| Introduction |
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| speak "Welcome to thi Internet Tips Line." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Wwe will help you experience the Cyber-space by showing you how-to get started on thi Internet." with voice "Fred"
speak "Wwe will give you tips on saving you time and money while surfing the net." with voice "Fred" speak "Wwe will also give you tips on using the World-Wide Web, and exposing yourself on thi Internet." with voice "Fred" speak "Wwe will try to de-mystify thi Internet, and give you high-quality information, instead of tons of noise and garbage." with voice "Fred" |
| Main Menu |
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| speak "Welcome to thi Internet Tips Line." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Push 1, for Introduction to thi Internet." with voice "Fred"
speak "Push 2, for How-to Connect to thi Internet for Free." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 3, for How-to Upgrade to Full Internet Service." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 4, for E-mail Tips." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 5, for World-Wide Web Tips." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 6, for Home Page Tips." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 7, for the Future of thi Internet." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 8, for Partial List of Free-Nets." with voice "Fred" speak "Push 9, for Partial List of Internet Service Providers." with voice "Fred" |
| -- speak "Push any-key during the program to-get back-to this main menu." with voice "Kathy" |
| Menu 01 |
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| speak "In the late 19 sixties, the U-S Department of Defense decided-to create a network that would hook up several computers throughout the United States. This network, known as ARPAnet, was the precursor to thi Internet." with voice "Kathy"
speak "The network evolved to N-S-F-net, when the U-S National Science Foundation connected universities and government research laboratories." with voice "Kathy" speak "Today, thi Internet is a network of networks that share information around the globe, and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate." with voice "Kathy" speak "Thi Internet gives you a Cyber-space experience, and it is likely to become thi Information Superhighway." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Thi Internet services include the following." with voice "Fred"
speak "E-mail, or electronic mail, to communicate with other users anywhere in the world." with voice "Fred" speak "World-Wide Web, to surf the net." with voice "Fred" speak "FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, to transfer files with other computers." with voice "Fred" speak "Telnet, to log-in to remote computer systems." with voice "Fred" speak "Use-Net, to read and write news items in thousands of newsgroups." with voice "Fred" speak "There are other services such-as Archie, Finger, Gopher, Internet Relay Chat, etc." with voice "Fred" |
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| speak "To connect to thi Internet, you need a computer with communications software, a modem, and a telephone line." with voice "Kathy"
speak "In fact, you can even use a 20 year old brain-dead IBM terminal. If you configure it properly, you can visit the World-Wide Web sites, without seeing the graphics though." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "You can access thi Internet for free by signing up with one of the community Free-Nets." with voice "Fred"
speak "The most prevalent modem setting is 8-N-1, or 8 bits, No parity, 1 stop bit." with voice "Fred" speak "Free-Nets are really free, but the modem will likely be busy many many times until a connection is made." with voice "Fred" speak "You can use communications software with automatic re-dial capability, and have a cup of coffee until the connection is established." with voice "Fred" speak "The main menu of thi Internet Tips Line has a partial list of Free-Nets." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "Once you are connected to the Free-Net, you can type, guest, to log-in as a guest. The most likely terminal type that you specify is vt-100. Next, you should find an electronic form to sign up as a permanent user." with voice "Ralph"
speak "Depending on which Free-Net you use, there may be a 1 hour time limit for your session, or a 2 hour daily limit. Also, if you leave the terminal un-attended for 10, minutes or so, they will disconnect you." with voice "Ralph" |
| speak "Once you are registered with a unique account, you can access the World-Wide Web for free, although it is text only." with voice "Kathy"
