(This is the beginning of Sympatico's easy tutorial: "Learn about the Sympatico service and the Internet." It takes only about 15 minutes to go through it. When you're finished reading each page click on the yellow arrow at the bottom right of your screen to continue. You might need to scroll down to see it. The sidebar to the left lists many of the topics covered in the Sympatico Help section.)

The Sympatico service is the Canadian Internet service brought to you by Canada's telephone companies and their affiliates. Sympatico membership gives you free Internet software, reliable connections, friendly toll-free support, and a Web site (which you're in now) made by and for Canadians.

With the Sympatico service, you can send electronic mail, surf the World Wide Web, and join discussion groups (forums and newsgroups) with like-minded people all over the world. The Sympatico service has something for everyone. You can find information for your science project, read today's headline news, play a game, buy flowers for your mom, and do about a thousand other things as well. More than just a connection to the Internet, the Sympatico service gives you a guided tour of the Internet as part of your membership.

Welcome to the Sympatico service!

What is the Internet?