How to Use the Internet [Paperback]

Marietta Tretter (Author), Steph Bradshaw (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

Expanding on its two page per topic format which outlines the steps for accomplishing specific Internet tasks, this guide illustrates every step so that the reader can proceed with confidence through the completion of each task.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

In How to Use the Internet, 2001 Edition, Rogers Cadenhead has come up with an excellent picture of what most people do with the Internet. Furthermore, he explains each task--reading e-mail, searching and surfing the Web, chatting, and the like--with clarity and simplicity that are not found in many other books. Like the other books in this series, this one explains its subject with full-color, nicely rendered illustrations that closely associate explanatory text with screen shots from the software under discussion. The heavily graphical style will appeal to people who prefer learning visually to attempting to correlate an author's prose with what they're seeing on a video screen.

Users of the Mac and Linux systems will wish for illustrations that matched their computers--all of the screen shots in this book come from Microsoft Windows--but this book is beautiful in its understanding of what's important to most Internet users. Cadenhead explains how to connect to an Internet service provider (ISP), and goes beyond the expected e-mail and Web coverage to introduce chat (with both ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger) and stock portfolio tracking (on ClearStation). Cadenhead probably goes too far by attempting to cover Web publishing--the subject doesn't fit this format well--but, nonetheless, explains how to become a productive user of all aspects of the Internet. --David Wall

Topics covered: Essential skills required of a journeyman Internet user, including those that relate to e-mail, the Web, Usenet newsgroups, ICQ, and AOL. There's coverage of MP3 music (although not Napster), as well as introductory material on how to publish your own pages. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Publisher

This book will teach the reader everything from hooking up and connecting to the Internet to participating through email, chat and newsgroups, to using the basics like telnet and gopher. - New How to Use design gives readers 25% more solutions in this latest edition, including the most commonly used intermediate and advanced features of the Internet

- Completely updated to include more information on the World Wide Web and the latest on virus protection, new browser plug-ins, commerce, and Internet telephone as well as coverage of the latest browsers from Microsoft and Netscape

- This book will help readers get up and surfing with a Internet by using a complete visual solution on every page --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Ziff Davis Pr; 2nd edition (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562763482
• ISBN-13: 978-1562763480
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,575,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Introduction to the Internet, September 3, 1997

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This review is from: How to Use the Internet (Paperback)

This book can take you from ground zero to up and running your own web page through its clear consise graphics and explanations. There are also plenty of easy-to-follow exercises that put the subject matter to use. I learned more in less time than with any other book I have seen on the subject

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not for dummies., August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Use the Internet (4th Edition) (Paperback)

I am new to the internet so I needed a book written for a dummy. This book was not as easy for me to understand as some of the other books I checked out from the library. I got lost and fell asleep.