"An Online World" gives far more detailed information about modems, terminal software, and electronic communications than you will find in most general books on the Internet. The book is interlaced with practical tips that come from the authors' rich and varied experience on-line. And so it has value to the millions of new on-liners who have just connected in the past year or two to Prodigy, CompuServe or America Online and in the past year have discovered the Internet. The authors assume readers have a minimum level of knowledge and anyone who has been on-line for six months to a year will feel comfortable with the book's level of difficulty." "It ended up being a much more detailed and informational book than anticipated."
The "information superhighway" is a vast treasure house of information. One of the strengths of The Online World is its clear, easy to understand explanation of many of the mystifying parts of the online world: downloading and uploading, addressing, e-mail, modems, file transfers, etc.
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