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TIME 35 minutes USING YOUR WEB BROWSER Now we get to the fun part! Let’s try browsing the web. Once the internet connection is up and running you need to start up your web browser, which is a program on your PC. On Windows computers, start the Internet Explorer program by clicking on the Internet Explorer logo. On Macintosh computers, start the Safari browser. A web browser is your portal to the internet. It’s what lets you view web pages and follow links within pages (you’ll see what we mean in a moment). Internet Explorer and Safari aren’t the only web browsers: there’s also Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Opera and a number of others. But Internet Explorer comes with your computer, so we’ll start with it. Once the browser is started, you’ll see an Address bar at the top of the window. This is where we will type the address of the site you want to visit. On most computers, there’s a default website that the browser will automatically go to when it starts. For example, most Windows computers will automatically load the NineMSN web page. We can change the default page (called your Home page) later. We’ll start off by browsing Wikipedia, the internet’s most popular free online encyclopedia. While traditional encyclopedias are written by academics and experts, Wikipedia is created and continually updated by general internet users, so the information is not just Surprisingly, perhaps, it’s also fairly accurate too. Take your mouse pointer and click on the Address bar. Now into the Address bar type , then press Enter.