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Title	The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet (Complete Idiot's Guide To...)
Author(s)	Peter Kent
ISBN	1567614140
Language	English
Published	February 1994
Publisher	Alpha Books

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Internet is a great resource for the inexperienced cybertraveler. You'll learn how to get up and running on the Internet, to send and receive e-mail messages, to navigate around and find what you're looking for the World Wide Web, to participate in Internet discussion groups, and to communicate with friends and family. The guide also introduces you to Web multimedia, gopher, chat, and telnet and teaches you how to create your own Web page. All topics are presented in the easy-to-understand language that is customary within the Complete Idiot's Guide series. The attached CD-ROM includes everything you need to get connected plus numerous Web tools and electronic copies of this and other books in the series. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
I wish Peter Kent had picked another name for this book because it deserves better. (Yes, I *do* know that this is part of a series, and that publishers get to pick titles.) Part one is both a general introduction to the Internet, and a very solid discussion of access methods and Internet providers. There is also coverage of modem and software configuration, and a brief overview of UNIX commands. The five chapters of part two deal with email. Some errors start to creep in at this point: in the discussion of finding email addresses, the commands for the MIT Usenet addresses mail server are said to go in the subject line (rather than the message body) and the instructions for knowbot miss the "query" command. Parts three and four cover the remaining applications. The organization seems to loosen in this section, and there are additional errors in commands. The disk included with the book seems odd in some of the early references ("the file NWSGROUP.TXT in the file NSWGROUP.EXE") until you realize that all but one of the files are self-extracting compressed text files. They are, in fact, a very select and useful set of references and postings from the net. The book contents do not deal with network applications in depth, but do aim at a very consistent audience level. The errors in command examples, while unfortunate, are not necessarily fatal, since most services have some sort of help feature. I am not, personally, a great fan of "moron" books, but Kent's work does deserve consideration as an introductory net guide, particularly for those without other resources for finding and setting up access. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994
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