This is a perfect opportunity for individuals in the adult education community who have never been on the Internet to learn, explore, and become familiar with the Internet and many of its tools and terms that have been associated with it. These include similarities and differences of search engines, subject directories, multi/mega engines and how to locate information using all three. Other items that will be addressed are electronic mail (e-mail), Uniform Resource Locator (URLs), telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext markup language (HTML; the basic method of creating web pages, how and when the Internet was created, and differences between the Internet and World Wide Web.
Kimberly S. McCoy
Technical Assistant, OLRC
Everything You Wanted to Learn/Know About The Internet and Were
Afraid to Ask! (slide show)
