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Exploring Your Options

Using the Internet

 

 

 

Getting started

1Connect your computer’s modem to a telephone line.

TECHNICAL NOTE: If you are using the telephone line at home, disable Call Waiting before you connect through the modem. Call Waiting interrupts data transmission.

2Start your Web browser. Have your modem dial the ISP’s telephone number, and establish a connection with the ISP’s computer.

If you are using your computer at the office, then you probably connect to the Internet through your company’s local area network. For more information, see “Connecting to a local area network” on page 147.

Using the Internet

The following sections give a quick introduction to the Internet and some of its exciting features, under these headings:

❖The Internet

❖The World Wide Web

❖Surfing the Internet

❖Internet features

❖Uploading and downloading files from the Internet

For more information about the Internet, see “Lesson 3:

Learning about the Internet” on page 116.