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Summary: This book was very helpful and informative to me
Review: I really enjoyed the way the authors of this book organized the book. They did it in a very constructive, humorous, and effective manner. I found learning more about the Internet very easy. I wish I could meet the authors. They seem very interesting.
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Summary: Loved the cover and relatively jargon free excellent speak!
Review: I'm just this year getting to grips and got connected to the internet. I'm great on the phone and face to face. Your book will help me to further master the internet and help to spread my artistic propaganda for the Wellington Fringe Festival. As a net virgin I will have a spunky home page soon.Yours Sincerely Alison Jones
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Summary: Great introductory guide to the internet
Review: Internet for Dummies is a great start to learning the internet. As a computer trainer, I am always delighted to discover comprehensive illustrative material that makes understanding the computer. This is such a book. I recommend anyone learning the computer to start out with this very down-to-earth publication. You may be asking why would a Mind Recovery Trainer want to review a computer book. In my research, I also find it vital to understand basic computing principles. This book will do to you what it did for me.
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Summary: Great introductory guide to the internet
Review: Internet for Dummies is a great start to learning the internet. As a computer trainer, I am always delighted to discover comprehensive illustrative material that makes understanding the computer. This is such a book. I recommend anyone learning the computer to start out with this very down-to-earth publication. You may be asking why would a Mind Recovery Trainer want to review a computer book. In my research, I also find it vital to understand basic computing principles. This book will do to you what it did for me.
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Summary: The book was extremely useful and not intimidating
Review: Internet for Dummies was an extremely useful book which is now a little dog-eared: take that as a good sign. It showed how to get online and do things like create web pages without intimidating beginners with jargon, and this book cured my schizophrenia.
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Summary: excellent audio introduction.
Review: It is an almost 90 minutes clear audiotape recorded in 1995 describing all these terms dealing with the web, internet. It start with definition and description (www, homepage) a new way for communication, it open a network of networking. Brief details about history of development. Requirement for usage: computer, and greatly details the advantages and disadvantages of each provider. Also talk about the huge benefit such as looking for college, or even education online. On the other end talk about inappropriate content of internet and different methods for parental control, and touch on the "addicted to". Also give few details about etiquette: do not flame, SPAM.Despite being 1995 information. But most of them will hold true and correct for many years, and I found them very informative despite being familiar with majority of them, but it was fun to get an idea about what internet was in 1996, and get helpful advices about different provider and security. I rated four stars only due to 1996, had I heard it then it deserves five stars easily.
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Summary: would recommend to anyone on the Net
Review: Just bought the book, and have already found many very useful commands and shortcuts, which has made it worth the purchase. Have not yet found an answer to my reason for buying the book; how to download a plug-in. It gives a nice description of a plug-in, but not the how-to I was looking for.
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Summary: Out Dated!
Review: Just felt it was out dated and way too basic for anyone who has ever been online. I was hoping for a little more meat. It was probably a great resource four years ago, but with the internet changing so rapidly, it needs to be updated tremendously. Most of my disapointment is my own fault... I should have seen the March 1996 publishing date and clicked away.
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Summary: Here is what our readers say:
Review: One of the fun aspects of writing this book is reading messages from our readers. (We give our e-mail address in the book and ask for feedback.) Here are some recent comments: "It cuts out the technical jargon and simply tells one how to perform the task." "It was easy to understand and you add humor to the mix." "This book explained the Internet in terms any non-computer person can understand." "I am a beginner in computers. The book gave me some understanding of the Internet and is very helpful as a reference." "I liked the language, ease of use, thougoughness. Anyone can learn something from this book." 'Easy to find things. Love the plastic ring binder..." "Short concise and easy to read through once and reference items later."
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Summary: The Internet for Dummies (--For Dummies)
Review: Probably the hardest books to review are those that have the potential to be the very best and just don't make the grade. The authors have impressive backgrounds in the subject. The "For Dummies" series offers the potential for superior editorial guidance. Yet I felt that this book fell substantially short. Although many subjects were covered in depth the book consistently left me wondering "where's the beef?" For example many topics were often covered in just a perfunctory way leaving me thinking "I need more information on this subject just to begin the subject." Two examples of this are the coverage of downloading software off the WWW and ICQ. What if the authors would have not told their continual little cutsey jokes and puns and supplied more information? What if the publisher had not left so much unprinted space on each page and supplied more text? Perhaps then they would have delivered a superior book. As it is it is just mediocre.
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