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Overview (screen 1 of 20)
This Guide expands on the elements of the Internet: the World Wide Web, email, file transfers, newsgroups, distribution and discussion lists, electronic newsletters, and Web chat.
What's in Guide 3?
This Guide provides information about the following:
- Screen 2. The World Wide Web (WWW).
- Screen 3. HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
- Screen 4. Browser applications and URLs.
- Screen 5. How do you find information on the Internet? Search engines!
- Screen 6. Searches on the Web.
- Screen 7. The Web: a summary.
- Screen 8. Email: addresses and software.
- Screen 9. Email: attachments, managing spam and viruses.
- Screen 10. Email: using email in your cultural business.
- Screen 11. File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
- Screen 12. Newsgroups.
- Screen 13. Distribution and discussion lists.
- Screen 14. Finding, subscribing to, and managing discussion lists.
- Screen 15. Different ways to use discussion lists in your organisation.
- Screen 16. Review: discussion lists versus newsgroups.
- Screen 17. Real time communications: Web chat.
- Screen 18. Real time communications: telephony and video.
- Screen 19. Electronic commerce (eCommerce).
- Screen 20. Review of Guide 3.
Definitions needed? Visit FOLDOC
Imperial College, London, U.K. hosts the master 
Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)(1). You can visit FOLDOC any time for definitions and explanations of unfamiliar terms. FOLDOC contains over 13,000 definitions and is very simple to use.
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References
- Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing http://www.foldoc.org/
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