Internet connection

Diana = D

William = W

D: Willy, this new computer is absolutely wonderful.

W: Richard and Marilyn bought it for me to my birthday.

D: They’re smart and so thoughtful. You are very lucky, Willy, to have such nice friends.

W: Is something wrong, Diana;

D: No, nothing. The only problem is that I have a computer but I haven’t got the Internet connection yet. I do know no how to connect.

W: I can help you. What’s the matter?

D: You know I do need the internet connection but I do not want to bother you.

W: come on, Diana. What’s up? We are friends for yers. Let me help you. You are a student and the internet is very helpful because it’s a huge database of knowledge, from the pictures to an analysis of quantum` mechanics. You are to have the Internet because of its near instantaneous communication and huge database of knowledge.

D: But I don’t not event know how to get in the Internet!

W: I’ll show you. It is easy. Then you should practice it and after couple times you’ll be a professional user. I swear!!!

D: Are you kidding?

W: No. I am serious. Cheer up!!! To go on the Internet And do a search for information one needs, firstly we should by and connect a modem. Look here. It is easy to connect. Let’s go and I’ll show you how I have connected my computer to the internet. Look here.

D: OK. I see.

W: So. Have done this, you should install an Internet Explorer.

D: What is that?

W: It is so-called “browser”. It helps you to connect and surf the Net. I’m fact< there are several browsers: Explorer, Netscape Navigator, opera, Mozilla, etc. you can chose whatever you want. They work on the same principle. There are two ways to connect to the Internet: dial-up and broad band connections. We’ll use dial-up connection. It is cheaper. I am not going to explain you how to make a dial-up connection. I’ll give you the book Windows XP and you’ll read it there on your own. Ok?

D: Deal, Willy!

W: So, you have an internet connection and Internet explorer installed on you computer. What are you going to do then?

D: What?

W: You click on the Internet Explorer icon. Right here and wait while the program is loading and then look around. If we have a broadband connection, then we should be connected to the Internet at once. If not, we have to connect to dial-up service. Finally, if we want to do a search for data on the Internet, we are to type in the browser we use the address of this data. Also we can simply use the existing search-programs: the Google, Rambler, Yandex or Yahoo search programs. There you just should type want you need to find and wait until the search program screens search results.

Searching programs are connected or better say incorporate many popular informational networks of sites. So, we are getting our results in the same window. After we get our results, we simply choose whatever site best matches our query or keep on searching.

Besides data, one can get from the Internet; you can also send and receive e-mail or electronics mail. This internet service is cheaper then ordinary mail and much quicker. You can also get some news from the Internet; there are many news servers in the web.

D: Oh, Willy. It sounds well, but I need to practice it.

W: OK. Here it is the book I promised you. Tomorrow I’ll come and help you to connect to the Internet.

D: Thanks you, Willy. See you tomorrow at 5 p.m.

W: See you.