The Internet For Dummies

Introduction

PART I: GETTING TO KNOW THE INTERNET

What Is the Internet?

What's So Great about the Internet?

What Services Does the Internet Provide?

Will the Internet Take All Your Free Time

PART II: GETTING STARTED

Hooking Up to the Internet with Broadband

Hooking Up to the Internet Cheap

Hooking Up to the Internet By Dial-Up

Investing in a Computer for Internet Access

Modems

Selecting an Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Software for Internet Access

PART III: ELECTRONIC MAIL

ABCs of E-Mail

Acronyms, Smileys, and Emoticons

Addresses

America Online and CompuServe Addresses

Attachments

Using America Online (AOL)

Using Eudora (Windows and Mac)

Using Netscape Mail (Windows, Mac, Linux, and UNIX)

Using OS X Mail (Mac)

Using Outlook Express (Windows and Mac)

Using Pine (Linux and UNIX)

PART IV: USENET NEWSGROUPS

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Google Groups and Usenet Indexers

Newsgroup Names

Newsgroup Netiquette

Posting Your First Article

Ramping Up Your Own Newsgroup

Reading Newsgroups at Google Groups

Reading Newsgroups with a Newsreader

PART V: MAILING LISTS

Addresses Used with Mailing Lists

Finding a Mailing List

Getting On and Off a Mailing List

Open and Closed Mailing Lists

Receiving Digested Mailing Lists

Sending Messages to a Mailing List

Sending Special Requests to Mailing Lists

Starting Your Own Mailing List

Using Filters to Sort Your Mailing List Messages

PART VI: THE WORLD WIDE WEB

ABCs of the Web

Bookmark or Save?

Finding Your Way around the Web

Kids, Porn, and the Web

Plug-Ins, Helper Programs, and ActiveX Controls

Privacy, Security, and Cookies

Problems and Error Messages

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

Using AOL to Browse the Web

Using Internet Explorer to Browse the Web

Using Netscape Navigator to Browse the Web

PART VII: FINDING AND USING RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

Directories,

John Levine (Trumansburg, NY) is an internationally acclaimed Internet authority, author and the host of his own radio show. He's written two dozen books ranging from Linkers and Loaders (O'Reilly) to The Internet For Dummies (Wiley). He also runs online newsgroups and mailing lists, hosts a hundred websites and consults on programming languages and Internet topics.Margaret Levine Young has co-authored several dozen computer books about the Internet, UNIX, WordPerfect, Access, and (stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including The Internet For Dummies and Windows XP Home Edition: The Complete Reference.