Dummies 101?: The Internet for Windows? 98 (For Dummies) - Softcover

Bender, Hy; Young, Margaret Levine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764502077 ISBN 13: 9780764502071

Publisher: For Dummies, 1998

Synopsis

Includes Step-by-Step Instructions on Using Internet Explorer and Outlook Express — the Web and E-Mail Software from Microsoft Designed for Windows 98! If you've been itching to explore the Internet, now is the time to start! Dummies 101: The Internet For Windows 98 brings you easy, step-by-step instructions to quickly connect you to the Net right from your desktop. Research any topic, get tons of free programs, shop online, and more! Inside, Get the Information You Need Now:

• Click any of 200 hand-picked Web sites on this book's CD-ROM to cruise to the very best sites on the Internet
• Find virtually any person or fact you need on the Web
• Choose from thousands of fabulous free programs, picture files, and audio and video clips
• Send and receive e-mail — and use our software robot to test your e-mail address
• Join online discussion groups, participate in live chat groups, and subscribe to electronic channels
• Create and publish your own Web pages

Dummies 101: Companion CD Use the Valuable CD-ROM with This Book to Learn the Fun and Easy Way! The CD includes MindSpring software for connecting to the Internet; Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Internet Explorer: two popular Web browsers; shareware versions of mIRC, GetRight, and WinZip. Use mIRC for chatting live with others on the Net; GetRight and WinZip for grabbing software from the Net. Also includes an evaluation version of ThunderBYTE Anti-Virus for protecting your data from destructive software viruses. Shareware programs are fully functional, free trial versions of copyrighted programs. If you like particular programs, register with their authors for a nominal fee and receive licenses, enhanced versions, and technical support. Freeware programs are free, copyrighted games, applications, and utilities. You can copy them to as many PCs as you like — free — but they have no technical support. System Requirements: 486 or faster PC with Windows 98; 16MB RAM; 14,400 bps or faster modem (needed for Internet connection — regular access charges may apply); and a CD-ROM drive

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Review:

Ready to go "back to school" to learn how to get on the Internet? Since you're reading this review, you must have gotten that far, but perhaps you have a friend who wants to send you e-mail but is scared of what it means to "get on the Net." Set up like a grammar-school workbook (complete with space to write notes on the sides), Dummies 101: The Internet for Windows 98 starts at the very beginning and proceeds very gently. Promising lessons sweetly free of technical geekspeak, the authors assume only the following: that the reader has Windows 98, a CD-ROM drive, a modem with a speed of 14,400 bps or faster, and a phone line connected to that modem. That's it! They discuss how to get an Internet account and spend a whole page explaining how to move up and down a Web page. At the end of each chapter are primer quizzes with questions like, "Some programs that you can use to search the Web are: a) Yahoo!, HotBot, and Lycos; b) Yippee, Sneezy, and Dopey; c) AltaVista, Excite, and Savvy Search; d) Huey, Dewey, and Louie; or e) Groucho, Chico, and Harpo."

For anyone a little (or a lot) behind on "this Internet thing," Bender and Young provide Internet navigation tips and e-mail instructions to take beginners to a comfortable level of expertise. --Jennifer Buckendorff

About the Author:

About the Authors: Hy Bender has authored or coauthored ten computer books, including IDG Books Worldwide's bestselling Dummies 101: The Internet For Windows 95. Margaret Levine Young has coauthored over two dozen computer books, including IDG Books Worldwide's bestselling The Internet For Dummies, 5th Edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0764502077
• ISBN 13: 9780764502071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288