The Internet Tour is a HyperCard™ 2 stack. It requires HyperCard 2, which in turn requires Macintosh System 6.0.5 or later. (HyperCard 2 is available from user groups or from Claris. System upgrades are available free from your Macintosh dealer.) The Tour should be able to run on any Macintosh computer that can run HyperCard 2, i.e., a Macintosh Plus or any more advanced Macintosh. Mac Pluses with 1 megabyte of RAM may not be able to run HyperCard 2.
The Internet Tour was designed by the NSF Network Service Center as a general introduction to the Internet for the new network user. It contains information on the history of the Internet, network etiquette, network applications, Internet resources, and a glossary of networking terms. We want it to be an easy and enjoyable way to learn about the Internet.
The NSF Network Service Center
BBN
10 Moulton St.
Cambridge, Mass 02138
email: nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net
The Internet Tour package contains:
Two HyperCard 2 stacks:
Internet Tour
Internet Local Info
and this manual
Top Menu
The top menu has the following items:
Quick Tour
The Network
Network Uses
Reference
Local Info
Quick Tour gives you an overview of the stack with a minimum of choices—you can click the arrow button to go on, or click the Stop Sign to go back to the Top Menu.
Each of the other three choices takes you to a submenu. The fourth, Local Info, takes you to a section where you can read or add information about your site.
BUTTONS
A row of buttons at the bottom of the screen is present throughout the stack. Use them to move around and for taking notes and printing. Descriptions of the buttons follow (in right-to-left order).
"NEXT" BUTTON
The "Next" button (shaped like an arrow) takes you to the next card, or the next item in a series. If a section is continued on another card, the "Next" arrow i sbig and striped, and is labeled "Continued" instead of "Next"—in that case, it's a good idea to click it.
"BACK" BUTTON
The "Back" button (shaped like an angled arrow) takes you back to where you last were. If you continue to click the Back button, you will retrace your steps. Use this button, for example, to return to the previous card after you have clicked on an underlined "hot" word. In Help, the back button takes you back out of Help.
"NOTES" BUTTON
The "Notes" button gives you a note pad where you can write. It also gives you buttons to print, hide, and export the notes to a file. Any changes you make to the notes will become permanent when you hide the notes or go to a new card.
"PRINT" BUTTON
The "Print" button prints the text of all the fields of cards with text information, or prints map cards. If there are fields with text on the card, it will print them; otherwise it will print the card image.
"TABLE OF CONTENTS" BUTTON
The "Table of Contents" button shows you an outline of this stack, which allows you to choose a card to go to.
"TOP MENU" BUTTON
The "Top Menu" button will always take you to the "Top menu," where you can choose between Quick Tour, The Network, Network Uses, Reference, or Local Info.
"HELP" BUTTON
The "Help" button will always take you to the first card of the Help section.
"QUIT" BUTTON
The "Quit" button will take you to a card where you have a choice between going Home, to the Macintosh Finder, or back to where you chose Quit.
FINDING INFORMATION
Hypertext
Whenever a word or phrase is underlined in grey, you can click on it to go to a card about that topic. (Then you can use the "Back" button—the bent arrow—to return to where you were.)
Index Tab Buttons
On some cards there are "index tabs" to the right. Click a tab to see more about the current topic. For example, an index tab on the description of NSFNET says "map"--it links to a map of NSFNET.
Next Button
When the "Next" button is a black arrow instead of a white arrow, it means that the current subject continues on the next card.
KNOWING WHERE YOU ARE
Text fields at the left of the cards in the Internet Tour show you where in the stack you are, by indicating what section and subsections of the stack the current card is in. The bottom box shows the current card. Clicking on one of the higher boxes (where the words are underlined in grey) takes you to a higher level in the stack.
The "Contents" button at the bottom of each card will take you to a Table of Contents, which shows the structure of the stack (and allows you to choose a card to go to).
THE "LOCAL INFO" SECTION
Local Info is for the use of local sites, to the Internet Tour with information relevant to their users. Local Info won't work properly if you don't have a copy of the main Internet Tour stack . (You can change the name of the main stack--you may be asked to locate the stack "Internet Tour 4.0.2" if you have changed the name of the main Internet Tour stack and then you open a Local Info stack from another stack or from the desktop. If this happens, click on your renamed Internet Tour stack .)
