exit the tutorial
next Go on to next page of tutorial
end Go forward to end of tutorial

Click on the next button to take you to the first page of the tutorial, or simply click here to start.


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