Learn the Internet In Interactive "Tour"

  • 11/01/96
Beginners and novices can now easily learn the basics of the Web and popular Internet tools with Internet the City, a CD-ROM tutorial. Through the use of digital movies and "city tour guides," the CD helps one learn e-mail, FTP, Usenet, Gopher, Telnet and IRC, plus how to navigate the Web. Internet the City explains these tools through five easy lessons with full-motion video and specific examples. In the NetCafe Online area, users can access their tour guide's favorite sites, scan the Web through a NetTaxi Search that provides access to five popular search engines (Magellan, Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek and Lycos), and peruse a glossary of Internet terms. Simply Interactive, Inc., San Jose, CA, (800) 335-5327, http://www.simply.com. W

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