Using AOL to get to the Web

During the Spring Quarter of 1998, American River College Student, Paul Hodgkins drafted this letter to me explaining how to successfully launch into the Internet from America On Line. The first five (5) figures demonstrates HOW NOT TO do this, after many attempts, Paul found the secret and shows this in the last two (2) figures below.
Is this how most of you with AOL run up a brick wall? I hope Pauls explainations help you enjoy 'Surf'n the Net' from AOL a little bit better! And, a very special thanks to Paul for this page!

Why I Couldn't Make It Work Consistently:

Figure 1
	Figure 1 - AOL "Welcome" screen, Internet access button at the bottom. Pushing it brings up...
Figure 2
	Figure 2 - which defaults to aol.com. Being a novice who wanted to go to the Web, I pushed the "Go To The Web" button thinking that it would to, well, you know. That brought up (predictably enough, in retrospect),
Figure 3
	Figure 3 - the AOL home page. Still hoping to get to this Web thing, I clicked "there" to search the Web, which only brings up...
Figure 4
	Figure 4 - AOL's NetFind, which apparently doesn't speak URL, as when your's was entered, yielding...
Figure 5
	Figure 5 - a 70% hit on New TWAS President, which of course has nothing to do with what I was looking for. The lower listings get progressively worse.
"How I Stopped Shooting Myself in the Foot and Won the War!"
Figure 6
	Figure 6 - The URL is entered in the scrolling field to the left of the "GO TO THE WEB" button bringing up...
Figure 7
	Figure 7 - Bullseye!"

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Why I Couldn't Make It Work Consistently:

"How I Stopped Shooting Myself in the Foot and Won the War!"