how-to-use-the-internet

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Why?

Changing times and a forgetful youth have forced me to write this +guide.

I am increasingly disturbed by the amount of people I meet (young and +old) that navigate their lives at least in part online, but are unable +to use the internet for it's intended purpose: finding infomation. +Writing to someone or posting a picture of your cat seems to be second +nature for most people, but converting a picture from a PDF or looking +up a study (or even a word!) you saw in an article is something else +entirely.

For the most part, it is not anyone's fault or laziness. It's the +fault of what the internet has become. For one, there's just so +much more stuff now; it's hard to know exactly where to start +and who to trust. And so much of that stuff is now garbage, +either in the way it's presented--with disruptive ads that don't close +correctly--or in the way it's written--vague, misleading, or straight +incorrect. But for seconds: no one really teaches you how to use this +thing do they? There are no courses on "How to use a search engine" or +"How to find good posts on a forum," yet these are the kinds of skills +you really need if you want to navigate the modern world without getting +constantly distracted, misled, or totally lost.

There are of course, countless guides on "netiquette" geared towards +every possible internet subculture you can find. While many of them have +influenced this document and give many helpful tips on writing good +informative posts, none of them really go over what I think is most +important: what to do with the information you're reading.

This will probably be an evolving document as new services and +websites become available (or go down), but much of this material in the +beginning should be pretty generally applicable no matter what services +are available.

How to use a web browser

How to use a search engine

As for which search engine to use: you should use all of them, until +you get the results you need. In my experience, none of the major search +engines are particularly good and I get inconsistent searches on all of +them depending on what I'm searching. There is much preaching these days +about privacy concerns, but to be honest I don't believe any service is +more "private" than another. These are all privacy nightmares, your best +bet is to just search often and as varied as you can.

How to read and find +scholarly articles

How to use Wikipedia

A common complaint lodged at me whenever I recommend Wikipedia is +that it's not a source of truth since they found X mistake somewhere, or +made Y edit when they were a teenager that's still there. No one has +ever (or should ever) claim Wikipedia is reliable. Frankly, you should +not consider any source to be reliable, but that's a separate +issue. If you know how to use Wikipedia you can use it to get closer to +a true understanding of whatever you're studying.

For starters, as a general rule, you should not trust anything you +read on a topic that is less than 20 years old. We're still living +through the history at this point and new things can come to light.

How to find articles +with Google Scholar

Advanced Topics

How to use tor to browse +anonymously

Many in the advertising world will boast about using a VPN for +anonymity, or using a VPN in conjuction with Tor to "increase privacy." +This is simply a misunderstanding of terms. A VPN provides +privacy of the user's connection since it provides +encryption--only the VPN provider can "see" what is searched. The goal +of Tor is anonymity not privacy. Anonymity means "no one knows +who you are" not "no one knows what you're doing." Technically, traffic +is encrypted between nodes of the Tor service, so some level of privacy +is provided as well, but this is most effective when using hidden +services, not using Tor in general.

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