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Are You Ready for the Net?

Many of you have entered this new world--a world of email, passwords, chatters, hackers, and cyberpals. You can log on, chat with millions of people from all over the world, visit NASA, play games, and even do homework. To get there, you just turn on your computer, hook up to the superhighway through your computer's modem, and viola...you're there. Does any of this make sense to you? Probably not...read on!
The Internet or "Net" for short, is a worldwide collection of computer networks. Visualize this...Think of it as a spider spinning its web. First, a spider spins a few strands of silk joined in diamond-shaped sections. As this web grows, the sections are attached to more sections. The spider goes on and on, building more sections and attaching them to the rest until, finally, his web is complete.

The Internet is like a spider's web except instead of using silk, the Internet "weaves" telephone lines to create sections of linked computers. Computer experts began creating the Internet by linking a few computers together to form a network. Then they hooked up this first network to other networks with cables, microwaves, satellites, and the other high-tech systems that carry electronic information around the world.

A spider's web holds one spider, but the Net's web of computers is home to more than 50 million scientists, teachers, journalists, librarians, business people and students like you--can you believe two million newbies join every month?!! The Internet web is set up to catch information...not flies! All kinds of information such as photos, books, sounds, messages, and video travel the web in just a few seconds. Just as a spider wanders around his web, walking along the interconnected strands of silk, Internet users wander the worldwide web of computers to get at some incredible stuff!!

This unit will take you on a journey around the Net. You will learn about its history, how to get online, surfing, viruses, email, netiquette, and video conferencing and chat rooms. All right, let's get set for the Net!!! First step, click on this hyperlink to take you to your first worksheet to complete.


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