The Internet for Dummies

by Carol Baroudi, John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young

Book Overview

ISPs. URLs. DSL. If you're new to the Internet, all that technobabble can be confusing. Relax With the friendly advice and plain-English explanations in this bestselling guide, you'll soon be swapping e-mails, sending instant messages, surfing the Web, managing your money online ... and maybe even creating your own personal Web page

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764506749
• ISBN13: 9780764506741
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Internet dummies series

This is an excellent book for some one like me who is computer illiterate. I highly recommend this for understanding and finding out how your computer and its programs work.

Great for Beginners

My husband is a computer/internet newcomer. He read most chapters and is using it as a reference. The book reinforced the security issues surrounding some websites and popups. Great book for folks that are unfamiliar with the web.

I Didn't Know A Thing About The Net Before This...

...and now I surf the wide world web like a hangin' ten, cowabunga yelling tide tamer. This tells you how to get from a idea to the very article you're searching for as well as defining what those dot com or dot org or dot gov slash dot htmls mean. The Dummy books are like the Cliff Notes on everything and this one fits the bill for us folks with limited acuity.

Definite must-have for the Internet 'newbie'!

If you're just starting out to use the Internet, this is a definite must-have book for you! It's written in way for all of us to understand, and leaves the techie jargon behind! This book is a definite MUST HAVE for any website designer, newbie to web design and anyone and everyone who has an online business. Simple, easy to understand visuals compliment the text, which is written in a very simplistic manner. This book is wonderful - magnificent - excellent, and will help you greatly understand the elements of successful web design. I've used it to consistently update my own website, at:http://www.aei.dli.comIf you don't have this book, you're missing out on your single-most-important investment in your professional life!

7th Edition of the Great Internet Dummies Book !

360 pages of all the facts you'll need about the Web, e-mail, service providers, and search engines. An encyclopedia of the easy to locate information you'll need to surf like an "expert." Provides a complete table of contents and an index of more than 2,200 entries. Topics range from The Net at Home and Work, Your Kids, Web TV and Shopping, to Your First Home Page, Mail, Messages, Chats, and Swiping Files from the Net. Written in the fun, but informative style of the "Dummies" series. At $ 15.95 you'll find a wealth of information to help you. I keep this book on my desk and refer to it often. My two sons are systems analysts and programmers, but I find the things I need faster in this book, than trying to understand what the boys are saying with their technical jargon ! After they answer my question, I still look it up in the book so I can understand the "practical" steps I need to take to get what I want.