10 minute guide to the Internet

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Alpha Books, 1994 - Computers - 162 pages
The quick and easy guide to understanding and navigating the Internet, the world's largest network. Readers follow concise, 10-minute lessons to learn about everything from hardware to email, from downloading files to participating in newsgroups.-- Mini-tutorials are easy to follow and packed with helpful tips, definitions, and troubleshooting advice-- Specific directions on how to get the most out of the Internet-- How to choose hardware and software, send and receive email, download files, connect to other computers, and more

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Contents

How Will You Connect? 1
Getting Ready to Dial 11
Fancy Software Features 19
Copyright

5 other sections not shown

Common terms and phrases

America Online arrow ASCII binary bookmark browser Change directory change your password character Colorado SuperNet command line communications program computer files Ctrl+c databases delete dial dial-in terminal dialog box directoryname displays document e-mail address e-mail message Edit Settings Phone entry Exit Figure filename Gopher menu Gopherspace grep home directory host computer HYTELNET instance Internet keywords lesson you learned LISTSERV groups login name mail program menu option menu system modem Move the cursor newsgroup newsreader number and press password Peter Kent peterk Phone Number Phone Transfers Help pico Pine press Enter press q press Spacebar Project Gutenberg reply service provider service provider's computer session Settings Phone Transfers signature file subdirectory subscribe SuperHenu SuperNet system administrator teal tell text editor text file textwin TextWindows there's transfer files type the number UNIX Mail UNIX shell Veronica View World Wide Web

About the author (1994)

Peter Kent is the author of numerous other books about the Internet, including "Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing For Dummies," the best-selling "Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet," and the most widely reviewed and praised title in computer-book history, "Poor Richard's Web Site: Geek Free, Commonsense Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site," His work has been praised by "USA Today, BYTE," CNN.com, "Windows Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer," and many others.
Peter has been online since 1984, doing business in cyberspace since 1991, and writing about the Internet since 1993. Peter's experience spans virtually all areas of doing business online, from editing and publishing an e-mail newsletter to creating e-commerce Web sites, from online marketing and PR campaigns to running a Web-design and -hosting department for a large ISP.
Peter was the founder of an e-Business Service Provider funded by one of the world's largest VC firms, Softbank/Mobius. He was VP of Web Solutions for a national ISP and VP of Marketing for a Web applications firm. He also founded a computer-book publishing company launched through a concerted online marketing campaign.
Peter now consults with businesses about their Internet strategies, helping them to avoid the pitfalls and to leap the hurdles they'll encounter online. He also gives seminars and presentations on subjects related to online marketing in general and search engine marketing in particular. He can be contacted at Consult@PeterKentConsulting.com, and more information about his background and experience is available at www.PeterKentConsulting.com.

Bibliographic information

Title10 minute guide to the Internet
Best-selling series
AuthorPeter Kent
Editionillustrated
PublisherAlpha Books, 1994
ISBN1567614280, 9781567614282
Length162 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Internet / General
Computers / Networking / General
Internet
Internet (Computer network)
Wide area networks (Computer networks)
  
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