speak "The Free-Net of your choice may be Web-based itself. If not, the Web launching point may be found in the Communications Centre section of the main menu." with voice "Kathy" speak "Contrary to popular belief, you can even use the form in the text-only lynx browser in the Free-Net to answer an opinion poll, join a club, and order a pizza, for example." with voice "Kathy" speak "The secret is to hit the return key in a pop-up menu or a radio-button menu to make a selection, and hit the tab key to move from one field to another." with voice "Kathy" speak "Although a picture is worth 1000 words, most useful knowledge is expressed in text." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Most Free-Nets offer a way-to hop-to another Free-Net. You may want-to take advantage of this, if your community Free-Net does-not offer certain services, such as Home Page publishing." with voice "Fred"
speak "Generally speaking, anybody can set up an account on any Free-Net, regardless of your geographical location." with voice "Fred" |
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| speak "If somebody says you need a PPP or Slip account with an Internet Service Provider to access the World-Wide Web with graphics, it is a lie." with voice "Kathy"
speak "You can visit multimedia World-Wide Web sites from most of the commercial on-line services, such as eWorld, America On-line, Compue-serv, and Prodigy." with voice "Kathy" speak "You can subscribe to Microsoft Network to access thi Internet, if you do-not mind making the multi-billionnaire chairman even richer." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "If you want-to experience the full power of thi Internet, you can contact a commercial Internet Service Provider, who charges somewhere between 10 and 30 dollars per month for basic services through PPP or Slip connection." with voice "Fred"
speak "The main menu of thi Internet Tips Line has a partial list of Internet Service Providers." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "You do-not have-to buy expensive Internet books or subscribe to magazines to become familiar with thi Internet. The best way to become familiar with thi Internet is to use it." with voice "Ralph"
speak "Remember, the purpose of most of these books is to treat you as a dummy or an idiot, and get your money." with voice "Ralph" speak "Also remember, anything on paper becomes obsolete the second after it was printed, while on-line materials can be updated instantly." with voice "Ralph" speak "Once on thi Internet, you can get much more information on-line than all those books combined. The key is to develop a skill to go straight to the source of thi information, and find a true signal buried in tons of noise." with voice "Ralph" speak "You can gather information yourself, without leaving home, on things that most Internet keynote speakers talk about. Remember, the major role of those keynote speakers is to make money from thi expensive conferences." with voice "Ralph" |
| speak "If any potential service provider does-not return your telephone or fax coll, do-not do business with them." with voice "Kathy"
speak "Another important point you want-to stress is that they should-not charge you for one hour, if you have used the service only a couple of minutes before disconnecting." with voice "Kathy" speak "Once you sign up for service, they will provide you with necessary software, so you do-not have-to spend your money for Internet software at a computer store or a bookstore." with voice "Kathy" speak "Once you are on thi Internet, the best way to get up-to-date software for thi Internet is to download from thi Internet itself." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Some Web browsers offer a single point of entry into thi Internet. You can not-only visit the web sites but-also visit Gopher sites, download files with FTP, send E-mail, and reed use-net news, all within a single application." with voice "Fred"
speak "If thi Internet Service Provider forces you to type complex commands in an arkaic shell account, it is time to say good-bye to them." with voice "Fred" |
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| speak "The bad news is, your E-mail messages are likely-to travel through many computer nodes. You should be aware of the fact that any sys-op, or systems administrator on a node may read your messages unless you use encription." with voice "Kathy"
speak "The good news is, computer viruses do-not transmit through text-based E-mail, although human beings may multiply and spread chain letters through E-mail." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Fight the temptation, and compose E-mail messages when you are-not connected-to thi Internet. While you are off-line, you are avoiding the hour-li usage charge, or saving the precious Free-Net, minutes." with voice "Fred"
speak "Unless your E-mail software supports off-line editing, the most time-saving method is to type your E-mail messages in a word processing software while you are off-line, then use Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste into the Free-Net editor while you are on-line." with voice "Fred" speak "If you subscribe to a Mailing List, switching to the Digest option will reduce the number of E-mail messages you receive." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "The E-mail and Web site addresses are not case sensitive, even though you may read them in mixed cases. Don't waste your time worrying about upper-case or lower-case characters." with voice "Ralph"
