Book Description
Everything you need to know about the Internet—most accessibly presented and attractively packaged. Following an introduction on the huge differences the Internet has made to modern day life, the bulk of the book contains a much-expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of the Internet - as well as some of its more quirky and inconsequential aspects. Entries include ActiveX , ADSL, Arpanet, B2B, B2C, Backbone, Cookie, Copyleft, Cracker, Cybrarian,, Digerati, Drop-dialling, Emoticon, Encyption, Firewall, Flame, Frame relay, Groupware, HTML, Hypertext, Infomediary, ISDN, Java, Jini, Linkrot, Lurker, Moore's Law, Multicasting, Object oriented, Open source, Packet, PANS, PGP, Ping, Quicktime, Remailer, Router, RSA, Source code, Stickiness, TAG, Thin client, Tiger team, Unix, URL, Uuencode, Viewser, Vortal, Warez, Web ring, XML, Yahoo! and Zmodem.

About the Author
Sean Geer has been writing about IT for more than ten years. Following a spell as managing editor of Wired UK, he is now a freelance writer and consultant specializing in internet-related issues

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Everything you need to know about the Internet—most accessibly presented and attractively packaged.Following an introduction on the huge differences the Internet has made to modern day life, the bulk of the book contains a much-expanded A-Z with several hundred entries that explain the essentials of the Internet - as well as some of its more quirky and inconsequential aspects. Entries include ActiveX , ADSL, Arpanet, B2B, B2C, Backbone, Cookie, Copyleft, Cracker, Cybrarian,, Digerati, Drop-dialling, Emoticon, Encyption, Firewall, Flame, Frame relay, Groupware, HTML, Hypertext, Infomediary, ISDN, Java, Jini, Linkrot, Lurker, Moore's Law, Multicasting, Object oriented, Open source, Packet, PANS, PGP, Ping, Quicktime, Remailer, Router, RSA, Source code, Stickiness, TAG, Thin client, Tiger team, Unix, URL, Uuencode, Viewser, Vortal, Warez, Web ring, XML, Yahoo! and Zmodem.