|
By John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi, Margaret Levine Young and Hy Bender.
March 1997, 401 pages, US$24.99. C$34.99, £23.99,
ISBN 0-7645-0107-0.
The Internet doesn't hold still, and neither does The Internet for Dummies.
Newly revised for 1997, with coverage of the Net's hot topics, and a CD-ROM
full of useful Internet software.
What's new?
- Lots more info about Netscape and Internet Explorer.
- Detailed info on finding stuff on the Web.
- On-line updates, for the topics that change the fastest.
- More jokes.
- More step by step instructions.
- Resources for your kids.
- An introduction to Intranets.
Table of Contents
Part I: Welcome to the Internet
1. What is the net?
2. Internet, Here I Come
3. Intranet? Are You Sure That's Spelled Right?
4. The Net, Your Kids, and You
Part II: Using Your Internet Account
5. The Wild, Wonderful, Wacky, World Wide Web
6. Wrangling with the Web
7. Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net
8. Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither
9. Putting Your Mail in Its Place
10. Mail, Mail the Gang's All Here
11. All the News that Fits and Considerably More
12. Swiping Files from the Net
Part III: Getting an Internet Account: Some Popular Entrance Ramps
13. Using the Internet via an Internet Service Provider
14. Using the Internet via America Online
15. Using the Internet via Compuserve
Part IV: The Part of Tens
16. Ten Frequently Asked Questions
17. Ten Ways to Find E-mail Addresses
18. Ten Kinds of Files and What To Do with Them
19. Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz
Part V: Resource Reference
20. Finding a Public Internet Provider
21. Sources of Internet Software
22. I Want to Learn More
Appendix: Installing the programs on the CD-ROM
Glossary
Index
CD-ROM Contents
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Programs:
- Adobe Acrobat Reader: A free program you can use to view and print
Portable Document Format, or PDF, files.
- AT&T WorldNet Service: Software that helps you sign up for an
Internet account with AT&T WorldNet Service; it includes a free
version of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- Eudora Light: An excellent, free electronic mail program you can
use to send and receive e-mail messages over the Internet.
- Free Agent: An excellent, free newsgroup reader (or newsreader)
program you can use to participate in thousands of online discussions
over the Internet.
- HotDog: A shareware program that enables you to create your own
World Wide Web pages without requiring you to be an HTML programming
whiz.
- mIRC: A shareware Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, program you can use
to interact live, via your keyboard, with a group of people on the
Internet.
- NetTerm: A shareware program that lets you log on to other
computers as a terminal via a slightly old-fashioned method called
Telnet.
- Paint Shop Pro: A shareware graphics program you can use to view
virtually any image you're likely to encounter on the Web. Using
this program, you can create and edit images and convert them into
different file formats, which is useful if you want to make your own
Web pages.
- ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus: A shareware virus-detection tool that
helps you safeguard your data from destructive programs.
- Trumpet Winsock: A shareware TCP/IP program that provides the
foundation a Windows 3.1 PC needs in order to connect to the
Internet. (Windows 95 has built-in TCP/IP software.)
- WinZip: An invaluable shareware decompression utility you can use
to make compressed files usable again.
- WS_FTP LE: A free (for noncommercial use) File Transfer Protocol,
or FTP, program you can use to copy files between your PC and a
computer on the Internet.
Macintosh programs:
- Adobe Acrobat Reader: A free program you can use to view and print
Portable Document Format, or PDF, files.
- Anarchie: A shareware File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, program you
can use to copy files between your Macintosh and a computer on the
Internet.
- AT&T WorldNet Service: Software that helps you sign up for an
Internet account with AT&T WorldNet Service; it includes a free
version of Netscape Navigator.
- BBEdit Lite: A freeware text editor that enables you to create
your own World Wide Web pages using HTML programming.
- Disinfectant: A freeware virus-detection tool that helps you
safeguard your data from destructive programs.
- DropStuff with Expander Enhancer: An invaluable shareware
decompression utility that allows you to create a StuffIt archive just
by dragging and dropping files on its icon. DropStuff also gives the
freeware program StuffIt Expander the ability to decompress PC ZIP
archives and much more.
- Eudora Light: An excellent free, electronic-mail program you can
use to send and receive e-mail messages over the Internet.
- FreePPP: A shareware TCP/IP program that provides the foundation
software a Macintosh needs in order to get connected to the Internet.
- GraphicConverter: A shareware graphics program you can use to view
virtually any image you're likely to encounter on the Web. Using
this program, you can transform images from one file format to
another, which is useful if you want to make your own Web pages.
- InterNews: A shareware newsgroup reader (or newsreader) program
you can use to participate in thousands of online discussions over the
Internet.
- Ircle: A shareware Internet Relay Chat, or IRC, program you can
use to interact live, via your keyboard, with a group of people on the
Internet.
- NCSA Telnet: A shareware program that lets you log on to other
computers as a terminal via a slightly old-fashioned method called
Telnet.
- StuffIt Expander: A freeware program which opens files that have
been compressed in StuffIt archives. It can also decode files sent as
BinHex, the Internet file encoding scheme for Macs.
|