Your First Step Into The Internet

First and foremost, let me extend a warm welcome to the Internet. If this is your first time here, feel free to sign my guestbook. If you would like some history about the Internet, take a trip to the World-Wide Web Consortium. Anyway, hope that you find the following links useful. Do feel free to contact me anytime with comments and ideas.

Sign My Guestbook Guestbook by Lpage View My Guestbook

Table of Contents

  1. Browsers
  2. Email
  3. Newsreaders
  4. HTML
  5. Others

Browsers

Browsers are essential for Internet users, new or old. It serves as the window towards the Internet or in this case the World Wide Web (or WWW for short). Currently, Microsoft and Netscape have locked horns and have come up with very competitive browsers. The fact that you are viewing this page means that you must have some knowledge about the Internet. Below are just some of the better browsers that I have come to know about.

Netscape Navigator - Be sure to check out for regular updates. As of late, Netscape Communicator packs a punch with its suite of programs such as Collabarator, Composer and the usual browser and email functions
Microsoft Internet Explorer - Latest version is IE 4.0
NCSA Mosaic
SPRY Mosaic
HotJava
Microsoft Internet Explorer Powered

Email

You will probably need an email application for starters. The term 'E'(or electronic) mail has emerged of late as a fast and effective way of correspondence and communications linking practically everyone in the world, thus the term 'global village'. It erases the hassle and paperwork of normal, or 'snail', mail and postage services in the world today. Information can virtually be passed on instantaneously from point to point at the click of a button. These are some for you to check out.

Qualcomm's Eudora Light
Pegasus Mail
Calypso
DTS Mail
NETcetera

Newsreaders

You will need a newsreader in order to read or subscribe to newsgroups on the Internet. Listed are some of the most frequently used newsreaders.

Free Agent Net Xpress Microsoft Internet News WinVN

HTML

How about having your own Home Page? You will be able to learn more about creating and publishing your very own with the help of these HTML (Hypertext Mark-Up Language) sites. Enjoy!

HTML Easy
The Instant Home Page
Web Wizard
HotDog
HTML Writer
Style Guide for Online Hypertext

Others

These are some of the useful sites where you can download various clients for your usage.

TUCOWS - (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software)
Consummate Winsock Applications
WS_FTP
WSGopher
WinZip

Updated on 09 Apr 98. Created on Tuesday, 27 May 97.


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