speak "Thi Internet Service Providers may not tell you these tips to increase efficiency and effectiveness, because it is their interest to see you spend a lot of time on-line. Remember, the more time you waste, the more money they make!" with voice "Ralph" |
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| speak "The World-Wide Web uses the Client-Server technology. The Web site is the server, and your Web browser, such as Netscape and Mosaic, is the client." with voice "Kathy"
speak "If your Internet connection is not very fast, turn off the Auto-Load Images option in your Web browser. You can then selectively get the image one-by-one in most Web browsers by clicking the icon." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "URL stands-for Uniform Resource Locator. Anybody who says that the U stands-for Universal, or that the R stands-for Record, or that the L stands-for Location, is mistaken. Again, it is Uniform Resource Locator." with voice "Fred"
speak "Don't ever type the URL, or the http colon // stuff, more than once." with voice "Fred" speak "The best time-saving method is to type the Web site addresses in a word processing software while you are off-line, then use Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste into the Web browser when you are connected to thi Internet." with voice "Fred" speak "Once you make this practice your habit, you will be surprised how much time you were wasting re-typing the address again and again." with voice "Fred" speak "If you store your favourite Web site addresses in a book mark or a hot list, you may want-to organise it hierarchically or in alphabetical order to make it very effective." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "To visit a Web site of an organisation, you can intelligently guess the address yourself, and you may find that 50 percent of the time, you are right." with voice "Ralph"
speak "Generally, it starts with http colon //www, followed by a period or a dot, the name of thi organisation, and a suffix." with voice "Ralph" speak "C-A for Canadian, C-O-M for commercial, E-D-U for educational, G-O-V for U-S government, M-I-L for U-S military, N-E-T for network service providers, O-R-G for non-profit organisations." with voice "Ralph" speak "Let's guess the Web site address of Apple Computer Inc." with voice "Ralph" speak "http colon //www dot apple dot com. Easy eh?" with voice "Ralph" |
| speak "You can go straight-to one of the Web search engines to find a Web site address of your interest." with voice "Kathy"
speak "For example, you can use, http colon //www dot yahoo dot com, that is http colon // Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey, dot, Yankee, Alpha, Hotel, Oscar, Oscar, dot, Charlie, Oscar, Mike." with voice "Kathy" speak "This way, you do-not have-to purchase those thick Internet directories, which become obsolete within a second they are published on paper. Remember, the whole idea of using on-line systems is to go paper-less. Besides, you are saving a tree or two." with voice "Kathy" |
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| speak "If you want-to place a very simple Home Page, such-as your resumee, it will cost you nothing. Here is how." with voice "Kathy"
speak "If you have an account on the National Capital Free-Net, you can place a simple Home Page in your directory for free. It will be accessible from anywhere in the world on thi Internet." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "If you have an account with a commercial Internet Service Provider, you can place a bulky Home Page in your directory. The Home Page service is likely-to be included in your basic Internet service charges." with voice "Fred"
speak "If you have access to thi Internet at work but are-not allowed to make your Home Page published, Internet Presence Provider will help you." with voice "Fred" speak "Most Internet Service Providers have a World-Wide Web publishing-only service for less-than 100 dollars per year. For that money, they allow you to place much more data than a Free-Net would." with voice "Fred" speak "If you want a high-quality sophisticated Home Page service, HyperInfo Canada Inc. will help you establish your own customised Home Page with the Premium Home Page service." with voice "Fred" speak "Coll, 819-595-9210, for more information." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "You do-not need an expensive book to tell you how-to write your Home Page. The HTML language specifications and numerous authors guides are available on thi Internet. You can find such documents on the Free-Net, or from one of the Web search engines." with voice "Ralph"
speak "The best way to write your Home Page is to steal somebody else's Home Page by selecting the View Source menu in the Web browser, and use it as a starting point." with voice "Ralph" speak "You can edit an HTML file in any word-processing software. Just remember to save the file as a text-only file with a file suffix of dot html. If you know what you are doing, you do-not have to spend hundreds of dollars for HTML editor software." with voice "Ralph" |
