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Navigation Keys
Welcome. You may read these instructions by paging
through them with the Page Down key. It is one of
the dark grey keys to the right of the Enter key, if
you have a 101 key keyboard. Page Down is also the
number 3 key on the numeric keypad when Num Lock is
not on.
You may escape from these lessons in mid-course by
pressing the Escape key. It is the one labelled
"Esc" on the upper left of your keyboard.
Greetings Newbie
Newbie is Internet slang for a new Internet user. Because
the Internet is vast and complex you can remain a newbie
in some sense for a long time. It's not that it is difficult
to learn. It's just diverse. It's like learning to play a
musical instrument. It takes good basic instruction, then
lots of practice. That's where these tutorials come in.
This is course Internet 1A, for complete beginners. These
tutorials are designed so that you will be given colorful
and (hopefully) interesting lessons on various aspects of
the Internet, and then given an opportunity to practice the
concepts you have learned as Internet simulations.
Why Simulations?
Diving into the Internet without any preliminary instruction
is like travelling to a foreign country where you do not
speak the language, have no friends, and hold no currency.
Traditionally Internet is taught by an instructor logged in
real time performing various Internet chores on an overhead
projector. What usually happens is he loses his connection,
or connections that worked before are refused, or trash
starts appearing on his screen, etc. When whole classes are
allowed to log in for instruction, they invariably become
distracted by content and don't learn technique. Teaching
via simulations solves both these problems.
How It Works
These lessons you are about to use are arranged in a simple
system of heirarchic menus. Simply press the highlighted
letter in the menu box to start the lesson. There are screen
instructions along the way telling you how to navigate.
Notice the bottom of the screen. When you see the "PgDn" and
"Esc" symbols, these keys are active. Notice also the key
labels at the left bottom of the screen: "F4AutoLogin" and
"F5Sound". By pressing the F4 and F5 keys you can toggle
these features. AutoLogin is a feature that bypasses the
login feature when starting each lesson. The sound feature
turns off the telephone dialing sounds.
How To Proceed
If this is your first time using the program you should do
the lessons under the menu called "The Internet" to gain an
overview. The default password is: 99friday. There are
other valuable lessons under this menu, like setting your
modem and how to change your password, but Logging In is the
most important. After that, you may use the lessons in any
order you wish. For a core knowlege that will make the
Internet immediately useful we recommend that you do the
lessons on: Gopher, Veronica, Finger, ftp, Telnet, and
Pine (if this is your email program -- it is offered at
many sites).
A Word About Printing
Most often at the end of a lesson you will be given an option
to print a one page summary. But there are some lessons
(like Logging In) where the summary may be printed from the
menu that starts the lessons and not at the conclusion. Pay
attention to the prompt at the bottom of the screen. If it
says "P to print" you can print from the menu. By the way,
if you want to print a summary quickly and do not want to
go all the way to the end of a lesson, start the lesson,
press escape, and then you will be given an option to print.
Registration
This software is distributed as shareware. That means you
can use it as much as you like, freely copy it, and give
it to your friends and colleagues. If you like it, please
send a $9.00 US Dollar registration fee to the author. You
will print the registration form if you print the summary
to this lesson. Network registration is $9.00 per work-
station or $85.00 site license fee for networks larger than
9 workstations.
Thank you for using "Learning The Internet."