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Learn the Net News--a free weekly service from Learn the Net.com
http://www.learnthenet.comVol. 2, No. 29 -- Week of July 30, 2000
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Welcome to Learn the Net News.
As many of you know, I’m a big booster for backing up your data. There’s just too many ways to lose valuable information to neglect this tedious, but vital chore. This week, learn how to backup files using a CD recorder. It’s a fast and efficient way to prevent a data disaster.
Our Web Tour last week visited the castles of England. Keeping with this historical theme, this week journey back in time for a look at ancient civilizations and prehistoric people, from cave dwellers to the frozen mummy nicknamed the Ice Maiden. It’s a fascinating look at life B.I. – Before the Internet.
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"Top Ten Things You Can Do on the Net This Week" include:
- Get creative with crayons and markers:
2. Explore the life of jazz great Jelly Roll Morton:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/ws/front/0,1413,77,00.html3. Enjoy a live view of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico:
http://www.cammunity.com/viewcam.jsp?camid=11844. Ponder haiku movie reviews:
http://www.igs.net/~mtr/haiku-reviews.html5. Learn some Windows keyboard shortcuts:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q126/4/49.asp6. Discover the meaning of your dreams:
http://www.dreamdoctor.com/dictionary.shtml7. Check the time around the world:
http://www.worldtime.com/cgi-bin/wt.cgi8. View early 20th century Balkan photographs:
http://www.journale.com/balkanportraits/index.html9. Tour a collection of odd electrical devices:
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/10. Grill up some new dishes:
http://www.outofthefryingpan.com/grill/What’s your favorite site? Let us know, please.
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One question that I’ve never heard a plausible answer to is: How many web pages are online? My current favorite search engine, Google, claims to index over one billion pages. While this sounds like a lot, a new study reveals that it’s just a fraction of the available web documents. According to BrightPlanet [
http://www.brightplanet.com ], a software company in South Dakota, the Internet is actually 500 times larger than originally thought, adding up to an astounding 550 billion documents. Here’s why the vast majority of these documents go undetected:Search engines send out software agents, called spiders, to index web pages. But it turns out that most documents are now stored in databases and can’t be readily indexed this way. These pages won’t show up when you use popular search tools like Yahoo!, AltaVista and Google. To find them, you have to go to the site and do a search using the site’s own engine. Keep this in mind when looking for specific information.
If you’re curious as to how search engines work, view our interactive animation at
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/search.html . If you’re interested in seeing the kinds of information that resides in databases, visit CompletePlanet [ http://www.completeplanet.com/ ]. The site has an extensive listing of sites divided into categories such as Health & Medicine and Travel & Geography.------------------------------------------------
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