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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Finding Things in This Book | |
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| The Cast of Icons | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Where Did That Web Site Go? | |
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| Feedback, Please | |
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| Getting to Know the Internet | |
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| What Is the Internet? | |
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| What's So Great about the Internet? | |
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| What Services Does the Internet Provide? | |
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| Will the Internet Take a Bunch of Your Time? | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Hooking Up to the Internet First Class | |
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| Cable TV | |
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| Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) | |
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| Direct connection | |
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| ISDN | |
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| Hooking Up to the Internet Economy | |
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| Free e-mail and Internet access services | |
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| Network computers | |
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| Secondhand computers | |
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| Set-top boxes | |
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| Smart phones | |
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| Libraries and cybercafes | |
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| Hooking Up to the Internet Coach | |
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| Buying a Computer for Internet Access | |
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| Macintosh versus Windows | |
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| iMac | |
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| Desktop versus laptop | |
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| This year's model versus last year's model | |
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| Making sure that your computer is cable ready | |
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| Memory, hard disk, monitor, printer, and backup | |
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| Should you upgrade the computer you have? | |
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| What should you do with your old computer? | |
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| Modems | |
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| Modem specs | |
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| Modem types | |
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| "What do the lights on my modem mean?" | |
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| Other modem tips | |
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| Telephone line tips | |
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| Selecting an Internet Service Provider | |
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| Value-added online services | |
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| Internet service providers | |
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| PPP and shell accounts | |
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| Software for Internet Access | |
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| The Internet and the Year 2000 Problem | |
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| Electronic Mail | |
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| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
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| ABCs of E-Mail | |
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| Electronic etiquette | |
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| E-mail caveats | |
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| Finding e-mail addresses | |
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| Free e-mail | |
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| Headers | |
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| Rejected mail | |
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| Accounts on Online Services | |
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| Addresses | |
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| "What's my address?" | |
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| Host names and domain names | |
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| IP addresses | |
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| Top-level domains | |
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| Port numbers | |
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| X.400 addresses | |
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| URLs versus e-mail addresses | |
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| Smileys and Emoticons | |
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| Using America Online (AOL) | |
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| Finding an address | |
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| Reading incoming mail | |
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| Sending new mail | |
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| Replying to messages | |
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| Forwarding messages | |
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| Saving messages | |
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| Using Eudora (Windows and Mac) | |
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| Configuring Eudora | |
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| Getting incoming mail | |
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| Reading incoming mail | |
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| Sending new mail | |
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| Replying to messages | |
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| Forwarding messages | |
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| Saving messages | |
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| Reading saved messages | |
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| Attaching a file | |
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| Using Juno (Windows) | |
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| Getting and installing Juno software | |
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| Using the address book | |
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| Reading incoming mail | |
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| Composing and sending new mail | |
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| Replying to messages | |
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| Forwarding messages | |
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| Saving messages in a folder | |
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| Using Netscape (Windows and Mac) | |
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| Setting up Netscape for e-mail | |
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| Getting and reading incoming mail | |
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| Sending new mail | |
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| Replying to messages | |
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| Forwarding messages | |
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| Saving messages in folders | |
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| Reading saved messages | |
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| Using Outlook Express | |
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| Getting and reading incoming mail | |
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| Sending new mail | |
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| Replying to messages | |
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| Forwarding messages | |
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| Saving messages in folders | |
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| Using Pine (UNIX) | |
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| Running Pine | |
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| Reading incoming mail | |
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| Sending new mail | |
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| Replying to messages | |
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| Forwarding messages | |
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| Saving messages to a file | |
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| Usenet Newsgroups | |
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| DejaNews and Usenet Indexers | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | |
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| Newsgroup Names | |
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| News Netiquette | |
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| Posting Your First Article | |
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| Ramp Up Your Own Newsgroup | |
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| Reading News with DejaNews | |
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| Searching DejaNews | |
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| Using DejaNews as a newsreader | |
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| Reading a newsgroup that's not on the list | |
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| Subscribing to newsgroups | |
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| Unsubscribing from newsgroups | |
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| Saving articles | |
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| Replying to articles by e-mail | |
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| Posting a follow-up article | |
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| Posting a new article | |
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| Mailing Lists | |
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| Addresses Used with Mailing Lists | |
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| Finding a Mailing List | |
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| Getting On and Off a Mailing List | |
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| Lists maintained manually | |
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| Lists maintained automatically | |
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| Open and Closed Mailing Lists | |
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| Receiving Digested Mailing List | |
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| Sending Messages to a Mailing List | |
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| Special Requests to Mailing Lists | |
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| Starting Your Own Mailing List | |
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| Using Filters | |
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| The World Wide Web | |
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| ABCs of the Web | |
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| Finding Your Way around the Web | |
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| Kids, Porn, and the Web | |
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| Access supervision | |
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| Buying filtering software | |
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| Using an online service with built-in filtering | |
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| Plug-Ins, Helper Programs, and ActiveX Controls | |
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| WinZip (Windows only) | |
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| StuffIt Expander and DropStuff with Expander Enhancer | |
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| RealPlayer (formerly RealAudio) | |
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| Acrobat Reader | |
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| Macromedia Shockwave | |
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| Apple QuickTime | |
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| Privacy, Security, and Cookies | |
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| Cookies | |
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| Secure surfing | |
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| Problems and Error Messages | |
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| Displaying a page takes too long | |
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| Error message "The server does not have a DNS entry" | |
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| Error message "www.bigsite.com has refused your connection" or "Broken pipe" | |
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| Error message "404 File Not Found" | |
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| Your browser keeps crashing | |
