Douglass Website Parent Tutorials
 
Introduction To Surfing the Internet  
  What You Will Need to Surf
  • A Computer with Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Internet Access
Look at the top of your screen - you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer right now to read this page!

Every Webpage Has A Unique Address
Just as every house in the world has its own street address, each web page has its own internet address.

Webpage internet addresses are called URLs. Find the URL for any page by looking in the address bar.

See the URL for this page

Hyperlinks Take You to Webpages
You arrived at this page by clicking on an underlined phrase on the previous page. That underlined phrase was a hyperlink. Words or pictures can be hyperlinks.

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