The Internet for Dummies, 5th edition

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By John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young. March 1998, 376 pages, US$19.99. C$28.99, £18.99, ISBN 0-7645-0354-5. The Internet doesn't hold still, and neither does The Internet for Dummies. Fully revised for 1998, with coverage of the Net's hot topics, including building your own home page, and (finally) on-line chat! What's new? Fully updated for 1998, including coverage of Windows 98. All-new chapter on building your own home page New chapter on on-line chatting New chapter on on-line shopping, tips and pitfalls, and the answer to the Credit Card Question. (Yes, we do, if you were wondering.) Even more step by step instructions. Updated resources for your kids. Table of Contents Part I: Welcome to the Internet 1. What is the net? 2. Intranets, Extranets, and Volleyball Nets 3. The Net, Your Kids, and You Part II: Internet, Here I Come 4. Picking Your Internet Service 5. Connecting to the Internet Part III: Web Mania 6. The Wild, Wonderful, Wacky, World Wide Web 7. Wrangling with the Web 8. Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net 9. More Shopping, Less Dropping 10. My First Home Page Part IV: Essential Internet 11. Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither 12. Putting Your Mail in Its Place 13. Mail, Mail the Gang's All Here 14. Let's Get Together and Chat 15. Swiping Files from the Net 16. Alternate Internet Part V: The Part of Tens 17. Ten Frequently Asked Questions 18. Ten Ways to Find E-mail Addresses 19. Ten Kinds of Files and What To Do with Them 10. Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz Glossary Index

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