Intro to the Internet

    Become net-savvy in six short weeks! Learn where the Internet came from, what makes it tick, and where it's headed. Learn five secrets about e-mail that you'll wish you knew long ago. Learn how MIME will allow you to attach programs, documents and pictures to simple e-mail messages. Learn how to put File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to work for you. Learn advanced search techniques so that you'll be able to find virtually anything on the World Wide Web. Get answers to virtually any question you could imagine asking in the Newsgroups. Conduct live conferences over the Internet with chat and Internet Telephony. Explore the uncharted wilderness of Gopherspace. Take control of remote computers with Telnet.

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    Requirements:

    Internet access, e-mail, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator web browser.

    Syllabus:

    Week One
    Lesson 1 History of the Internet
    Lesson 2 World Wide Web basics
    Week Two
    Lesson 3 Searching the Web
    Lesson 4 Advanced Search Techniques
    Week Three
    Lesson 5 E-mail; attachments
    Lesson 6 Downloading files with FTP
    Week Four
    Lesson 7 More FTP; compression
    Lesson 8 The Newsgroups
    Week Five
    Lesson 9 Chat and Internet Telephony
    Lesson 10 Gopher
    Week Six
    Lesson 11 Telnet
    Lesson 12 Internet Business; Internet's Future

 


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