The Internet for Dummies, 8th edition

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By John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young. February 2002, 384 pages, US$21.99. C$32.99, £18.99, ISBN 0-7645-0894-6. After all these years, the Internet keeps changing, and so does The Internet for Dummies. Revised for 2002, with coverage of Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6, AOL 7, and other topics, including online communities, shopping, spam, viruses, and privacy! Table of Contents Part I: Welcome to the Internet 1. What is the Internet? What Is the Web? 2. The Internet at Home, and Work, at School, at Play 3. Kinds and the Net Part II: Internet, Here I Come 4. Picking Your Internet Service 5. Online and on Your Way Part III: Web Mania 6. Welcome to 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: E-mail, Chat, and Other Ways to Hang Out Online 11. Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither 12. Putting Your Mail in Its Place 13. Online Communities: Let's Get Together 14. Typing, Talking, and Video over the Net 15. Let's Chat Part V: Other Internet Essentials 16. Swiping Files from the Net 17. AOL: Can Twenty Million Users Really Be Wrong? Part VI: The Part of Tens 18. Ten Frequently Asked Questions 19. Ten Kinds of Files and What To Do with Them 20. Ten Neat Things on the Web 21. Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz Glossary Index

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