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| Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) | |
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| Using AOL to Browse the Web | |
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| Starting the browser | |
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| Going to a URL | |
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| Using bookmarks | |
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| Using Internet Explorer to Browse the Web | |
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| Running Internet Explorer | |
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| Following a hypertext link | |
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| Going to a URL | |
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| Playing favorites | |
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| Go for history | |
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| Using Lynx to Browse the Web | |
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| Starting Lynx | |
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| Browsing with Lynx | |
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| Using Netscape Navigator to Browse the Web | |
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| Running Netscape | |
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| Following a hypertext link | |
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| Going to a URL | |
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| Using bookmarks | |
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| Remembering where you came from | |
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| Using Netscape plug-ins | |
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| Finding and Using Resources on the Internet | |
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| Directories, Search Engines, and Portals | |
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| Directories | |
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| Engines that search | |
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| Portal sites | |
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| Portals with a twist | |
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| Power searching | |
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| Search strategies | |
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| Great Surfing Ideas | |
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| Information Sources | |
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| The CIA World Fact Book | |
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| Maps | |
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| Regional information providers | |
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| CityNet | |
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| World time | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Newspapers | |
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| Magazines and Literature | |
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| Shareware and Freeware Software | |
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| c\net Shareware.com | |
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| The Info-Mac Archive | |
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| Shopping Online from A to Z | |
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| Airlines | |
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| Books | |
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| Condoms | |
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| Dolls and other collectibles | |
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| Electronic auctions | |
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| Flowers | |
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| Groceries | |
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| Houses | |
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| Internet service providers | |
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| Jobs | |
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| Love | |
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| Macintoshes | |
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| Overcoats and boots | |
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| PCs and accessories | |
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| Quesadillas | |
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| Radios | |
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| Stocks and bonds | |
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| Tapes and CDs | |
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| Used cars | |
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| Vitamins | |
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| Web page design | |
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| Xylophones | |
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| Yankees tickets | |
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| Zen | |
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| "Should You Give Out Your Credit Card Number over the Internet?" | |
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| The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software (TUCOWS) | |
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| Telephone Directories | |
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| Uncompressing and Decoding Retrieved Files | |
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| .hqx | |
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| .gif | |
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| .gz and .z | |
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| JPEG | |
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| MPEG | |
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| .sit | |
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| .tar | |
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| .Z | |
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| .ZIP | |
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| Usenet Search Engines | |
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| Viruses | |
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| Online Communication | |
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| Chatting Online | |
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| Conversations: They can be hard to follow | |
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| Etiquette for chatting | |
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| Safe chatting | |
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| Smileys, abbreviations, and emoticons | |
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| Weeding out disruptive chatters | |
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| Chatting on America Online (AOL) | |
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| Beginning to chat | |
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| Rooms with a view | |
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| Choosing a screen name | |
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| Filing a complaint | |
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| Instant messages | |
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| Private rooms | |
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| Profiles | |
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| Buddy Lists | |
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| Making sounds | |
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| ICQ | |
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| Getting ICQ | |
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| Making contact | |
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| Let's chat | |
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| Taking a message | |
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| Filing a complaint | |
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| Internet Relay Chat (IRC) | |
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| Starting IRC | |
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| Picking a server | |
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| Issuing IRC commands | |
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| IRC channels | |
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| Joining a channel | |
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| Leaving a channel | |
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| Listing available channels | |
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| Choosing an IRC nickname | |
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| Holding a private conversation | |
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| Starting your own channel | |
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| Types of channels | |
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| Filing a complaint | |
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| Getting more info | |
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| Web-Based Chat | |
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| MUDs and MOOs | |
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| Using MUDs | |
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| Finding MUDs | |
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| Getting started in MUDs | |
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| Internet Telephony | |
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| Advanced Topics | |
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| Encryption and Internet Security | |
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| Cryptography | |
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| Public-key cryptography | |
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| The politics of cryptography | |
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| How secure is public-key cryptography? | |
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| Key size | |
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| Government access to keys and key recovery | |
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| Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator | |
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| Outlook Express and Netscape Messenger | |
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| Pretty Good Privacy | |
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| Obtaining a copy of PGP | |
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| Getting started with PGP | |
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| Public-key Infrastructure | |
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| Passwords and pass phrases | |
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| Java and Network Computers | |
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| Java applets | |
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| Network computers | |
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| Internet Radio | |
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| Creating Your Own Web Home Page | |
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| Why would you want your own home page? | |
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| Building your page | |
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| Tips for effective Web pages | |
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| Web page maintenance | |
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| HTML editors | |
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| Creating a home page on America Online | |
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| Publicizing your page | |
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| Link exchanges and Webrings | |
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| META tags | |
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| Starting a Business on the Web | |
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| Classic Internet | |
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| FTP | |
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| Using FTP programs | |
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| Navigating files and directories | |
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| Uploading and downloading files | |
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| Telnet | |
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| Using telnet from a Winsock or MacTCP program | |
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| Connecting to remote computers | |
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| Disconnecting from remote computers | |
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| UNIX commands | |
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| Using Gopher to Cruise Gopherspace | |
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| Finger | |
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| Internet Country Codes | |
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| Techie Talk | |
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| Index | |
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| IDG Books Worldwide Registration Card | |