Get A Grip On The Internet

For the first time in the history of human endeavour, it is possible to find information about practically any subject, at any time, day or night, from your own home, classroom or office. The place to find it? The Internet. The Net is accessible to anyone with a computer and a phone line, but the associated jargon and the mechanics of connecting keep many would-be users firmly in the wilderness, web-wise.

'Get a Grip on the Internet' offers a history of the Internet from its earliest days as a weapon of the Cold War to its 90s incarnation as a kind of digital Delphic oracle. Practical technical advice is interspersed with humorous illustrations. Email, newsgroups, the World Wide Web, it's all here in easy-to-understand, bite-sized chunks.