Practical Learning: Connecting to the Internet

1-You must first find out from your ISP, your teacher, or your boss, etc how to establish a connection with the internet. There are two main ways with some variances. If you are working at home and you use a modem, you can first double-click an icon that your ISP made available on your computer. If you are using DSL at home, you are in a classroom or at the office, the connection is usually established already and it is available all day long so that there is no particular step to follow in order to connect to the internet. In this case, you can simply launch your browser and the internet is available.Open your browser
2- Locate the address box that we described earlier
3- Click anywhere in that box
4- Press End
5- Press and hold the Backspace key until the box is completely empty, then release

the down arrow key
6- Type http://www.senate.gov and press Enter
7- Notice that this opens the web site of the United States Senate

Using the Internet

A Link

A link is a word or a sentence that, when clicked, would lead you to a web page or produces an internet-related action. Because a link is meant for the internet, it is usually displayed in a different color although this depends on the person who created the link. There are two main ways you get a link:
* Somebody may send it to you as a reference or an indication
* If you are already on the internet, you may see some words or sentences that coincidentally all

display in the same color
The color of the link is not really what makes it a link. It is the result of what it produces that makes it a link. To distinguish a link from the other text on a document or a web page, when you position your mouse on it, the mouse pointer usually changes into a closed hand with a pointing finger. Here is an example:

A link can also be created on a picture. To indicate that a picture holds a link, when you position your mouse on it, the pointing finger cursor
appears.