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Chapter 4
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Getting Online
The Internet is a global communications medium that connects individuals,
businesses, governments, and educational institutions. The Internet can be used on
many levels. For example, businesses are finding the Internet to be the easiest way
to advertise, market, and deliver their goods to consumers around the world. The
Internet provides electronic mail and other resources that allow mobile
professionals to be as productive on the road as they are in the office. These
resources are rapidly making the Internet an indispensable business tool, just like
the telephone, facsimile machine, and photocopier.
People of all ages find the Internet to be a forum for exchanging messages, playing
games, sharing conversations in chat rooms, accessing information on all sorts of
subjects, and much, much more.
You can even use the Internet to visit @Xi Computer Corporation’s Web page at
www.xicomputer.com . This Web site contains information about @Xi Computer
Corporation’s products and can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This chapter provides an overview of the Internet and the World Wide Web. It also
contains suggestions for selecting an Internet Service Provider (ISP). You connect
your computer to an ISP to access the Internet.
The main topics in this chapter are:
• “Overview of the Internet” on page 32 .
• “Internet Access” on page 37 .
• “Selecting an Internet Service Provider” on page 37 .