Sunday, January 16, 2005

Kehoe, B.P. (1992)

Kehoe, B.P. (1992) @fyi{Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide to the Internet.} 2nd Edition (July). Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 112 pages. The 1st Edition, (February, 2nd) is still available via anonymous ftp from @host{ftp.cs.widener.edu} and many other Internet archives.
It was the first comprehensive book on the Internet available. (Despite the ``traditional'' postings in @news{news.announce.newusers} originated by ex-net.god Gene Spafford of Purdue University and @news{news.answers} maintained by net.demi-god Janathan I. Kames of MIT).
Situation has changed dramatically, since. More and more books get into the stores, and hopefully facilitate the life of ``newbies.'' Just to mention two IMHO excellent examples: @emindex spaf@cs.purdue.edu @emindex jik@athena.mit.edu