The Internet for Dummies Quick Reference - Softcover

Levine, John R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764506757 ISBN 13: 9780764506758

Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S., 2000

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This guide to the Internet includes: setting up an Internet account; using email; finding information on the Web; chatting to friends and family around the globe; and keeping your connection secure and free of unwanted content.

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About the Authors John R. Levine was a member of the same computer club Margy was in - before high school students, or even high schools, had computers. He wrote his first program in 1967 on an IBM 1130 (a computer almost as fast as your modern digital wristwatch, only more difficult to use). He became an official system administrator of a networked computer at Yale in 1975 and has been working in the computer and network biz since 1977. He got his company on to Usenet (see Part IV) early enough that it appears in a 1982 Byte magazine article in a map of Usenet, which then was so small that the map fit on half a page. He used to spend most of his time writing software, although now he mostly writes books (including UNIX For Dummies and lnternet Secrets, both from IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.) because it's more fun and he can do so at home in the hamlet of Trumansburg, New York, where he holds the exalted rank of sewer commissioner and offers free samples to visitors and plays with his young daughter when he's supposed to be writing. He also does a fair amount of public speaking. (See www.iecc.com/johnl.) He holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University, but please don't hold that against him. Arnold Reinhold has been programming computers since they had filaments. His first introduction to the hype/so what?/wow! cycle that governs the computer industry evolution was the transistor. He has gotten to do cool stuff in spacecraft guidance, air traffic control, computer-aided design, robotics, machine vision and cryptography. Arnold has been on and off the Internet for more than 15 years. He is also a coauthor of E-Mail For Dummies (IDG Books Worldwide). Arnold studied mathematics at CCNY and MIT and management at Harvard. You can check out his home page at www.hayom.com/reinhold.html. Unlike her peers in that 40-something bracket, Margaret Levine Young was exposed to computers at an early age. In high school, she got into a computer club known as the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., a group of kids who spent Saturdays in a barn fooling around with three antiquated computers. She stayed in the field through college against her better judgment and despite her brother John's presence as a graduate student in the computer science department. Margy graduated from Yale and went on to become one of the first microcomputer managers in the early 1980s at Columbia Pictures, where she rode the elevator with big stars whose names she wouldn't dream of dropping here. Since then, Margy (www.gurus.com/margy) has coauthored more than 20 computer books about the topics of the Internet, UNIX, WordPerfect, Microsoft Access, and (stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including The Internet For Dummies, and WordPerfect 7 For Windows 95 For Dummies (all from IDG Books Worldwide). She loves her husband, Jordan; her kids, Meg and Zac; gardening; chickens; reading; and anything to do with eating. Margy and her husband also run Great Tapes for Kids (www.greattapes.com) from their home in the middle of a cornfield near Middlebury, Vermont.

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Fun, Fast & Easy

Get the Facts Fast - and Get More Done Online A Quick Reference for the Rest of Us!(r) If you like your answers quick and your information up-to-date, look no further. With this concise, superbly organized desk reference, you'll be able to find the facts you need fast - without skimming through pages of fluff. From service providers and browsers to chats, messaging, and e-mail, this newly updated guide delivers just what you need to get more done and have more fun online. Get instant advice on:
* Choosing a service provider
* Setting up a connection
* Sending and receiving e-mail
* Getting more out of browsers
* Conducting effective searches
* Using messaging to keep in touch
* Exploring chat rooms
* Downloading software
Look for The Internet For Dummies(r) for more information on the topic. For Dummies(r) Quick References and For Dummies books are available on all your favorite or not-so-favorite hardware and software products. Look for them wherever computer books are sold! Descriptive Icons guide you straight to useful tips, shortcuts, warnings, and much more!

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0764506757
• ISBN 13: 9780764506758
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 6
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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