Exploring the Internet

A beginner's guide to accessing the Internet with Windows on a PC, revised from the first edition to reflect the growing importance of the World Wide Web. Explains search engines, creating a home page, using e-mail, social and legal issues, file transfer, Usenet, and other Internet services. Includes exercises, a glossary, and many color illustrations, but no bibliography. Spiral wire binding. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

This is a revision of one of the newest books in the very popular Exploring Windows Series. Assuming no prior knowledge of the Internet, this book will appeal to persons from a variety of disciplines including liberal arts, physical and life sciences, social science, and business. Concepts are presented in non-technical terms, but with sufficient detail so the reader will gain real understanding of the Internet and how it works. Provides hands-on experiences in addition to the rationale behind what is being done. Covers the World Wide Web, Netscape, E-mail, URLs, HTML, special appendix “Hot sites on the Internet.” For those looking to get “on-line” and get a handle on electronic communication and information exchange.