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- REVIEW: BEST OF THE NET, Seth Godin, ed. IDG Books, 1995
-
- Here's another guidebook to the Internet's treasures which should keep
- any serious Internaut occupied for weeks! Editor Godin posted a request
- for nominations where he requested readers to send in their suggestions
- for the "best stuff on the Net - everything from newsgroups to gopher and
- WWW sites.....tell us the best games you've played, great mailing lists
- you've joined..." It only took a handful of postings and the results are
- contained in this interesting volume.
-
- As Seth Godin stated in his posting: "....this isn't intended to be a
- comprehensive listing of everything available on the Net. It's just the
- best stuff according to the people who are actually using the Internet,
- instead of just writing about it."
-
- This book is the result. Subjects range from Acronyms to Zines and
- everything in between, such as Baseball, Beavis and Butt-head, CIA, Hackers,
- Crime, Disney, Drugs, Elvis, Encryption, Flames, IRC, Letterman, Limbaugh,
- M*A*S*H, Military, MUDs, Pizza, Prozac, Monty Python, Recipes,Sex, Shareware,
- The Simpsons, The Terrorist Handbook, Viruses and a whole lot more.
-
- The book is well presented - you can read through it from beginning to end
- or just pick it up and go to any particular topic of your choice. BEST
- OF THE NET is loaded with photographs, illustrations and sidebars that
- make it an entertaining read in short segments while you're sitting in
- front of your terminal looking for something to amuse and entertain yourself.
- This is definitely a great book to keep on your desk to alleviate momentary
- boredom.
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-
- %T BEst of the Net
- %A Seth Godin, editor
- %I IDG Books
- %C Foster City California
- %D 1995
- %O $22.99
- %G ISBN: 1-56884-313-5
- %P 430 pp, paperbound
- %K Internet, computer networks,
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-
- (C) 1995
- Michael Crestohl
- Nahant Massachusetts USA
- mc@shore.net
-
- DISCLAIMER: I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in the success or
- failure of the book or materials reviewed herewith, nor have I received any
- compensation (other than a review copy requested by me) from anyone who has.
- All opinions expressed are strictly my own.
-
- Other Internet and Aviation book/software reviews by me can be obtained
- by anonymous FTP from: x2ftp.oulu.fi in the /pub/books/crestohl directory.
-