http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/help.html (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Netscape, 
Eudora and For an overview of the Internet, what it is, how it developed and so on, visit the AARNet/Internet Demonstration prepared by Deidre Schutz, Network Librarian, Monash University Library.
For some great fun why not try online chatting on our Chatline Page. Here you can talk in real time to other Internet users in a variety of rooms.
If you are using the Netscape browser which is taking the world by storm then please read the Heartwarming Introduction to get you started. For more detailed help and information on Netscape look in the Online Manual and to learn how to use it look at the help pages. You should also check out the Netscape Tutorial.For those of you using Mosaic then look at the page Collected Information Concerning Mosaic and HTML for guides and help on using Mosaic. Also contains information on creating your own web pages using the HTML format. Finally, our shell users who dial in and log onto our SUN machine will use the text based browser called lynx.
Mailing List information can be found on our Newsgroups and Mailing Lists page.
With Usenet news we imagine our PPP users will use Netscape as their newsreader. I find it an easy to use way of viewing and participating in newsgroups. Information on how to access newsgroups from Netscape can be found here. For our shell account users we hope to load Tin as the newsreader for them to use. This is not there yet but we hope it will be soon. Look here for help on using Tin. Note: the UNIX prompt for our shell account users will be different to what is displayed here but everything else should be similar. Eventually we aim to hide the UNIX prompt from you and have you get into Pine, Lynx, Tin and so on via a menu interface. Watch for this!!
New user should visit Information for new Usenet readers. Here you will find pointers to all the most important sources of information about Usenet news, including the newsgroups news.newusers.questions where newusers post questions about anything to do with the Internet, (I use this groupa lot and you get fabulous answers back - try it), and news.announce.newgroups where discussions and voting on new globalnewsgroups takes place, (if you would like to create a new global newsgroup check here for how it is done).
Two Usenet tutorials all users should look at:
Our shell account users should also check out the Chebucto Freenet's Help Desk in Canada. This is brilliant stuff and will help our shell users tremendously
The first place you should look for help is the VICNET Tips and Tricks Page especially VICNET Help Sheet 5: Modems and Initialisation Strings
Supra Modems - the ones which come with the VICNET software and modem packs. If you have any questions about these modems or the VICNET software packs email support at FOSH Australia
Good places to look for help include:
Finally a good ftp site to check out for discussions, reviews, comparative statistics, program source code and much more for and about modems is ftp://oak.oakland.edu/pub/misc/modems.
A great training course on everything to do with the Internet and one we highly recommend you checking out is the Internet Survival Skills course brought to you by the Honolulu Community College - University of Hawaii. The tutor for the course is DR Kenneth Hanserling Ed.D and he aims to take you step by step through all you need to know to get started using the Internet.This one is over in Hawaii. For one closer to home take the World Wide Web course at the University of Sydney. This is a great course for learning how to use the web and one we highly recommend you try out. Check out the quizzes at the end of each module.
Worldwide Campus at Spectrum Virtual
University have some great courses. Check out their current course list to
see if their are any courses you would like to join (enrollment deadline is
Sunday 28th January). The courses range from Internet courses (very popular)
to pyschology, creative writing and much more.
Some great starting points for beginners are given below...
To aid our users in preparing web pages we have put together some HTML software packs for both our Windows and Macintosh users. Windows users can now use Netscape offline to view their web pages by using a dummy winsock.dll file. Head over to Best WWW sites for examples of well designed homepages.
For a full list of all the html editors out there for PC, Mac and Unix platforms check out Gabriel's HTML Editor List.
When you have created your web page you can check its syntax at the HTML Validation Service and then alert the world to its existence by using the Submit-It service.
Here are some links to good online help and tutorials on HTML...
Want to grab some public domain images check out these sites:
I think that will do it for now. If anyone finds anything useful on their travels they think should be on here or have any comments to make about this page then please email me.