Netscape button (home page)
Shop (portal)
Help
Search engines
WebCrawler
Lycos
Yahoo
Dogpile (meta search)
Connect via ISP or DSL
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The buttons on the toolbar: Netscape, Search and Shop take you to pages at the Netscape site. Many sites on the net are trying to become "portals." They want you to start your surfing with them so you see their ads first! These pages describe the versions of Netscape, how to get new versions and there are jumping off links for other pages on the next. There are many of these "pages of links" on the net. Most home pages (such as the Wilkes Home Page) have a collection of favorite links, usually near the bottom of the page.
The Help menu has some selections you may try. These are also pages at the Netscape server. Help > Reference Library has a Take a Tour of the Internet (http://help.netscape.com/products/client/communicator/tour/tour.htm) which covers many of the topics I have shown you.
You might want to look at Frequently Asked Questions. These are know as FAQs and are a favorite way of dispensing information to newcomers on the Internet. Whenever you go to a new site or try something new, look for FAQs to answer some of your basic questions. It will also save you some embarrassment. Veterans on the net usually get upset at having to answer the "same stupid questions" from Newbies. That's why they put all the "same stupid questions" in the FAQs.
I would recommend you make extensive use of the search engines on the web. They are excellent ways to make reference searches electronically. They can save you time if the information you need is on the web somewhere. However, it only seems like all the world's information is on the web. There are some items that I have not been able to find on the web. However, these programs are excellent jumping off points for research.
You can choose Search from Netscape's toolbar.Search the Web with Google.
Search the Web with The WebCrawler.
Also search the Web with Carnegie Mellon's Lycos. Self-described as "The Catalog of the Internet".
Search for information at Yahoo.
A meta-search engine is dogpile. It searches many engines at once.
You can connect to the Internet by dialing into an Internet Service Provider (ISP) (such as Epix or AOL). More recently, a service called Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) has been offered by some telephone companies. DSL is much faster than dialing into an ISP.
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