How do I tell a friend how to find a web site?

For example: "Open your browser, type www.dot.com."
Or: if you have already started you browser, "go to www.example.com. "
Or: "Go to the cycnet web site."

A: All three sentences above are correct.

Is it correct to say the following:

"I surfed the net."

"Rita is always at her computer."

"Do you have access to the internet ?"

A: All three sentences above are correct.

Additional vocabulary

download a file = copy something from the internet so that you can use it on your own computer.

upgrade your browser = change your browser to the newest version. For example, instead of using Internet Explorer 4, download Internet Explorer 5.

add a page to your favourites or bookmark the page = saving the address of a site you often visit in the favourites / bookmark section of your browser.

launch your browser = start or open your browser.

add a posting to a newsgroup = send a message to a newsgroup.

send an email or email someone

my computer crashed = your computer stops working and needs to be restarted.

the server is down = you can't see a website because the computer that powers this website is not working.

cannot find server = an error message you get because the server is down, or because the website no longer exists, or because you made a mistake typing in the address.

26.1921年Chaplinesque（卓别林风格）Characteristic of the first international film star, i.e. sentimental, pathetic and on the side of the underdog. 指历史上第一位国际影星卓别林的表演特色，即感情用事、令人同情和总站在受害者一边的人物形象。

27.1922年　Gigolo（被雇用的男伴） A young man "kept" financially by an older woman in return for his attentions. 指上年纪的妇女为得到照料而"供养"的青年男子。（Gigolo也可解释为舞男。）

28.1923年 Spoonerism（斯本内现象）Metathesis (accidental transposition of letters or syllables) named after the Rev William Archibald Spooner, dean and warden of New College, Oxford.以牛津新学院院长威廉.斯本内（1844－1930）命名的首音互换法。斯本内擅长首音互换。

29.1924年　Surrealism(超现实主义)"Beyond realism"，the dominant force in Western art between the unconscious. 两次世界大战之间西方的主导艺术流派，遵循弗洛伊德的潜意识理论。

30.1925年British Summer Time(英国夏时制)　Introduced by the Daylight Saving Act, and now useless and irritating.根据英国的夏时制法案开始实行；现在看来不仅毫无用处，还令人恼火。

31.　1926年　Television(电视)　Technically a barbarism. The correctly formed word would be either proculvision or teleopsis. 严格地从字面上说，这是个不规范词语。正确的构词应是"proculvision"或"eleopsis"。

（待续）