eMachines el1331 User Guide

Chapter 2: Setting Up and Getting Started

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2 Insert the other end of the modem cable 

into a telephone wall jack. (The modem 

will not work with digital or PBX 

telephone lines.)

3 If you want, you can connect a telephone 

to the PHONE jack on the modem on the 

back of your computer.

Using the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a multimedia window to the 

Internet that gives you access to millions of 

information sources.
Information on the Web comes to you on 

Web pages

, 

which are electronic documents that you view using a 

Web page display program called a 

browser

. You can 

use any of the commercially available Web browsers, 

like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
Web pages can contain text, animations, music, and 

other multimedia features. A group of related Web 

pages is called a 

Web site

. You can access Web sites 

to shop, track investments, read the news, download 

programs, and much more.
You can explore a Web site or visit other Web sites by 

clicking areas on a Web page called 

links 

or 

hyperlinks

. 

A link may be colored or underlined text, a picture, or 

an animated image. You can identify a link by moving 

the mouse pointer over it. If the pointer changes to a 

hand, the item is a link. 
To learn more about using the Web browser features, 

click Help in the menu bar.

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