The most common barrier to getting connected to the Internet is technophobia
- even people who are coping well with their computer can be frightened
of even attempting to get online!
You need just three things to get started:
- a computer with enough power to handle the software
- the fastest modem you can afford
(prices are constantly coming down)
- a reliable and full Internet connection
Computer power:
You can access the Internet with almost any computer, but if you haven’t
enough power to drive your browser software with your email program
and graphics viewer in the background, you’ll get very frustrated.
So you are advised to have at least a Pentium III 500Mhz machine with
64 MB of RAM (memory), or a Macintosh (PowerMac upwards) again with
64MB of RAM. If you can go higher ... do.
Throw
away that old modem