START
The following pages will teach you more about the Internet and how to
make exploring it easy and fun.
The contents below are designed to be followed in order. To start, click
number one on the contents below and follow the instructions.
Please feel free to review things as often as you like, or if you are
familiar with the information, quickly skim through it.
There is lots of new information you'll see this afternoon. You are sure
to have questions so please just ask the Instructor and they'll answer them.
Most importantly, have fun!
These pages have been designed to accompany the Introduction to the
Internet Workshop on 16 th March 1996 at UNE by:
1. RETRACING YOUR STEPS
How Do I Get Back to the Last Place I was at?
2. ORIGINS OF THE INTERNET
How Did the Internet start?
3. URL's
What are URL's?
4. GO TO
How do I look up a URL I have been given?
5. BOOKMARKING
How do return to a place on the Internet that I like without
following links...?
6. BROWSERS
What is the difference between a Text and a Graphics Browser?
7. SUMMARY
What we've covered today
8. EXPLORE
What does the Internet have to offer?
9. SEARCHING
How do I find Information on the Internet?
Wendy Truelove
Department of Rural Extension Studies, University of Guelph, GUELPH N1G 2W1
ONTARIO CANADA and
Ian Reeve
Rural Development Centre, University of New England, ARMIDALE 2351 NSW
AUSTRALIA