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The Significance of the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW)
- Are you comfortable using the mouse?
- What is the Internet? A network.
- What is Netscape? A browser.
- What is Hypertext? The "heart" of the Web.
- Links are "Hot" Often underlined, change color once "visited."
- What is HTML? Hypertext markup language.
- What is a Homepage? The face of a Website.
- What is the quality of Information on the World Wide Web? Good, bad & indifferent.
- How do you connect to the Information Superhighway?
- Usually through an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
- Mouse, Arrows, Scrolling & Frames
- Hour Glass
- Title
- Menu Bar
- Go -- History
- View -- Document Source
- Button Bar
- Back & Forward
- Home
- Reload
- Find
- --An Example of its Use
- Stop
- Location
- By Exact Address (URL)
- --An Example:
- http://www.mjt.org
- By Yahoo
- --Browse
- --Key Word
- By Search Engine
- --AltaVista
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- Go Off Surfing on Your Own --
- by using Web addresses you may have brought with you;
- by using either Yahoo or AltaVista;
- or
- by visiting Some Interesting Internet Sites
- pre-selected for your entertainment and edification.
- Also, a sheet of interesting Web addresses is provided among your handouts.
Barry Chad, Assistant Head, Pennsylvania Department
Email: chadb@clpgh.org
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