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Zen and the Art of the Internet
Nonfiction e-Book-of-the-Month, July 2000. THIS IS THE LEGENDARY GUIDE to the Internet, finally in e-book form. The electronic version reflects an earlier age, before Netscape made the World Wide Web and dot-com part of the vernacular. Readers looking for illumination on bots, intelligent agents, shopping carts and other more recent developments, should turn instead to the updated print editions. Other sections - for example, on Usenet, telnet and archie - are touchstones to a time when the Internet was largely undiscovered by the public, still a wild, wild, western frontier. Through this all, Brendan Kehoe's seminal work remains one of the most accessible and user-friendly computer books ever written. First written in 1992 as a booklet to serve the needs of Kehoe's Computer Science Department at Widener University, it has become a mainstay of the online generation, prophetic of the Internet age: "One warning is perhaps in order - this territory we are entering can become a fantastic time-sink. Hours can slip by, people can come and go, and you'll be locked into Cyberspace." So it is with this book. Zen and the Art of the Internet brims with the excitement of rediscovery. Even in this age when search engines routinely index billions of pages on the Web, Kehoe's excitement is tangible - interactions in real-time with users halfway around the world, the intricacies of e-mail address routing, flame wars and freedom of speech on Usenet - all these shine again, like polished silver, heirlooms.
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