The Internet For Dummies®, 9th Edition
by John R. Levine (Trumansburg, NY, Author ); Margaret Levine Young (Cornwall, VT, Author ); Carol Baroudi (Arlignton, MA, Author )Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): For Dummies
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Summary
Now fully updated, The Internet For Dummies includes expanded coverage of high-speed Internet connections and how to use them, online shopping, the latest e-mail clients, wireless Internet usage, sharing an Internet connection among several computers, and a great deal more. There's even a tear-out technology map filled with instructions on essential technologies as well as listings of the Internet's best offerings. A leading Internet guide for beginners; previous editions have sold more than three million copies Offers basic, easy-to-understand guidance to help Internet newcomers get up to speed quickly on the biggest communication and technology innovation of the past 100 years Provides beginning Internet users with essential information about choosing an Internet service pro-vider, finding information and making purchases on the Web, setting up a basic home page, working with e-mail, trading files online, and more about online communication
Author Biography
John Levine, Carol Baroudi, and Margaret Levine Young are veteran Internet experts who have written many other books to help new computer users.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| About This Book | p. 1 |
| How to Use This Book | p. 2 |
| Who Are You? | p. 3 |
| How This Book Is Organized | p. 3 |
| Icons Used in This Book | p. 4 |
| What Now? | p. 4 |
| Feedback, Please | p. 5 |
| Welcome to the Internet | p. 7 |
| What Is the Internet? What Is the Web? | p. 9 |
| Okay, So What Is the Internet? | p. 10 |
| So What's All the Hoopla? | p. 11 |
| A Few Real-Life Stories | p. 12 |
| Why Is This Medium Different from Any Other Medium? | p. 14 |
| Some Thoughts about Safety and Privacy | p. 18 |
| The Internet at Home, at Work, at School, and at Play | p. 21 |
| At Home with the Internet | p. 21 |
| The Internet at Work | p. 22 |
| The Internet at School | p. 26 |
| The Internet at Play | p. 27 |
| Kids and the Net | p. 29 |
| Can We Talk? | p. 29 |
| Internet Resources for Kids | p. 39 |
| The Internet in Schools | p. 41 |
| Internet, Here I Come! | p. 43 |
| Picking Your Internet Service | p. 45 |
| Do You Have a Computer? | p. 46 |
| Modems, Ho! | p. 49 |
| Who Ya Gonna Call? | p. 50 |
| How Much Does This All Cost? | p. 55 |
| Faster Connections: The Beauty of Bandwidth | p. 57 |
| Picking an ISP | p. 61 |
| Back to Software | p. 64 |
| Online and On Your Way | p. 65 |
| Your Computer Needs Software to Get Connected | p. 65 |
| The Big Picture | p. 68 |
| Connecting to Dialup Accounts | p. 71 |
| Connecting to DSL and Cable Accounts | p. 79 |
| Connecting to America Online | p. 82 |
| Sharing Your Internet Connection | p. 86 |
| What's Next? | p. 86 |
| Web Mania | p. 87 |
| Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Web | p. 89 |
| Name That Page | p. 92 |
| Browsing Off | p. 92 |
| Surfing with Your Browser | p. 95 |
| Getting and Installing a Browser | p. 100 |
| Windows on the World | p. 102 |
| My Favorite Things | p. 105 |
| Speeding Things Up | p. 108 |
| Getting the Big Picture | p. 113 |
| Filling in Forms | p. 113 |
| Lower the Cone of Silence | p. 115 |
| Save Me! | p. 115 |
| The Dead-Tree Thing: Printing | p. 116 |
| Keep Your Cookie Crumbs Off My Computer | p. 117 |
| Getting Plugged In: Singing, Dancing, and Chatting with Your Browser | p. 120 |
| Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net | p. 123 |
| Your Basic Search Strategy | p. 124 |
| Search-a-Roo | p. 125 |
| We're from Your Browser, and We're Here to Help You | p. 135 |
| The Usual Suspects | p. 138 |
| Finding Companies | p. 139 |
| Finding People | p. 141 |
| Getting the Goods | p. 144 |
| More Shopping, Less Dropping | p. 145 |
| Shopping Online: Pros and Cons | p. 145 |
| The Credit Card Question | p. 147 |
| Going to the Store | p. 148 |
| Up, Up, and Away | p. 151 |
| Pure Money | p. 153 |
| Even More Places to Shop | p. 156 |
| The Shopping Update | p. 161 |
| My First Home Page | p. 163 |
| Creating a Web Page | p. 163 |
| Pictures to Go | p. 168 |
| Linking to Other Pages | p. 170 |
| Good Page Design | p. 171 |
| Putting Your Page on the Web | p. 173 |
| Be Master of Your Domain | p. 176 |
| Open a Farm Stand on the Information Superhighway | p. 177 |
| Shout It Out! | p. 178 |
| E-mail, Chat, and Other Ways to Hang Out Online | p. 179 |
