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- Navigation Keys
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Greetings Newbie
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Why Simulations?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- How It Works
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- How To Proceed
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- 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).
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- A Word About Printing
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- 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.
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- Registration
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- 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.
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- Thank you for using "Learning The Internet."
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