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An important part of the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW). This comprises mil- lions of pages containing information on almost any subject you can think of. A group of interlinked pages is known as a ‘website’. You will be able to find websites about subjects as diverse as the Houses of Parliament, Leicester City FC, or Englebert Humperdinck. To get to a website you either need to know its address or look for it using a ‘search engine’. Put simply, the Internet is millions of computers around the world connected to each other. It was originally developed to connect laboratories engaged in government re- search, but now millions of people every day use it for anything from sending Valen- tines to selling cereal. When you're on the Internet, your computer is connected to others by a mixture of telephone wires, cables and satellites. This allows people to exchange large amounts of information, pictures, video and audio quickly. The Inter- net is easy to use and offers you the chance to research and share news, views and information with people across the world. What is the Internet? Websites This sheet will explain: • What the Internet is. • What you can find on websites. • What a web address (URL) is. • How to input web addresses. • How to use a search engine to find informa- tion on the world wide web. #7 How to use the Internet East Midlands Oral History Archive Information Sheet How do I use the Internet? Usually, but not always, a web address (sometimes known as a URL – Uniform Re- source Locator) will look like this: http://www.le.ac.uk (the address for the University of Leicester). It is very important to observe the placing of the full stops and forward slashes in these addresses. Web addresses Centre for Urban History University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH Phone: 0116 252 5065 Fax: 0116 252 5062 Email: [email protected] www.le.ac.uk/emoha East Midlands Oral History Archive One good place for historians to start using the internet is the Internet for Historians site which you can find by typing http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/history/ into the address box of your browser (see over).
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An important part of the Internet is the World Wide Web (WWW). This comprises mil-lions of pages containing information on almost any subject you can think of. A groupof interlinked pages is known as a ‘website’. You will be able to find websites aboutsubjects as diverse as the Houses of Parliament, Leicester City FC, or EnglebertHumperdinck.
To get to a website you either need to know its address or look for it using a ‘searchengine’.
Put simply, the Internet is millions of computers around the world connected to eachother. It was originally developed to connect laboratories engaged in government re-search, but now millions of people every day use it for anything from sending Valen-tines to selling cereal. When you're on the Internet, your computer is connected toothers by a mixture of telephone wires, cables and satellites. This allows people toexchange large amounts of information, pictures, video and audio quickly. The Inter-net is easy to use and offers you the chance to research and share news, views andinformation with people across the world.
What is the Internet?
Websites
This sheet willexplain:
• What the Internet is.
• What you can find onwebsites.
• What a web address(URL) is.
• How to input webaddresses.
• How to use a searchengine to find informa-tion on the world wideweb.
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How to use theInternet
East Midlands Oral History
Archive
Information SheetHow do I use the
Internet?
Usually, but not always, a web address (sometimes known as a URL – Uniform Re-source Locator) will look like this: http://www.le.ac.uk (the address for the Universityof Leicester).
It is very important to observe the placing of the full stops and forward slashes inthese addresses.
Web addresses
Centre for Urban HistoryUniversity of Leicester
LeicesterLE1 7RH
Phone: 0116 252 5065Fax: 0116 252 5062
Email: [email protected]/emoha
East Midlands Oral History
Archive
One good place for historians to startusing the internet is the Internet forHistorians site which you can find bytypinghttp://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/history/into the address box of your browser(see over).
Below is the address for the search engine ‘Google’ as seen in the ‘address’ box ofa typical Microsoft screen:
Search engines
Search engines are websites which find things for you when you give them a ‘key’word or words to look for. An example of a search engine is ‘Google’, which isshown below (this is the UK version):
Search tipsAs shown in the Googlepicture, you enter ‘key’words – such as ‘oralhistory’ – and press ‘Enter’or ‘Google Search’. TheInternet is dominated by theUSA and you may need tospecify that it is the UK youare interested in whensearching for something.Also, different searchengines produce differentresults, and some generallyseem to be better thanothers. It often pays to dothe same search usingseveral engines.
Examples of othersearch engines are:
Yahoohttp://uk.yahoo.com/
Ask Jeeveshttp://www.askjeeves.com/
Alta Vistahttp://www.altavista.com
A direct approach – searching for ‘Oral history in England’ for instance – will provideuseful results but will not pick up all instances of oral history in England which areon the web. Being more specific will help, and be prepared to modify your ‘key’words e.g. searching for childhood memories could be done using the words ‘child’,‘children’, ‘kids’, ‘memories’, ‘reminiscences’, ‘recollections’, ‘histories’ etc. Using abit of imagination in your search will provide better results.
You will soon find out that a site may come up on your search just because thewords ‘oral’ and ‘history’ appear in the same sentence somewhere on that site(dentistry comes to mind!). However, search engines do provide information on howto ‘refine’ your search. As with most things, practice will improve your skills.
The first two results of asearch for ‘oral history’using Google and tickingthe ‘pages from the UK’option. You can go to eitherof these sites by clicking onthe underlined title of thesite.
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