| It's in the Mail | p. 181 |
| What's My Address? | p. 181 |
| My Mail Is Where? | p. 185 |
| Too Many E-Mail Programs | p. 186 |
| Popular E-Mail Programs | p. 187 |
| Setting up Your E-mail Program | p. 188 |
| Sending Mail Is Easy | p. 194 |
| Mail Coming Your Way | p. 200 |
| A Few Words from the Etiquette Ladies | p. 202 |
| How Private Is E-Mail? | p. 204 |
| To Whom Do I Write? | p. 205 |
| Putting Your Mail in Its Place | p. 209 |
| Deleting Mail | p. 209 |
| Back to You, Sam: Replying to Mail | p. 210 |
| Keeping Track of Your Friends | p. 211 |
| Hot Potatoes: Forwarding Mail | p. 214 |
| Cold Potatoes: Saving Mail | p. 216 |
| Exotic Mail and Mail Attachments | p. 218 |
| Hey, Mr. Robot | p. 222 |
| Your Own Personal Mail Manager | p. 222 |
| Spam, Bacon, Spam, Eggs, and Spam | p. 224 |
| I Think I've Got a Virus | p. 225 |
| Broadband Mania | p. 227 |
| Sharing Your Connection | p. 227 |
| Music Is out There | p. 230 |
| Lights, Camera, Downloads | p. 231 |
| One Ringy-Dingy | p. 232 |
| Online Communities: Let's Get Together | p. 233 |
| Look Who's Talking | p. 233 |
| Mailing Lists: Are You Sure That This Isn't Junk Mail? | p. 234 |
| Discussions on the Web: Posting to Message Boards | p. 242 |
| Finding Interesting Online Communities | p. 245 |
| Instant Messaging: The Next Best Thing to Being There | p. 247 |
| Adding Voices and Faces | p. 248 |
| AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) | p. 250 |
| Windows Messenger, Alias MSN Messenger | p. 254 |
| Yahoo Messenger | p. 257 |
| Groupspeak: Let's Chat | p. 259 |
| Look Who's Chatting | p. 259 |
| Your First Chat Room | p. 261 |
| Let's Chat | p. 267 |
| Other Internet Essentials | p. 273 |
| Swiping Files from the Net | p. 275 |
| Downloading Files from the Web | p. 276 |
| About Face! Up You Go! | p. 278 |
| Uploading and Downloading with Web Folders | p. 279 |
| Sharing among Ourselves | p. 281 |
| It's Not Just a File--It's Software | p. 282 |
| Where Is It? | p. 287 |
| AOL: Can Twenty Million Users Really Be Wrong? | p. 289 |
| Hello, America Online | p. 290 |
| Using E-Mail from AOL | p. 291 |
| Going Offline | p. 297 |
| Using AOL to Connect to the Net | p. 297 |
| Web Browsing from AOL | p. 298 |
| Chatting with AOL and AIM Users | p. 299 |
| Grabbing Files from FTP Servers | p. 301 |
| Using AOL as an Internet Account | p. 301 |
| Doing Other Things | p. 303 |
| The Part of Tens | p. 305 |
| Ten Frequently Asked Questions | p. 307 |
| "Why Can't You Just Give Me Step-by-Step Instructions?" | p. 307 |
| "Are the Internet and the World Wide Web the Same Thing?" | p. 308 |
| "What's the Difference Between a Browser and a Search Engine?" | p. 308 |
| "Should I Get Cable or DSL?" | p. 309 |
| "Can I Change My E-Mail Address?" | p. 309 |
| "How Can I Get a File from My Word Processor into E-Mail?" | p. 310 |
| "Is It Safe to Use My Credit Card on the Net?" | p. 311 |
| "How Important Is This Internet Stuff?" | p. 311 |
| "What's the Best ISP?" | p. 311 |
| "How Can I Make Money on the Net?" | p. 312 |
| "What Type of Computer Should I Buy to Use the Internet?" | p. 313 |
| "How Can I Erase My Browser's List of the Web Pages I've Been Looking At?" | p. 314 |
| "What's Your Favorite Web Page?" | p. 314 |
| Ten Types of Files and What to Do with Them | p. 315 |
| How Many Kinds of Files Are There? | p. 315 |
| Just Plain Text | p. 317 |
| Any Last Requests Before We Execute You? | p. 318 |
| Packing It In | p. 318 |
| For the Artistically Inclined | p. 320 |
| Sound Off! | p. 323 |
| Music to My Ears | p. 324 |
| A Trip to the Movies | p. 325 |
| None of the Above | p. 327 |
| Ten Fun Things You Can Do on the Net | p. 329 |
| Send Greeting Cards | p. 329 |
| Share Pictures with Your Friends and Family | p. 330 |
| Watch Short Movies and TV Ads | p. 330 |
| Listen to Current and Classic NPR Programs | p. 331 |
| Play a Game of Checkers | p. 331 |
| Watch the World Go By | p. 331 |
| Share Your Diary | p. 332 |
| Visit Art Museums around the World | p. 332 |
| Build Your Own World | p. 332 |
| Tour the Solar System | p. 332 |
| Search for Extraterrestrial Life | p. 333 |
| Adopt a Kid | p. 333 |
| Study Chinese | p. 333 |
| Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz | p. 335 |
| Read Before You Write | p. 335 |
| Netiquette Matters | p. 336 |
| Flame Off! | p. 339 |
| Viruses, Spam, Chain Letters, and Other Antisocial Mail | p. 340 |
| Don't Be a Pig | p. 341 |
| Cybercafe Etiquette | p. 342 |
| Some Web Wisdom | p. 343 |
| Glossary | p. 345 |
| Index | p. 361 |
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