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Greater Cleveland PC Users Group
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Generan Meeting:  April 6

The next meeting of the Greater Cleveland PC Users Group will Saturday,
April 6th from 9:30 a.m. till Noon. We will be meeting in the auditorium
of the Main Classroom Building at Cleveland State University. 

America Online

America Online's User Group Program will be continuing its "Happy 21st
Birthday, User Groups Tour!" on April 6 in front of the Greater Cleveland
PC Users Group. Twenty one years ago the user group movement was born on
March 5 when Home Brew Computer Club met for the first time in a
California garage. The idea of organizing computer user groups spread
quickly throughout the country and has led to thousands of organizations
that encourage "users to help users."

AOL wants to first of all toast user groups on becoming "legal" and in the
process allow GCPCUG members to explore some of the newest features of
AOL's  latest 3.0 version of America Online. We will have the opportunity
to be among the first to see the latest changes and additions to the
largest and fastest growing provider of online services in the world.  AOL
currently offers its 4.5 million subscribers a wide variety of services,
including electronic mail, conferencing, software, computing support,
interactive magazines and newspapers and online classes, as well as easy
and affordable access to services of the Internet. 

A brief description of the newest features begins with Improved Launch
Speed. AOL has re-structured the way the America Online loads into memory
to speed up application launch. Progressive Rendering of AOL art work will
mean you no longer have to wait for each piece of art work to be
transmitted to your hard disk before using a new area on-line!  America
Online 3.0 for Windows now supports placing hyperlinks into e-mail.
Hyperlinks can be added by drag-and-drop (from Favorite Places, for
example), or by highlighting a piece of text and using a
Right-Mouse-Button click. This brings up a dialog-box which allows you to
type in the URL of the link  to which you wish to connect. They have also
made several improvements to the integrated World Wide Web Browser that
includes support for many new HTML 3.0 tags, including: background images
and colors, font colors, centering/right-justification, tables, and text
wrap-around images.

Appearing with AOL, will be their partner GNN. We will also see Global
Network Navigator, GNN, a separate service that combines the content and
context of one of the most trafficked Web sites to date; the power and
speed of an award-winning Web browser and software suite; comprehensive
Web directories and search tools; and free customer support. GNN also
offers consumers integrated self-publishing tools which allow members to
quickly and easily create their own home pages and link to their favorite
Web sites. GNN's broad network access - with local dial availability in
more than 600 cities -- makes it the first truly national full-featured
Internet service for consumers.


Like all our meetings, this meeting is free and open to the public. 
However, seating may be limited and will be on a first-come, first-served
basis. There will also be time for questions and answers and our other
regular features. See you there! Bring a friend, neighbor or co-worker and
introduce them to the GCPCUG.


Posted by Gail M. Hall    <aa571@cleveland.freenet.edu>
From Cleveland Free-Net   03/25/96