# 1995 VHS • Discovering the Internet Video Tutorial 60 FPS

A three-lesson video tutorial on the Internet and World Wide Web produced in 1995, hosted by Scott Reynolds, who frames the instruction around his work as an archaeologist researching dinosaurs with a colleague named Kathy. The program is designed for home users connecting to the Web for the first time and uses Netscape Navigator on Windows 95 as the demonstration browser throughout. Lesson one, running from 01:31 to 08:24, distinguishes between the Internet, the World Wide Web, and commercial online services such as the Microsoft Network, Prodigy, and America Online. It covers the Internet's origins with four computers in the 1960s Department of Defense ARPANET project, the development of HTTP and browser protocols, and the cost structures and limitations of commercial online services versus direct Internet access providers. Lesson two begins at 10:04 and covers selecting an Internet access provider with a SLIP or PPP account, dialing in and connecting, launching Netscape Navigator, navigating web pages using hypertext links, understanding and reading URLs including FTP and Gopher prefixes, using the browser's history list and bookmark feature, downloading a GIF image file to a local folder, configuring email and newsgroup preferences, and basic email composition. Lesson three begins at 40:22 and covers three methods of web searching: following hypertext chains, navigating subject directories, and using search engines described as robot programs. Gopher is presented at…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1995
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-DiscoveringtheInternetVideoTutorial1995)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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