The Internet Made Simple

The expansion of the Internet continues unabated. internet-ready PCs have fallen dramatically in price in recent years and are selling well, bringing the 'Net' every month to tens of thousands of new users in the UK alone. In addition, many people are gaining Internet access as businesses, schools and other organizations come online.

Setting up a computer to get online used to be a fairly complex technical job. This is no longer the case. Though there will be the occasional hitch, getting online with any reasonably new PC and modern software is straightforward. The major problem faced by new users is working out what to do when they get on the 'Net' and this book intends to address that problem.

requires no technical or in-depth computer knowledge
applicable to almost all computer systems, but with an emphasis on Windows 95/98
fully updated throughout in a second edition

Mac's first steps into computing came 19 years ago when he taught himself Basic on a ZX81. He started his first book shortly afterwards, when he realised that (a) programming was fun, and (b) no-one was writing simple books on it. Since then he has programmed in, taught and/or written about 9 varieties of Basic, 3 Pascals, 2 Cs, Assembler, Cobol and Java, 5 spreadsheets, 3 databases, 4 word-processors, and 6 operating systems. He is looking forward to the time when developers stop producing new software and books don't go out of date in a couple of years. Mac can usually be found either in the kitchen or running a taxi service for his family. He lives in Southampton with 4 children, 2 cats and 40 fishes. Web page: homepages.tcp.co.uk/~macbride Mac is the author of the following Made Simple books: The Internet for Windows 95 (Second Edition) The Internet for Windows 3.1 (First Edition) The Internet for Windows 95 (First Edition) The Internet for Windows 98 The Internet (Colour Edition) First Edition the Internet (Colour Edition) Second Edition Office 95 Office 97 Office 2000 Works for Windows 3.1 Works for Windows 95 Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Internet Resources Microsoft Networking Explorer 3.0 Explorer 4.0 Explorer 5.0 Netscape Navigator Searching the Internet Java JavaScript Pascal UNIX Outlook 2000 Sage Accounts HTML 4.0 Mac is also the series advisor/editor.