Table Of Content
Introduction. PART I: Welcome to the Internet. Chapter 1: What Is the Net? What Is the Web? Chapter 2: The Internet at Home, at Work, at School, at Play. Chapter 3: The Net, Your Kids, and You. PART II: Internet, Here I Come! Chapter 4: Picking Your Internet Service. Chapter 5: Online and On Your Way. PART III: Web Mania. Chapter 6: Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Web. Chapter 7: Wrangling with the Web. Chapter 8: Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net. Chapter 9: More Shopping, Less Dropping. Chapter 10: My First Home Page. PART IV: Essential Internet. Chapter 11: Mailing Hither, Mailing Thither. Chapter 12: Putting Your Mail in Its Place. Chapter 13: Mail, Mail, the Gang's All Here. Chapter 14: Instant Messages, for When a Minute Just Isn't Soon Enough. Chapter 15: Let's Get Together and Chat. Chapter 16: Swiping Files from the Net. Chapter 17: AOL: Can Twenty Million Users Really Be Wrong? Chapter 18: Tuning In with WebTV. PART V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 19: Ten Frequently Asked Questions. Chapter 20: Ten Types of Files and What to Do with Them. Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Find E-Mail Addresses. Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz. Glossary. Index. Book Registration Information.
Synopsis
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