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This website is a beginner's guide to using the [[Internet]]. It has been created by [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]] in order to help make the basic tools of the Internet available to the uninitiated.
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This website is [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]]'s personal guide to using the [[Internet]]. It reflects my limited experience of using the web, mostly via a computer running [[Microsoft Windows]]. The site is currently rudimentary, an incomplete [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_in_progress work in progress]. Pages that are linked to but not yet created appear as [[red link]]s.
  
==Under Construction==
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The companion to this site is my [http://interdb.org Internet Database], which contains a hodge-podge of poorly-digested information about people, websites and other stuff connected with the Internet.
The site is currently '''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''. In these first stages of construction, short articles will be added in order to establish the '''structure''' of the site. The articles will be expanded later by adding more detail.
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*Any text that is unfinished or in doubt is '''marked in bold characters'''.
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*Articles that are linked to but not yet created appear as [[Red Links]].
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==Navigate this site==
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Words to the wise: "Learning to use the Internet is a full-time job."
All categories are attached to the [[:Category:Root|Root]] Category, either directly or indirectly. You can thus start at the [[:Category:Root|Root]] category and work down the tree of Categories. Or you can see the [[Site Map]].
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*[[:Category:Root]]
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*[[Site Map]]
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==Main Categories==
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==Starting points==
Basic Internet Use:
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All Categories are attached, directly or indirectly, to [[:Category:Root]].
*[[Webuser Tools]]
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*[[Social Media]]
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*[[Cyberculture]]
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Advanced Internet Use:
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*[[Webmaster Tools]]
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*[[Network Tools]]
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*[[Network Protocols]]
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==Is this website a wiki?==
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An explanatory list of the main Categories and Sub-Categories can be found here: [[Category List]]
This website runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software, which is the wiki software used by Wikipedia. This might give the false impression that the website is a wiki. But in fact only registered users can edit pages, and the only registered user at the moment is [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]].
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==Scaffolding (to be removed)==
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The following pages were intended as starting points (but they are incomplete and likely to be replaced by others):
*[[Site Map]]
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*[[How to use a web browser]]
*[[Notes]]
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*[[How to make a website]].
*[[Sandbox]]
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*[[Special:Wantedpages]]
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See also the manually-created [[Site Map]].
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==Is this website a wiki?==
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This website runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki], the wiki software used by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. That might give the impression that the website is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]. But in fact the only authorized user is [[User:Michael|yours truly]].
  
 
==Contact==
 
==Contact==
Comments or questions may be addressed to: michaelrobertslattery(at)gmail(dot)com
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Send email to: slatteraz(at)gmail(dot)com

Latest revision as of 12:09, 23 January 2014