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Postcards from the Net

Jon Casimir

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Description:Postcards From The Net is not the usual How-To guide. It's a Where-To, a Why-To and a What-To.Postcards From The Net is a travel book like no other. fast and funny, it's a thirty-countries-in-thirty-days trawl through the weird, wired and wonderful parallel universe of the World Wide Web.Too many books about the Internet tell you how the road is built rather than where it goes. They tell you how much land there is in cyberspace, but not what the weather's like. They tell you how many computers are hooked up to each other, but not whether the natives are friendly. They tell you how you can get to a place, but why you'd want to go there.Postcards From The Net is not the usual how-to guide. It's a where-to, a why-to and what-to. This book will take you to places the others don't go. It will introduce you to the minds that feed into Net culture, from the input of mainstream media corporations to Japanese Haiku obsessives. You'll explore the debates around censorship on the Net, and be stunned by the relevation that it is quicker to nick off to the newsagent if you want to look at porn. You'll meet celebrities, footy fans, cyberfeminists, X-Files nuts and peole who just want to put up home pages for their pets.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Postcards from the Net. To get started finding Postcards from the Net, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 392

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1996

ISBN: 1864482338

Description: Postcards From The Net is not the usual How-To guide. It's a Where-To, a Why-To and a What-To.Postcards From The Net is a travel book like no other. fast and funny, it's a thirty-countries-in-thirty-days trawl through the weird, wired and wonderful parallel universe of the World Wide Web.Too many books about the Internet tell you how the road is built rather than where it goes. They tell you how much land there is in cyberspace, but not what the weather's like. They tell you how many computers are hooked up to each other, but not whether the natives are friendly. They tell you how you can get to a place, but why you'd want to go there.Postcards From The Net is not the usual how-to guide. It's a where-to, a why-to and what-to. This book will take you to places the others don't go. It will introduce you to the minds that feed into Net culture, from the input of mainstream media corporations to Japanese Haiku obsessives. You'll explore the debates around censorship on the Net, and be stunned by the relevation that it is quicker to nick off to the newsagent if you want to look at porn. You'll meet celebrities, footy fans, cyberfeminists, X-Files nuts and peole who just want to put up home pages for their pets.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Postcards from the Net. To get started finding Postcards from the Net, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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