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Surfing the Web |
Navigating, or finding your way around, the Internet is simple when you know the right buttons to push. This is often called "Surfing the Web". Read and follow the instructions below to learn how to "surf".
| Home Page: When you
open the Internet your computer will go to the home page that is set up in
your computer. (At school the computers will open to the Roan Creek
Elementary Page.) From here you can go anywhere.
* If you have a specific Internet address (URL- Uniform Resource Locator) you can type it in the address box on the toolbar.
* You can also follow hyperlinks that lead
from one page to another. A hyperlink is usually in blue type and is
underlined, like this:
hyperlink.
After you have clicked on a hyperlink it will sometimes turn a different color to show you that you have already been to that page. It will look like this: hyperlink * After you have followed a hyperlink you can always get back to where you started by clicking on the back button on the toolbar. Try it out by following this hyperlink: Test your back button.
* A picture
can be a hyperlink too! Move your cursor over the pictures below.
You will see the hand (
* Click on any of the hyperlinks below to go on.
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