Navigating the Internet
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| There are several World Wide Web (WWW) browsers: Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer are the most common (in the Mac the most popular is Netscape, with Internet Explorer a distant second). These notes were composed using Netscape 4.5. |
How to find things
One difficulty in navigating the Internet is to keep track of where you are. Since you can start anywhere and go anywhere in
any order, it is easy to get lost and it may become difficult to find things. Worse yet, you can easily get carried away, start
jumping from place to place and then forget where it was that the real important stuff was. Retracing your steps may prove to
be a real challenge. To avoid this, make a Bookmark of the page you like as soon as you see it by clicking the bar menu on
"Bookmarks", and drag to "Add bookmark". Netscape will automatically log your selection so that the next time you want to
go back to the site all you do is to find its name in the Bookmarks menu and click (drag and release) on it. The record will stay
on the list even after you quit Netscape. The browser will keep your bookmarks for as long as you want. If you eventually want
to get rid of old bookmarks you simply edit your list by clicking (dragging and releasing) on "Edit Bookmarks" in the
Bookmarks menu.
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