Don’t worry about not knowing as much about the Internet as you’d like to or need to.
Most people could use a little help in this area!

Travelling the Internet superhighway (a.k.a. surfing, but that’s a different metaphor)
Think of the Internet metaphorically as a vast highway of interconnected roads along which there are uncountable places (some savory, some not so!) to visit and do a variety of activities from simple viewing, to “chatting” (exchanging text messages), to buying and selling and much, much more!

To get to these places on the “Internet superhighway,” we need to take a “bus.” Of the many “buses” available for your Mac, the one Apple supplies is called Safari. Other “buses” that you may acquire to use have names like Firefox, Camino, Opera.
(Note: the “bus” called Internet Explorer no longer serves the Apple community—at least on new Macs. You need a “personal computer running Windows” (commonly called a PC) to use it.)

Each of these “buses” is equipped with or has access to 20 or more search engines (Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, or AllTheWeb, for starters)—tools that enable you to find websites, from among the millions on the ‘net, those that may be of interest to you. Safari automatically enables you to use the Google search engine—read on….

Safari’s Toolbar, in the middle, has an address box containing the URL (address of the website) you’re currently connected to. While you can type a new address (URL) in this box, doing so is usually more trouble than it’s worth because of the precision required.

Instead, in the Google Search Box on the right side,
type in a topic, a question, or even part of a website address, then press return.

The search results page that appears next shows a list of possible websites—arranged by Google from most to least likely to meet your needs—perhaps millions of sites. It is then your responsibility to choose which of these results to click on—to see if they actually provide what you’re seeking.

Here’s a website (a little cluttered, perhaps) with lots of basic tutorial pages. You’ll find some articles are Windows-centric (not thinking of Mac users), but as the Internet is meant to be used by all operating systems, most of the material here will be helpful to Mac users, too. All of its active links are coloured blue.

To go to the site, just click on the image below.
Don’t be surprised if the page you find there looks different from the image below.
Most websites are updated (changed) frequently. The site’s info should still help.