How to use Internet?
set of useful features and functions. When we
are on the internet, our computer is connected
to others by a mixture of telephone wires,
cables and satellites. This allows people to
exchange large amounts of information,
pictures, video and audio quickly. The Inter-
net is easy to use. An important part of the
Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW). This
comprises millions of pages containing
information on almost any subject we can
think of.
A group of interlinked pages is known
as a ‘website'. To get to a website we either
need to know its address or look for it using a
‘search engine'. It is very important to observe
the placing of the full stops and forward
slashes in these addresses. Search engines
are websites which find things for us when we
give them a ‘key' word or words to look for.
An example of a search engine is ‘Google'. We
enter ‘key' words - such as ‘dhaka board' -
and press ‘Enter' or ‘Google Search'. We will
soon find out that a site may come up on our
search just because the words ‘dhaka' and
‘board' appear in the same sentence
somewhere on that site. However, search
engines do provide information on how to
‘refine' our search. As with most things,
practice improves our skills.