Book details of 'Net Guide: Your Map to the Services, Information and Entertainment on the Electronic Highway'

Title	Net Guide: Your Map to the Services, Information and Entertainment on the Electronic Highway
Author(s)	Peter Rutten, Albert F. Bayers, Kelly Maloni, Michael Wolfe
ISBN	0679751068
Language	English
Published	January 1994
Publisher	Random House Electronic Pub

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
The description of this book as "the TV Guide to Cyberspace" is fairly apt. As a kind of concise "yellow pages" to online services, it has a good format for introductory searching in a given topic. The "Frequently Asked Questions" introduction lays out a useful style for providing basic access information. The FAQ chapter goes into greatest detail on the Internet applications: the outlines, though roughly a two-page maximum, nevertheless usually provide enough direction without going into technicalities. The content is not as complete as the two yellow page guides (cf. BKNRYLPG.RVW and BKINTYLP.RVW), although it also includes material from commercial services, BBS networks and individual BBSes. One use for the book would be in determining which type of service is best suited to your needs. (Take care, though: commercial systems have an advantage here, in that some service descriptions are lifted from promotional materials.) Some of the material is becoming dated, but I was favourably impressed with areas relating to my specialities. The topical divisions are sometimes odd, and there are no cross-references. Again, commercial services have an advantage: their material is more likely to be posted in multiple topics. A useful, quick reference which deserves to be updated. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995
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