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| speak "What is coming next on thi Internet in the future?" with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Electronic commerce will-be wide-spread with virtual shops and virtual shopping centres using encription and digital signature technologies to exchange credit card numbers securely." with voice "Fred"
speak "You will be able-to do most of thi interactive banking transactions on thi Internet, starting with electronic fund transfer, and eventually to purchase shares and bonds." with voice "Fred" speak "Together with the debit card, the cashless society is almost here, and you will no longer need-to line-up at Automatic Teller Machines." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "The payment options include, DigiCash if you want anonymity, CyberCash if you want trace-ability, First Virtual if you want security." with voice "Ralph"
speak "Other upcoming options include NetCash, NetBill and SecurePay." with voice "Ralph" speak "Despite numerous reports of security holes, sending an encripted credit card number on thi Internet is much safer than giving out a credit card number to a human-being at a restaurant, a store, or on the telephone for direct-mail purchases." with voice "Ralph" |
| speak "You may know how much head-ache it is today, just-to-see French accents on-line." with voice "Kathy"
speak "The 16 bit Unicode encoding standard will replace Ascii to facilitate the display and exchange of such exotic foreign languages as Arabic and Chinese." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Thi Internet connection speed will increase with ISDN, or Integrated Services Digital Network, which is available in many cities in Canada today as business-only Micro-Link service. Some telephone companies are about-to launch residential ISDN." with voice "Fred"
speak "Thi ISDN uses existing twisted-pair copper cables to your house or small office, and runs at the speed of 64 bits per second per channel." with voice "Fred" speak "The ultimate broadband-ISDN will arrive in the form of ATM, or Asynchronous Transfer Mode, with fiber-optic cable to your house. Despite the hype and sales pitches however, it will be years before you can use it." with voice "Fred" |
| speak "Coming soon to the World-Wide Web is the VRML, or Virtual Reality Modelling Language. Unlike the static HTML, or HyperText Mark-up Language, the VRML will give you a Virtual Reality experience on thi Internet." with voice "Ralph"
speak "Also around the corner is Hot-Java, a new platform-independent technology to allow applets to perform tasks on the client computer." with voice "Ralph" speak "However, you will probably need a more powerful computer and a higher-speed Internet connection to fully appreciate its power." with voice "Ralph" |
| speak "Smart Web Pages will emerge, with intelligent agent coupled with knowledge base, infeerence engine and personal profile." with voice "Kathy"
speak "For example, HyperInfo Canada Inc. is working on a series of Collabor-agent Services to generate pay-per-use personalised information." with voice "Kathy" |
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| speak "Here is a partial list of Free-Nets in Canada, in alphabetical order." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Calgary Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Dial-up, 403-282-4075, or 403-282-3707" with voice "Kathy" speak "Edmonton Free-Net" with voice "Fred" speak "Dial-up, 403-428-3929" with voice "Kathy"
speak "Halifax Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Dial-up, 902-494-8006" with voice "Kathy"
-- speak "Montreal Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "National Capital Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Saint John's Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Saskatoon Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Toronto Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Vancouver Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Victoria Free-Net" with voice "Fred"
speak "Winnipeg Free-Net" with voice "Fred" |
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| speak "Here is a partial list of commercial Internet Service Providers with more-than a local presence, in alphabetical order. Note that there are very few providers with Canada-wide coverage." with voice "Kathy"
speak "If you are on the National Capital Free-Net, type go net-dir, that is Golf, Oscar, space, November, Echo, Tango, dash, Delta, India, Romeo, for a comprehensive list of Internet Service Providers." with voice "Kathy" |
| speak "Channel One Internet Services" with voice "Fred" speak "Telephone, 613-236-8601" with voice "Kathy" speak "Fax, 613-236-8764" with voice "Kathy"
speak "Cycor Communications" with voice "Fred"
speak "Global Connect, Inc." with voice "Fred"
speak "HookUp Communications" with voice "Fred"
speak "i-Star Internet" with voice "Fred"
-- speak "Netcom" with voice "Fred"
speak "ServiceTech, Inc." with voice "Fred"
speak "UU-Net Canada" with voice "Fred"
speak "World-linx" with voice "Fred" |
