Getting around

The Main Menu

The Surf the Millennium home page appears when you click Surf the Millennium in the World Book Main Menu. Click on:

A century, such as

To view an imaginary home page for that century. There you can link to e-zines, want ads, bookstores, and other types of simulated Web sites, written from the perspective of the time.

To select a century and view a list of imaginary web sites. Then click on the Web page that interests you to be transported back in time.

Clicking on from any simulated Web site returns you to the Main Menu. There is also a print button that prints the current screen.

 

The Century Sites

Each century has an its own home page, and links to several features. To view articles, ads, reviews, and more, click on the hyper-linked text that causes the mouse cursor symbol to change from an arrow to .

 

View from 2000

Each simulated site has its own View from 2000 box. Here, you'll find out what's real and what's imaginary and get today's perspective on the events, people, and places described. In each View box, you'll also find links to lots of additional information—articles, booklists, and even real Web sites.

The View from 2000 information is displayed in a separate box to the left of the open Web page.

 

To display the View from 2000 box:

Click the icon on the current Web page.

To link to information shown in this box, click on the hyper-linked text.

 

To close the View from 2000 box:

Click in the upper right corner of the window.

 

The Site Map

On the Site Map page, you can view all the topics for a selected century at a glance. Then click on the Web page that interests you to be transported back in time.

To surf using the Site Map:

  1. On the Surf the Millennium home page, click to display the Site Map page. The top of the Site Map is shown below. The information that is displayed below the centuries varies depending upon the century you select.

  2. To begin exploring, click on a century (1000’s, 1100’s, and so on) that interests you. Links to that century’s news site and to all its features will appear.

    3.  

    Toolbar buttons

    To surf and print using toolbar buttons:

    Click To

    Go back to a page you viewed previously.

    Go forward to a page you viewed previously.

    Return to the Surf the Millennium home page.

    Print the content of the current page.