Introduction

Browsers

Newsgroups

Listservs

Indexes

Searches

Evaluating sites

Mass media

Government

Specialized sites

Reference

Glossary

Browser Section Homework

Complete the assignment below. E-mail your answers using this link: blick@latech.edu. Be sure that J222 browser homework appears in your subject line.

Here are a few simple questions to get you started and to help me find out more about you and your Web-access setup.

  1. What is your name?
  2. What is your e-mail address?
  3. What computer platform (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Macintosh or other) do you use?
  4. What browser do you use?
  5. What version of that browser do you use? (If you are not sure, go to the "Help" menu heading and select "About . . ."
  6. How have you used the Web thus far? Write a paragraph or two describing your experience with the Web.
  7. Have you used the Internet in any way other than browsing Web pages and using e-mail? If so, describe those ways.
  8. What Internet service provider (AOL, your university or something else) do you use?