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When the web was created in the early to mid ‘90s, the way we thought about it is like pages like pages in a book. If you have a book you’re reading and you want to get back to a page in that book, what do you do? You bookmark it. It’s the same basic idea.
 

A bookmark is a way of getting back to a page on the internet that is located on some site on the internet. You just want to get back to it, so you bookmark it.

You do this typically by going to the Bookmark menu. Sometimes there may be a button on the toolbar toward the top of the window that has a little plus symbol on the button. Whatever way you do it, you hit the button or go to the menu that says “Bookmarks” and hit the option that says “Add bookmark” or “Add favorite,” in the case of Internet Explorer.

Excerpt from transcription of audio lesson - What is A Bookmark - see source for full audio & transcript.

I’ve been telling people for years to avoid Internet Explorer. No web browser is perfect and immune to all potential threats, but IE isn’t even that good a browser in my opinion (so why use it even ignoring the potential security issues?).  Anyway, here’s the latest reason to switch to ANY browser other than Microsoft’s:

Microsoft has issued a ‘critical’ security alert that affects 900million people using its Internet Explorer web browser.

The computer giant warned of a newly-discovered flaw in Windows that could be exploited by hackers to steal personal details or take over computers.

The glitch is so severe it potentially affects every user of Internet Explorer.

Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari browsers are all unaffected by the threat

Source: Microsoft security flaw ‘affects 900m people using Internet Explorer’ | Mail Online