This comprehensive guide from internet expert Robert Pondiscio covers everything kids need to know about:
How to get online
Web basics, with a guided tour of the Web
Communicating online through e-mail, chat and news groups
America Online and other internet service providers
Staying safe online
Free stuff, fun and games, and multimedia
Sites for kids and families
How to get parents hooked on the internet
And much more
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wonderfully helpful book!,
By Lisa Clemens (Hamlin, New York United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Get on the Net:: Everything You Need To Know About The Internet, Including The World Wide Web And Addresses For Hundreds Of Fun And Useful Sites (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)
Robert Pondiscio's book is a great help for a busy Mom like me! I found so many great hints and new sites I never would have known about! It really helps make my child's internet experience more enjoyable! GET THIS BOOK!
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Get on the Net:: Everything You Need To Know About The Internet, Including The World Wide Web And Addresses For Hundreds Of Fun And Useful Sites (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)
GET ON THE NET, by Robert Pondiscio, is clear, concise, with MUCH information, very clearly put! Lots and LOTS of knowledge, in a handy sized book one can hold in one hand! The print is nice and dark, and a good size and easy to read. A book purportedly for young adults, it yet never, never talks down to its readers, and can be used by ANY "newbie" (newcomer) to the Interent, no matter what their age. (In fact, I've been "on the web" since 2001, and have found MUCH new information in here I've never known before!) The book also has a full index, which is very useful in any book -- but especially one used by beginners, enabling them to go to the entry describing EXACTLY for what they're looking!
The only qualm I have with this book is NOT the fault of the author. It is the fault of the PUBLISHER. Like many books published today, it is, (so sadly!), printed on sulfite paper, not non-acidic paper. Sulfite paper is thesubject of a documentary film called "SLOW FIRES", narrated by Robert McNeil, and with novelist James Michner and historian Barbara Tuchman. Available here on Amazon, it tells the sad story of what is happening to SO many books, printed in years past, (and sadly, today as well). Sulfite paper, you see, slowly disintegrates over time. So, over time, any books printed on sulfite paper are LOST, as they slowly crumble into nothing. (The image of the "library", shown in the movie, "The Time Machine", (1960), starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, and Sebastian Cabot comes to mind. Mr. Taylor, as the time traveller, H. George Wells, asks the leader of the Weeins if they have any books. The leader of the Weeins says, yes, and shows him about 200 books, all neatly lined up on shelves. But when Mr. Wells tries to take a book off the shelf, it crumbles -- as do all the others with a single swipe of his hand. This is SO unnecessary -- at least, today. In the documentary, "SLOW FIRES", it is stated that the making of non-acidic paper is NOT more expensive than making sulphite paper -- the costs are comparable! The only expense is in the buying of new equipment to make the non-acidic paper! This reluctance on the part of so many publishers, (and/or paper manufacturers), to buy this new non-acidic paper-making equipment us a real tragedy. So much great knowledge will be lost this way! Some paper manufacturers and publishers, happily, HAVE turned to using non-acidic paper in their books -- but sadly, the manufacturers of paper, and possibly the publishers, GET ON THE NET, the excellent book herein being reviewed, have chosen not to do so, (yet, anyway.....hopefully any new edition will be of non-acidic paper?????) In the meantime, if you want a copy of this excellent book now, I suggest that you buy some orange, yellow, red or green magic marker, (or equivalent), and colour the edges of the pages of this, and other books presently printed on sulfite paper. This technique was used by all mass paperback book manufacturers until quite recently, and can also work on trade-paperbacl editions such as GET ON THE NET. The coloured edges keep the damaging rays of the sun off the pages of sul-fite paged books, at least a bit. It is the same technique used to shade department-store window displays. Again, one hopes that such excellent books, as GET ON THE NET, will be re-printed on non-acidic paper -- and soon. And, also, that "Net-Neutrality" will continue as it is, so that everyone will be able to access all the wonderful websites, within this book, (and others), without having to pay extra fees!
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great online reference!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Get on the Net:: Everything You Need To Know About The Internet, Including The World Wide Web And Addresses For Hundreds Of Fun And Useful Sites (An Avon Camelot Book) (Paperback)
Terrific online reference for kids and their parents -- particularly those who aren't very familiar with the internet.
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