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Setting up an Internet account
Before you can view the information on the World Wide Web, you need to set
up an Internet account with an Internet service provider (ISP). To set up an ISP
service or to transfer an existing account to this computer, contact the ISP
directly.
Dial-up Internet connections are those using a telephone system to connect to
the Internet. This may include ordinary analog telephone lines, ISDN
connections, and in some cases ADSL over PPP or other technologies. Because
dial-up connections are designed to be temporary connections to the Internet,
dial-up charges (with both your telephone company and Internet service
provider) often increase the longer you connect to the Internet. To minimize the
cost for dial-up Internet users, we suggest that you only connect to the Internet
during your e-mail and Web browsing session, then disconnect when you are
finished. Your Internet service provider can provide instructions on how to
connect to and disconnect from the Internet.
Cable and DSL modems, connections known as broadband, use your cable
television or special telephone lines to connect to your ISP and access the
Internet. In many instances, broadband is considered an always-connected
service. With this type of service, your cost is the same regardless of the amount
of time you use your Internet connection.
Accessing your Internet account
Help and Support
For general information about using
Internet accounts, click Start , then click
Help and Support . Type the keyword ISP
in the Search box, then click the arrow.
The method you use to access your Internet account varies from ISP to ISP.
Contact your ISP for the correct procedure.
Using the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a multimedia window to the Internet that gives you
access to millions of information sources.
Information on the Web comes to you on Web pages , which are electronic
documents that you view using a Web page display program called a browser .
You can use any of the commercially available Web browsers, like Microsoft
Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Web pages can contain text, animations, music, and other multimedia features.
A group of related Web pages is called a
Web site . You can access Web sites to
shop, track investments, read the news, download programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site, or visit other Web sites, by clicking areas on a Web
page called
links or hyperlinks . A link may be colored or underlined text, a
picture, or an animated image. You can identify a link by moving the mouse or
touchpad pointer over it. If the pointer changes to a hand, the item is a link.
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