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Grex Info Item 218: HELP WWW
Entered by regnar on Thu Mar 16 00:54:28 UTC 1995:

HELP
I am a new user to the internet and I have been using the World Wide Web
and I keep getting these http://www things I would like to look up some
of the things under these things but I don't know how to.  I would really
appriciate it if someone could tell me how to access these things.
Another thing that I would like to know how to do, is to put a subject
line in the Email that I send.

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by robh on Thu Mar 16 01:55:22 1995:

Well, that's two completely different questions, I'll give it
a shot...

(A)  At the Ok: prompt, enter

        !lynx

This will put you into our WWW browsing program.  To select
your own place to go, hit the "g" command and then enter the
whole http://www... address you want.  Hit "h" if you need
help with Lynx.

Oh, and don't forget, you do need to be a member to access
any non-Grex sites.

(B)  Depends, what e-mail program do you use?

#2 of 8 by popcorn on Thu Mar 16 16:11:16 1995:

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#3 of 8 by regnar on Thu Mar 16 22:25:37 1995:

THANKS

#4 of 8 by nephi on Fri Mar 17 11:23:23 1995:

Isn't Pine a real CPU hog?

#5 of 8 by srw on Sat Mar 18 09:12:35 1995:

Rob is correct that Lynx is the proper surfboard for websurfing, 
if you have only a dialup connection to your web browser. Grex's
lynx is (unfortunately) unable to use the outgoing internet 
connection unless you are a member. I'd like to fix this, but
that's another question.

You may be able to connect to a public lynx client at
The U. of Kansas or Michigan or Michigan State universities.
These would give you access to the web, but are limited in other ways
(no "G" command, no private bookmarks, other things too).

If you are lucky enough to be packet-connected, you should be running
the browser on your PC/Mac/Workstation. Mosaic or Netscape are 
in this category. They understand URLs also.

#6 of 8 by bubbles on Sun Mar 19 14:37:11 1995:

Although us Real Internet Users like to sneer at Prodigy, they're now
offering a reasonably decent graphical Web browser for Windows users
(maybe also Mac, but not MS-DOS or other platforms).  And it doesn't take
any exotic kinds of connection beyond a Prodigy account. 

By the way:  
  http://www.well.com/www/bubbles/
~p

#7 of 8 by popcorn on Sun Mar 19 15:49:58 1995:

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#8 of 8 by remmers on Sun Mar 19 22:02:19 1995:

Nifty home page, bubbles.  Gave me a rush of text adventure nostalgia.

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