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Mastering the Basics A. The best setting for your monitor is a minimum monitor setting of 800 X 600 pixels with thousands of colors. This is because screen resolution, which indicates picture sharpness. B. Avoid using all caps in your e-mails so it is less difficult to read and it will not look like you are shouting at that person. C. Emoticons are expressions you create using the characters on your keyboard, like smiley faces. Example: ;-) D. Spamming is when you indiscriminately post unrelated comments, or worse E. F. G. H. advertisements. Flaming is when you might offend someone unintentionally. Two abbreviations you can use in e-mail messages to shorten the text are: <BTW> means By the Way, and <ROTFL> means Rolling on the Floor Laughing. FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) are handy documents to read before asking questions. Internet started in the 1960s when it grew out of an experiment by the U.S> Department of Defense. The DoD wanted to create a computer network that would continue to function in the event of disaster, such as a nuclear war. Chat rooms are the Internet equivalent of 24-hour coffee shops, with people eager to gab around the clock. It lets you communicate with friends and family. On the Internet, many different communications go on at the same time because different software applications accomplish different tasks. Data-carrying capacity of telephone lines is known as bandwidth. Connecting to the Internet via DSL lines, satellite, cable and wireless networks increases bandwidth dramatically, making the Web much more useful. The incubator for many of the emerging technologies shaping the future is known as Internet2. Internet2 transmits data at speeds up to 2.4 gigabits per second45,000 times faster than a 56 Kbps modem.

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