Question: what to do when you are just learning the computer? do not understand much about the computer.

Answer: I didn't start learning this stuff till I was 58.  I ' m 67 now and really having a cool time.\n\nIf you got onto the internet, which you must have done, in order to ask the question, you have gone a big step forward.\n\nNext, get email.  You have to sign up for some account somewhere and a lot of people sign up for yahoo because it is free.  Or maybe you already have an account but don't know how to use it.\n\nYou have to say more exactly what you know, and don't know.\n\nAnother thing to do that is fun is: look up at the very tippy top of the page--this whole thing from corner to corner of your monitor is a page.  There are some symbols, like, a green arrow, then a small downward arrow, then maybe a gray arrow, then another small downward arrow, then two blue arrows going round, then comes the X, and then a house.  Finally, there's this space that starts out  http://     Ok, use your mouse. Go up to that space.  Press down on your left side of the mouse and a straight line will show.  (That's a curser)  Move your mouse (while keeping that left side pressed down) straight across that long space.  You will cause it to be 'blocked out'.  Then find 'delete' on your keyboard.\nPress it.\n\nYou should have a clear long white space.\n\nNow, type in a word, something about which you want to know, like, cooking, or Harley Davidson, or flowers.  I don't know--pick a noun.  Then move that mouse over to the green circle outside the box, press on the little white arrow inside the circle.\n\nYou have just begun a 'search'.\n\nThink: "Move and click/ that's the trick!"\n\nA page of titles will show up.  Click on one of them. (Always left click.)  Another page will open up.  You have just joined the world of us who 'search'.  \n\nThat's a beginning!  gh
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