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X-Files

Because so few Windows 98 topics start with the letter X, I thought it might be fun to show you how to locate the X-Files web site on the Internet:

1. Initiate a connection to the Internet (refer to the section titled "Dial-Up Networking" for more information about this).
2. Click the Internet Explorer icon on your desktop (see Figure X.1) to start your web browser.

Figure X.1

3. Your Internet Explorer start page will appear. Type the URL for Fox TV's X-Files web site (http://www.thex-files.com/) and press Enter. The web site's main page is shown in Figure X.2.
4. Click the Episode Guide hyperlink to view the page for accessing information about each of the X-Files episodes from various seasons. You'll reach the screen shown in Figure X.3.
5. To view a list of the episodes from a specific season, click the season
you want. For example, click Season 5 to view the screen shown in Figure X.4.
6. Click the title of the episode you want to view, or click another option to move elsewhere in the X-Files site. For example, if you click Unusual Suspects (the title of the very first show of Season 5), a detailed view of that show's contents appears, as shown in Figure X.5.

Figure X.2

Figure X.3


NOTE: If you scroll past the end of the episode's synopsis, you will find the credits for all the show's participants. Underlined names are hyperlinks to additional pages about that character or actor.

Figure X.4

Figure X.5

7. Notice the menu bar along the left side of the screen (refer to Figure X.5). This bar contains links to other pages within the web site that relate to this episode. Click the Print Ad link to view the advertisement that was used in newspapers, magazines, and so on to promote this episode (see Figure X.6).

Figure X.6

You have mastered the basics for moving around the official Fox Television
X-Files web site. All you need to do now is wait patiently until the start of next season.

X Windows

X Windows refers to a graphical user interface for a client workstation that either runs on some form of UNIX (an older, multitasking, text-based operating system typically found in academic or scientific communities) or connects to a UNIX file server. X Windows has nothing to do with any form of Microsoft Windows; Microsoft has never even produced any X Windows software.

x86

x86 is a shortened version of the term 80x86, in which the x equals a number that relates directly to the code number for an Intel Corporation central processing unit (CPU). For example, one of the early popular personal computers used an Intel processor known as an 80286 CPU, or 286 for short. Whenever you see the term x86, you should recognize that the computer has an Intel processor and runs some version of Microsoft Windows.

Yahoo!

Yahoo! was one of the first search engine sites that became a commercial success on the World Wide Web (WWW). If you gain a cursory knowledge of how to use Yahoo!, it will make it that much easier to use other Internet search providers. To use Yahoo!, do the following:

1. Initiate a connection to the Internet (refer to the section titled "Dial-Up Networking" for more information).
2. Click the Internet Explorer icon on your desktop (see Figure Y.1) to start your web browser.

Figure Y.1

3. Your Internet Explorer start page will appear. Type the URL for Yahoo!'s web site (http://www.yahoo.com/) and press Enter to view the site shown in Figure Y.2.
4. For the sake of example, let's conduct a search for KPMG, one of the largest public-accounting/systems consulting firms in the world. To start the search, type the basic search criteria (in this case, the name of the company) in the search box, and then click the Search button, as shown in Figure Y.3.
5. You are taken to the first Search Results screen, shown in Figure Y.4. This screen lists all sites that match your search criteria.

Figure Y.2

Figure Y.3

6. Click the entry in either the Yahoo! Category Matches list or the Yahoo! Site Matches list that you feel best matches your search criteria. For this example, click the entry in the Yahoo! Category Matches section; this will open the screen shown in Figure Y.5.
7. Click the hyperlink for the site you desire. In this case, you might click the KPMG International link to open its site, shown in Figure Y.6.

Figure Y.4

Figure Y.5

8. If you didn't reach the site you were expecting, you can return to the Search Results screen by clicking the down-arrow button just to the right of the left-arrow toolbar button and then choosing Yahoo! Search Results from the menu, as shown in Figure Y.7.

Figure Y.6

Figure Y.7


NOTE: If you are not using the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser, step 8 may not work for you.
9. You are returned to the search results page. Scroll to the bottom of the page, where you will find a Search box containing your original search criteria (see Figure Y.8). Repeat steps 1-7 to find a different site.

Figure Y.8

10. When you finish surfing the Internet, close the web browser (click the File menu and choose Exit).

Zines Zines is a slang term for an Internet-based electronic magazine, book, or paper, which is typically found as a part of a collection of online web-related magazines (The Journal of Eclectic Journeys is an example of a good zine). Countless zines are available (or you can write and post your own). This short list gives you some suggestions of where you might want to look on the Internet:
Site Content
www.dominis.com/Zines/ E-Zines Database
www.student.com For college students
www.slip.net/~scmetro/kids.htm Entertainment for everyone
www.sirius.com/~mcmardon/words/ The Journal of Eclectic Journeys
www.webreference.com/magazines/ A comprehensive listing
www.zinebook.com The Book of Zines


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