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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.

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.

Words to the wise: &quot;Learning to use the Internet is a full-time job.&quot;

==Starting points==
All Categories are attached, directly or indirectly, to [[:Category:Root]].

An explanatory list of the main Categories and Sub-Categories can be found here: [[Category List]]

The following pages were intended as starting points (but they are incomplete and likely to be replaced by others):
*[[How to use a web browser]]
*[[How to make a website]].

See also the manually-created [[Site Map]].

==Is this website a wiki?==
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==
Send email to: slatteraz(at)gmail(dot)com</rev>
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