K.I.S.S Guide To The Internet [antikvár]

ForewordThe magazine I edit, Yahoo! Internet Life, is generally aimed at a sophisticated (though nontechnical) web user. Yet we, too, believe passionately in the art of keeping it simple. From the beginning, I always felt it was important to cover the creative chaos that is the Internet in an orderly, common-sense way. To be confused by this brash new digital world does not mean you're a dummy or an idiot, as some would have it. On the contrary, most bright and educated people know how important it is to master the essentials of the Internet. But most of us have lives, too. We may be lawyers or doctors or candlestick makers, but what we don't have is the time to decipher the obscure, technical, and ever-changing instructions of the computer and Internet worlds.I fell hard for this new world in the mid-SOs. Though I was always more a klutz than a geek when it came to software and hardware, I was thrilled by what these new machines could do, especially when they began to be connected to each other. It seemed as if every few months there were dazzling new tricks they could perform. But I was astonished at how poorly the inventors of these tricks explained themselves. Manuals - when they could be called that - were unreadable. Screens popped up without instructions. You didn't know how to start, what to do, how to exit. Exciting new programs were created that promised you could write more efficiently, balance your budget, send messages, pay your bills. But the task of telling you how to do these things seemed to be the last thing on the inventors' minds, and was often assigned to non-English speakers. At least it wasn't any language I understood.