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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: 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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Summary: AT LEAST I KNOW WHATS GOING ON!!!!!
Review: THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU, THIS BOOK IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. NOW I DON'T FEEL LIKE A DUMMIE!AFTER THE FIRST CHAPTER, I COULDN'T WAIT TO GET TO MY NEW COMPUTER & REALIZE WHAT A BROWSER BAR WAS AS WELL AS A TOOLBAR. I DO INDEED PLAN TO BUY WINDOWS 98' FOR DUMMIES. THANKS AGAIN FOR MAKING ME FEEL ABIT WISER.
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Summary: Dummies-books=Top Info. Rest mostly unnecessary complicated
Review: The authors seem to be able to put themselves into the thinking of the newcomer.
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Summary: Cannot recommend this book
Review: The book was marketed to me with unsolicited E-Mail from an undeliverable address. For me, this is reason enough not to buy this book on the Internet.
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Summary: Levine et al's Internet for Dummies
Review: The Editor has done an excellent job of reviewing, as usual, and I just want to add a few details. Levine has a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale, and Young also has a Degree from Yale. You generally cannot go wrong with a mathematics, physics, or computer science book from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, etc. The ability to translate difficult concepts into ordinary English for all people requires Creative Genius of the highest order. See my reviews of some of the Schaum's Outlines and Scientific American for more on this, and some of my other mathematics and physics book reviews discuss it too. Translating in these fields requires moving from quantitative to qualitative or verbal language, and it often helps inspire the expert as much as the reader with new ideas. Levine et al are experts at summarizing, alphabetizing, isolating the core concepts, isolating errors and counterexamples, all of them key skills in translating into ordinary English.
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Summary: This book is the best internet book that I want to have.
Review: This book is like a dream come true. I liked this book the best because it is made of plastic cover.
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