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Douglas Comer, best-selling networking author, teacher, and consultant, provides a unique and understandable overview of not only how to use the Internet but how it works. In the Third Edition of The INTERNET Book, the author utilizes a nontechnical perspective to explain the technology of how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how the Internet works, and what the Internet can do for people. The authors practical approach offers the reader the big picture by presenting a solid overview of networking and the Internet rather than buying the reader with details. This book sows the reader the potential ways the Internet can change how we conduct our personal and professional lives. Comer assumes no prior background knowledge in computer networking or the Internet. The INTERNET Book: *Provides an overview of Electronic Commerce and how the Internet can be used to conduct business and commercial transactions. *Includes Security and Encryption with respect to Internet commerce, why security is needed, and the technologies that provide secure communications. *Describes getting started with hands on experience with the concept of a Web browser and examples of Web sites to visit. *

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• 1 The Internet has Arrived
• I Introduction to Networking
• 2 Telephones Everywhere
• 3 The World Was Once Analog
• 4 The Once and Future Digital Network
• 5 Basic Communication
• 6 The Local Area Network Arrives
• II A Brief History of the Internet
• 7 Internet: The Early Years
• 8 A Decade of Incredible Growth
• 9 The Global Internet
• 10 A Global Information Infrastructure
• III How the Internet Works
• 11 Packet Switching
• 12 Internet: A Network of Networks
• 13 IP: Software to Create a Virtual Network
• 14 TCP: Software for Reliable Communication
• 15 Clients + Servers = Distributed Computing
• 16 Names for Computers
• 17 Why the Internet Works Well
• IV Services Available on the Internet
• 18 Electronic Mail
• 19 Bulletin Board Service (Network News)
• 20 File Transfer (FTP)
• 21 Remote Login (TELNET)
• 22 Information Browsing (Gopher)
• 23 Advanced Browsing (WWW, Mosaic)
• 24 Tools for Automated Search (Archie, Veronica)
• 25 Automated Search of Document Contents (WAIZ)
• 26 Audio and Video Communication
• 27 The Global Digital Library
• Appendices
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Based on the title, wanna-be Web surfers and e-mailers might think that this is a how-to-manual with which to begin their journey down the information superhighway. Instead, Comer offers a comprehensive and technical explanation of the workings of the Internet, geared to readers who already have some Internet experience. Through simple descriptions and illustrations, the author tackles network hardware, from network cards to routers, and network software, from Internet providers to search engines. The author's teaching expertise is apparent from the appropriate use of summaries at the end of critical passages that might otherwise overwhelm a reader with technical information. The work includes an unusually thorough and detailed history of the Internet, explained from the perspective that networking and the development of the Internet are the natural outgrowths of telephone communication. Redundant for effect, it is sometimes repetitive to a fault. Undergraduates, from the intermediate to the advanced Internet user, would benefit from this work, which fills in the gaps left by other Internet resources and completes the "big picture." All levels. S. Underwood; University of West Alabama

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DOUGLAS COMER is a professor at Purdue University where he teaches popular computer networking courses. He also teaches hundreds of professionals and diverse audiences around the world each year about he Internet. He has written a widely acclaimed and extremely popular series of books on networking and the Internet. He was one of the researchers who contributed to the formation of the Internet in the late 1970s and 1980s. He has served on the Internet Architecture Board, the group responsible for guiding development of the Internet, and is a Fellow of the ACM. He wrote this book in response to everyone who has asked him for an explanation of the Internet that is both technically correct and easily understood.