The Internet is an increasingly important part of everyday life for people around the world. But if you've never used the Internet before, all of this new information might feel a bit confusing at first.
Throughout this tutorial, we'll try to answer some basic questions you may have about the Internet and how it's used. When you're done, you'll have a good understanding of how the Internet works, how to connect to the Internet, and how to browse the Web.
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In this lesson, we take a very broad look at what the internet is.
What is the internet?
What you can do online
In this lesson, we will take a look at the following topics:
Watch Video: Connecting to the Internet
Connecting to the internet
In this lesson we are going to take a look at the following topics:
Understanding the cloud
In this lesson, we will learn the basics of browsing the Web. We'll talk about navigating to different websites, using tabbed browsing, creating bookmarks, and more.
Watch Video: Browser Basics
Browser Basics
in this lesson, we learn how to use hyperlinks
Using Hyperlinks
In this lesson, we learn about downloading and uploading
Downloading and Uploading
In this lesson, we look at the basics of using a search engine, as well as some techniques you can use to get better search results.
Using Search Engines
Watch Video: Using Search Engines
In this lesson we are going to examine each component of a URL and what we can learn from it.
Watch Video: Understanding URL's
Understanding URL's
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