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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Who Are You? | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| What Now? | |
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| Feedback, Please | |
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| Welcome to the Internet | |
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| What Is the Internet? What Is the Web? | |
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| So What's All the Hoopla? | |
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| A Few Real-Life Stories | |
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| Why Is This Medium Different from Any Other Medium? | |
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| Some Thoughts about Safety and Privacy | |
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| The Internet at Home, at Work, at School, and at Play | |
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| At Home with the Internet | |
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| The Internet at Work | |
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| The Internet at School | |
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| The Internet at Play | |
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| Kids and the Net | |
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| Can We Talk? | |
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| Internet Resources for Kids | |
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| The Internet in Schools | |
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| Internet, Here 1 Come! | |
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| Picking Your Internet Service | |
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| Do You Have a Computer? | |
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| Modems, Ho! | |
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| Who Ya Gonna Call? | |
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| Faster Connections: The Beauty of Bandwidth | |
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| Picking an ISP | |
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| Back to Software | |
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| Online and On Your Way | |
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| Your Computer Needs Software to Get Connected | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| Connecting to Dial-Up Accounts | |
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| Connecting to DSL and Cable Accounts | |
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| Connecting to America Online | |
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| Sharing Your Internet Connection | |
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| What's Next? | |
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| Web Mania | |
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| Welcome to the Wild, Wonderful, Wacky Web | |
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| Name That Page | |
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| Browsing Off | |
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| Surfing with Your Browser | |
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| Getting and Installing a Browser | |
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| Wrangling with the Web | |
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| Windows on the World | |
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| My Favorite Things | |
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| Speeding Things Up | |
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| Getting the Big Picture | |
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| Filling in Forms | |
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| Lower the Cone of Silence | |
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| Save Me! | |
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| The Dead-Tree Thing (Printing) | |
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| Keep Your Cookies Crumbs Off My Computer | |
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| Getting Plugged In: Singing, Dancing, and Chatting with Your Browser | |
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| Needles and Haystacks: Finding Stuff on the Net | |
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| Your Basic Search Strategy | |
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| Search-a-Roo | |
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| We're from Your Browser, and We're Here to Help You | |
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| The Usual Suspects | |
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| Finding Companies | |
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| Finding People | |
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| Getting the Goods | |
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| More Shopping, Less Dropping | |
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| Shopping Online: Pros and Cons | |
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| The Credit Card Question | |
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| Going to the Store | |
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| Up, Up, and Away | |
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| Pure Money | |
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| Even More Places to Shop | |
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| The Shopping Update | |
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| My First Home Page | |
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| Creating a Web Page | |
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| Pictures to Go | |
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| Linking to Other Pages | |
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| Good Page Design | |
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| Putting Your Page on the Web | |
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| Be Master of Your Domain | |
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| Open a Farm Stand on the Information Superhighway | |
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| Shout It Out! | |
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| E-Mail, Chat, and Other Ways to Hang Out Online | |
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| It's in the Mail | |
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| What's My Address? | |
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| My Mail Is Where? | |
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| Too Many E-Mail Programs | |
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| Popular E-Mail Programs | |
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| Setting up Your E-Mail Program | |
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| Sending Mail Is Easy | |
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| Mail Coming Your Way | |
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| A Few Words from the Etiquette Ladies | |
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| How Private Is E-Mail? | |
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| To Whom Do I Write? | |
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| Putting Your Mail in Its Place | |
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| Deleting Mail | |
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| Back to You, Sam: Replying to Mail | |
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| Keeping Track of Your Friends | |
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| Hot Potatoes: Forwarding Mail | |
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| Cold Potatoes: Saving Mail | |
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| Exotic Mail and Mail Attachments | |
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| Hey, Mr. Robot | |
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| Your Own Personal Mail Manager | |
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| Spam, Bacon, Spam, Eggs, and Spam | |
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| I Think I've Got a Virus | |
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| Online Communities: Let's Get Together | |
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| Look Who's Talking | |
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| Mailing Lists: Are You Sure That This Isn't Junk Mail? | |
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| Discussions on the Web: Posting to Message Boards | |
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| Typing, Talking, and Video over the Net | |
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| Adding Voices and Faces | |
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| ICQ: I Seek You | |
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| AOL Instant Messenger | |
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| Yahoo Messenger | |
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| Dozens of Other Message and Paging Systems | |
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| Groupspeak: Let's Chat | |
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| Look Who's Chatting | |
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| Your First Chat Room | |
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| Let's Chat | |
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| Other Internet Essentials | |
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| Swiping Files from the Net | |
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| Downloading Files from the Web | |
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| About Face! Up You Go! | |
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| Uploading and Downloading with Web Folders | |
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| Sharing among Ourselves | |
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| It's Not Just a File--It's Software | |
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| Where Is It? | |
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| AOL: Can Twenty Million Users Really Be Wrong? | |
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| Hello, America Online | |
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| Using E-Mail from AOL | |
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| Going Offline | |
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| Using AOL to Connect to the Net | |
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| Web Browsing from AOL | |
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| Chatting with AOL and AIM Users | |
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| Grabbing Files from FTP Servers | |
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| Using AOL as an Internet Account | |
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| Doing Other Things | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Frequently Asked Questions | |
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| "Why Can't You Just Give Me Step-by-Step Instructions?" | |
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| "Are the Internet and the World Wide Web the Same Thing?" | |
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| "What's the Difference Between a Browser and a Search Engine?" | |
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| "Should I Get Cable or DSL?" | |
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| "Can I Change My E-Mail Address?" | |
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| "How Can I Get a File from My Word Processor into E-Mail?" | |
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| "Is It Safe to Use My Credit Card on the Net?" | |
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| "How Important Is This Internet Stuff?" | |
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| "What's the Best ISP?" | |
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| "How Can I Make Money on the Net?" | |
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| "What Type of Computer Should I Buy to Use the Internet?" | |
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| "How Can I Erase My Browser's List of the Web Pages I've Been Looking At?" | |
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| "What's Your Favorite Web Page?" | |
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| Ten Types of Files and What to Do with Them | |
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| How Many Kinds of Files Are There? | |
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| Just Plain Text | |
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| Any Last Requests Before We Execute You? | |
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| Packing It In | |
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| For the Artistically Inclined | |
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| Sound Off! | |
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| Music to My Ears | |
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| A Trip to the Movies | |
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| None of the Above | |
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| Ten Fun Things You Can Do on the Net | |
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| Send Greeting Cards | |
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| Share Pictures with Your Friends and Family | |
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| Watch Short Movies and TV Ads | |
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| Play a Game of Checkers | |
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| Watch the World Go By | |
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| Share Your Diary | |
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| Visit Art Museums around the World | |
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| Build Your Own World | |
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| Tour the Solar System | |
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| Search for Extraterrestrial Life | |
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| Adopt a Kid | |
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| Study Chinese | |
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| Browse the NPR Archives | |
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| Ten Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Klutz | |
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| Read Before You Write | |
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| Netiquette Matters | |
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| Flame Off! | |
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| Viruses, Spam, Chain Letters, and Other Antisocial Mail | |
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| Don't Be a Pig | |
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| Cybercafe Etiquette | |
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| Some Web Wisdom | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |