Updated for Windows 95, this book describes the tools that Windows 95 Internet explorers use to get the most out of the Internet. The best source of information about the World Wide Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Netscape, the book provides thorough coverage of Windows 95 Internet features plus an understanding of how to get and use popular free software for the Internet. Includes a resource index covering important resources ranging from a virtual online university to travel tips.

A user's guide to Internet, a computer network, explaining the resources of the network and how to use them. This edition includes an expanded, subject oriented resource catalog that points you to the resources you want.

A user's guide to Internet, a computer network, explaining the resources of the network and how to use them. This edition includes an expanded, subject oriented resource catalog that points you to the resources you want.

An accessible, comic book-like, illustrated introduction to how the internet works under the hood, designed to give people a basic understanding of the technical aspects of the Internet that they need in order to advocate for digital rights. The internet has profoundly changed interpersonal communication, but most of us don't really understand how it works. What enables information to travel across the internet? Can we really be anonymous and private online? Who controls the internet, and why is that important? And... what's with all the cats? How the Internet Really Works answers these questions and more. Using clear language and whimsical illustrations, the authors translate highly technical topics into accessible, engaging prose that demystifies the world's most intricately linked computer network. Alongside a feline guide named Catnip, you'll learn about: • The "How-What-Why" of nodes, packets, and internet protocols • Cryptographic techniques to ensure the secrecy and integrity of your data • Censorship, ways to monitor it, and means for circumventing it • Cybernetics, algorithms, and how computers make decisions • Centralization of internet power, its impact on democracy, and how it hurts human rights • Internet governance, and ways to get involved This book is also a call to action, laying out a roadmap for using your newfound knowledge to influence the evolution of digitally inclusive, rights-respecting internet laws and policies. Whether you're a citizen concerned about staying safe online, a civil servant seeking to address censorship, an advocate addressing worldwide freedom of expression issues, or simply someone with a cat-like curiosity about network infrastructure, you will be delighted -- and enlightened -- by Catnip's felicitously fun guide to understanding how the internet really works!

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers. Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.

Explains how to deal with everyday problems on the Internet such as unsolicited e-mail and security alerts, and tells how to take advantage of new services on the Web, like buying and selling goods, trading stock, and playing games. Others areas covered include downloading and installing files, creating Web pages, banking, and esoteric and emerging technologies. A 60-page resource catalog describes a wide range of sites, plus celebrities' favorite sites. There is also a section on commercial and financial resources. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Demonstrates the benefits of internet enabled embedded systems using real-world applications. This work examines the techniques required to achieve internet connectivity, starting with how to draw upon those TCP/IP implementations which already exist, right through to developing fresh ones. It also includes a CD-ROM with the TCP/IP stack.

Here is a practical, step-by-step guide to resource discovery designed to be both a tutorial for how and a resource for now. The handbook helps novice or advanced Internet users conduct comprehensive research investigations - and find the answers to quick reference queries. It shows how to find information on the Internet by providing in-depth coverage on all useful and usable resources, including virtual libraries, Internet directories, communities of people, and Internet search tools. Examples of real searches are given for each resource. Methods to streamline locating information and addresses and instructions for a broad but selective list of Internet subject guides, directories and search engines are also offered. Additional sections, including a review of other types of information resources such as electronic discussion lists and conferencing tools, round out this useful manual that is ideal for reference librarians, students and researchers of any kind.