The Internet for Dummies
by John R. Levine, Carol Baroudi, Margaret Levine Young, Arnold Reinhold, Hy Bender, Geoff Ebbs · first published 1993
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on “Ask HN: Is there a good guide to the Internet that I can buy for my Dad?” ↗…repurposed shipping container) to answer tech support emails, and at home we could dial in for free. This is where "unschooling" truly began. I had Microsoft Encarta that came with the PC, I had a book called Internet For Dummies, and I had virtually unlimited access to information. I also ate once every 2 days, and it was rice and shitty meat more often than not. I won't say where I am today, but I will say that it all worked…
on “How do unschoolers turn out? (2014)” ↗…tons of hours poring over many FAQs that I got by doing "ftp rtfm.mit.edu" and then going to the FAQs section, downloading and reading them. I even bought a book about using the Internet (I think it was Internet for Dummies :), also bought Modems for Dummies, to learn how to use my dial-up modem at home with my PC) and from one of those books, found this great resource called "Accessing the Internet by Email". It had ways…
on “Tell HN: I miss the old internet” ↗…repurposed shipping container) to answer tech support emails, and at home we could dial in for free. This is where "unschooling" truly began. I had Microsoft Encarta that came with the PC, I had a book called Internet For Dummies, and I had virtually unlimited access to information. This was a breakthrough moment for me also. The local ISP offered shell or SLIP accounts, but SLIP was more expensive so I had a shell account.…
on “How do unschoolers turn out? (2014)” ↗I remember having AOL back in the very early web days, just after they added the browser. My dad had an "Internet for Dummies" book, which had a directory of websites to try. I, as maybe a 10 year old, could not properly type all the characters in the URL correctly and I gave up on this so-called World Wide Web. It seemed way…
on “AOL Pretends to Be the Internet” ↗…help & outsiders who pitched in, but I'd also say that this all-ness we can connect to has some of the least guidelines, terrible ability to orient oneself or understand or decypher it. Ateasy growing up Internet For Dummies was a book and covered a decent fraction of what we might find. Now that all society is here the guidebook to the internet it's use and it's dangers is vastly deeper.
on “Being Raised by the Internet” ↗