When you choose "Local Info" you will be asked for a stack name (the default is "Internet Local Info"). If you have copied the original stack and want to open the new version, fill in its name; otherwise click "OK."
The stack provided with the Internet Tour is called "Internet Local Info." You can add information to this stack, or to a copy of it. It is a good idea to make a copy of the stack before changing it. If you give your copy a new name, that's fine--but you will have to type the name when you choose "local Info" from the Top Menu.
In Local Info, the buttons at the bottom of the screen behave in the same way as in the rest of the tour. The "Top Menu" button goes to the top menu of the Internet Tour.
In Local Info, you can write on a card by pushing the button that says "Click here to add information." You must provide a password at this point—either a new one, or one that someone has already set. The password is set by the first person who modifies the stack.
After providing a password, you will be asked if you want to edit an existing description or make a new card. If you are using Local Info for the first time, click "New." Clicking "New" makes a new card. Then you can click a button called "Directions" for further directions.
When you have provided a password two things will appear: the HyperCard menubar at the top of the screen, and a button called "Lock."
MENUBAR
When you have provided a password, HyperCard's menubar will appear at the top of your screen. Refer to a HyperCard manual, book, or the help stack to learn about using the menubar. Editing text is similar to other Macintosh applications.
LOCK/UNLOCK
This button locks and unlocks the text fields on the cards. When the cursor in a text field looks like a pointing hand, and the Lock/Unlock button says "Unlock," then the field is locked—this means the contents can't be changed, and words with grey underlines are "hot." When a field is unlocked, the Lock/Unlock button says "Lock" and the cursor looks like an "I." You can type, but the hot text is temporarily disabled.
The directions in Local Info will tell you how to make "hot" words underlined in grey; when these words are clicked on (when the text field is locked), the Tour will search for a card on that topic. It will look first in the Local Info section and if it doesn't find it, it will search in the Internet Tour stack.
LOCAL INFO DETAILED DIRECTIONS
Copy the "Internet Local Info" stack. It is best to work on a copy of this stack.
The "Directions" button
Click the "Directions" button to see these instructions. Click the instructions to hide them.
The "Write" button
To add information to this stack, push the "Write" button on the first card.
Password
You will be asked for a password. (As you type, dots will appear—this is so no one can see the password.) The password is set by the first person to add to the stack.
Editing
After typing the password, you are given a choice of making a new card or editing an existing one. To edit, choose an item from the menu.
New Card
If you choose to make a new entry, a card is created for you. Type in the field where it says "Write here," and fill in a title where it says "This is your card."
Writing
The menubar should be showing at the top of your screen. The "Edit," "Font," and "Style" menus are useful for text editing. They operate much as they do in MacWrite or other Macintosh word processors.
Links
To make a hypertext link, select a word (or phrase) and press: clover-shift-g (three keys at once); the word will get a grey underline. Do this only with words that you know have a grey underline elsewhere in the Internet Tour. Make sure the word is exactly the same and is underlined in exactly the same way as it is elsewhere in the Tour. Don't include spaces at the beginning and end of the word(s).
Graphics
You'll have to know something about HyperCard to add graphics to the stack—refer to the HyperCard manual. Delete everything in the big field on the right side of the new card (the empty field will disappear when the card is reopened); draw or paste your graphic on top of the field.
Title
Put a title in the field at the top of your card. You must use one word from this field in the menu on the first card (see next paragraph).
Go to first card
When you have finished with your card, go to the first card by clicking the "First Card" button (to the left, under the directions).
Menu
Add an item for your card to the menu. Include a word from the title of your card. Then select that word and press command-shift-g (three keys at once) to give the word a grey underline.
Lock
Fields Then click the "Key" button—this locks all the fields. Clicking on the word that you underlined in grey should take you to your new card. If it doesn't, check that the wording of part of your title is exactly the same as what you underlined in the menu. To get back to your card if the menu item doesn't work, press command-4. This will take you to the newest card in the stack.
