Browser and Email Exercises


1. Given the following server addresses, open a location, make the proper additions to turn them into Web addresses, and go to each. Notice the association between site and servername and d

2. What web page is displayed when you open Netscape? What is its URL?

3. Go to the home page for Yahoo! Using the SEARCH feature, find three web sites that deal with bungee jumping. What are their URLs?

  • Trace backwards on the URL http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/RR to identify the source in which this resource appears. What is the title of the first page you reach? If you delete everything after ipl.sils.umich.edu and search, what is the title of the page you retrieve? (Note: Before doing so, you might want to look at what this document contains . . . and bookmark it.)

    Email Exercises

    1. Create and send a message

    2. Ask at least two people for their email addresses. Click on "Compose Message" button to write and send a short, entertaining message to them. Ask them to reply to your messages.

    3. Bring your new messages to your screen. Select a message to read by clicking on its notification line. Print it by clicking on the "Print" button.

    4. Reply and print, save.
    Click on "Reply" button to send an email response back to someone who sent you a message. Include that person's original message with your response (but, you can select and delete all the header data) so that they can keep track of the topic and what's been said. Print out your reply before you send it. Save the outgoing message as a permanent record by clicking in the "Save Outgoing Message" box.

    5. Forward a message. With a received message on your screen, click on the "Forward" button and send a copy of the message to a third person. Include your personal comments about the message at the top of the message section above the forwarded message. (Again, select and delete the heading information). Again use the "Forward" option to send a message to a third person. This time, intersperse your personal comments within the forwarded message.

    6. Download a message to your computer. With a message on your screen, click on the "Save As" option in the File drop-down menu (first item on the Netscape tool bar). Keep track of where you save it.

    7. Find downloaded message. Open Word Processing program. Find the directory and file. Click on "Open". Important: On a PC, and possibly on a Mac, you need to specify that you are searching for "All files" or "Text" files. Downloaded messages from the Internet will be in ASCII, not in the proprietary languages, like Word.

    8. Delete a message. Remove one message from your list of incoming messages using the "Delete" button.

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