Net Guide: Your Complete Guide to the the Internet and Online Services [Paperback]

Kelly Maloni; et al. (Author), Michael Wolff (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 17, 1995

A roadmap to the electronic highway features thousands of listings to the hottest spots on the Internet and commercial services, including CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy, and hundreds of bulletin boards. (All Users)

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Now available for the first time in mass market, the "yellow pages" of the Internet

"Thanks to Wolff...the cyberswamp may have just become a little less murky."
--Entertainment Weekly

"One of the more complete, well-organized guides to online topics."
--PC Magazine

"NetGuide will keep you from wandering around aimlessly on the internet,
and is full of good ideas for where to pull over."
--Forbes FYI

"NetGuide is the liveliest, most readable online guide yet."
--USA Today

"The best attempt yet at categorizing and organizing all the great stuff you can find out there. It's the book people keep stealing off my desk."
--Joshua Quittner, New York Newsday
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Inside Flap

In March 1996, a Nielsen survey found that 56 million people over the age of 16 in the U.S. and Canada have access to the Internet.  If the current rate of growth continues, by the year 2000, over 50% of the US population will have access to the Internet.  With as many as 50,000 new Web sites beginning each day, most Internet users would find the prospect of an Internet "yellow pages" both appealing and useful.  Now, from the definitive leader in Internet publishing, Michael Wolff, comes NetGuide.

Looking for a spouse?  Try Marriage Brokers Online.  Eager for the latest on your favorite sport?  Try ESPNET SportsZone.  Want a good book?  Consult dozens of library catalogues or dip into The  Iliad, Great Expectations, Black Beauty, or other literature online.

NetGuide is the first in Dell's new series of Internet guidebooks.  It is a comprehensive volume divided into helpful sections that provide simple, practical advice about everything readers need to know to surf the net: from choosing a modem to finding the right online service to locating the obscurest of sites.  NetGuide provides a fun and informative list of Web sites in the following subject areas:

ò Entertainment (including movies, television, music)
ò Sci-fi
ò Fun & Games (including comics, cartoons, video games)
ò Home & Health
ò The Digital World
ò Virtual Newsstand (including magazines, newspapers)
ò Politics & Government (including international, domestic)
ò Dollars & Sense (including personal finance, taxes)

In addition to other subject areas, NetGuidealso includes hundreds of Internet addresses for current information on topics ranging from television shows, to music, to literature (check out the Online University site at cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/index.html, for electronic versions of such classics as Moby Dick), and everything else in between.  

Packed with invaluable advice, NetGuideis the most complete listing of what's on the net and how to get there.  The ultimate guide for every Internet user, from part-time browsers to full-time "netheads," NetGuideis now finally available in a convenient paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 713 pages
• Publisher: Random House Information Group; Revised 2nd edition (October 17, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679764569
• ISBN-13: 978-0679764564
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,173,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, Fact-filled and a Time Saver, July 17, 2000

By 

A. Petrotchenkov (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Netguide: Your Complete Guide to the Internet and Online Services (Paperback)

This book is a must have for students of all ages. It provides the URLs of some great sites for information on virtually any research topic. This book should be considered a major resource for any high school student with questions about their homework; it contains comprehensive, fact-filled pages of information. It can be used as a summary, a resource, a starting point to seek further information. Using a search engine to locate sites with content equivalent to those listed in this book would take days. I would recommend this book to the highest degree. It should be noted, however, that if you are looking for specific information (statistics, demographics, etc.) you might be better off with a good search engine.

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3.0 out of 5 stars There is a more current publication, November 6, 2005

By 

Don Brash (New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Netguide: Your Complete Guide to the Internet and Online Services (Paperback)

The famous NetGuide magazine in New Zealand (www.netgtuide.co.nz) and Australia (www.netguide.com.au). They have the latest news and reviews on the Internet. The original NetGuide magazine makes today's world easy!