The Official America Online Internet Guide - Softcover

Peal, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0078823315 ISBN 13: 9780078823312

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 1997

Synopsis

Presents an easy and entertaining starting point to the resources of the Internet, featuring insider tips to make use easier, and includes a directory of the best Web resources available through AOL. Original. (Beginner).

About this title

Review:

While America Online (AOL) has built its success on making online life simple, its sphere of influence only goes so far. The Internet remains the Internet--a vast expanse of cyberspace far more varied than most newcomers imagine. This guide prepares Windows users who are ready to venture beyond the AOL community. Peal and Savetz are careful to differentiate between AOL and the Internet proper but show how the two are connected. They also demonstrate the various tools included with AOL that enable members to access a wide variety of Net resources.

The authors explain Net functionality and resources by comparing them to AOL, which is easy for AOL veterans to comprehend. However, Peal and Savetz go even further to provide a well-rounded Net education by discussing topics from packet-switching technology to accessing files by File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to HTML encoding for Web pages. The Official America Online Internet Guide also takes an expanded look at the world of e-mail and includes detailed information on mailing lists and how to use them. Information on newsgroups goes beyond using AOL's reader to explain how the groups are set up, classified, and managed. The book offers introductory reviews to many of the resources AOL makes especially accessible--such as the "AOL 300," a selection of 15 top Web sites and newsgroups related to each of AOL's 20 topic areas.

About the Author:

David Peal is a former Editorial Manager of the Internet Connection at America Online.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0078823315
• ISBN 13: 9780078823312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 554