Book details of 'Everybody's Guide to the Internet'

Title	Everybody's Guide to the Internet
Author(s)	Adam Gaffin
ISBN	0262571056
Language	English
Published	September 1994
Publisher	MIT Press

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Along with "Zen and the Art of the Internet" (see reviews), Gaffin's "Big Dummie's Guide to the Internet" is a major online resource and net introduction. Because of trademark restrictions, the printed version does not use the "Dummie" name. In print, it shares with "Zen" small size and a "fast track" style. The original "Dummie's" appellation is ironically appropriate. Gaffin does not address the concepts of the Internet, but concentrates on the specific tools and applications, almost at a keystroke level. This makes it particularly appropriate for field-independent types who have no interest in the background, and just want to know which button to press. Unfortunately, this also presents a problem if the user is not on a UNIX shell system, as is used for many examples. The introductory chapters run over the basics of modems and providers without too much detail. Again, this restricts certain discussions. Gaffin, for example, states that a familiarity with the production of text files is essential, but doesn't say why, and doesn't talk about the related problem of text uploads. A quick and basic introduction, particularly suited to those who want to know how and *not* why. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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foreword by Mitchell Kapor If you have access to a personal computer and want to explore the Internet, Everybody's Guide is the place to begin. Everybody's Guide is designed to make you comfortable in the virtual world of the Internet with its insider language and peculiar local culture. Accessible, friendly, and authoritative, it offers a clear, bare-bones introduction to the Internet, with just enough technical information to get you online. Additional help is offered at the end of each chapter in the form of a section on what to do "when things go wrong," and another section, called "FYI," tells you where to look for further information. Everybody's Guide covers everything you need to know about the rich and complex Internet environment: e-mail (including advanced e-mail); the "global watering hole" called Usenet and its essential newsgroups; mailing lists and bitnet; bulletin board systems; downloading files via ftp; information utilities such as telnet, gopher, archie, veronica, WAIS, and the World-Wide Web; information services such as library catalogs, weather reports, and traveling advisories; news services; IRC and MUDs; and the network in the classroom. The Internet is growing and changing so quickly that to help keep users up to date, Everybody's Update to the Internet is posted monthly and is available for free online over the Internet. Everybody's Guide was originally "published" electronically as The Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet. It is sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Mitchell Kapor and John Perry Barlow that works to protect civil liberties in emerging technologies.