------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Each chapter heading featured graphical components that are not readily rendered here. See the note for an example. Footnotes appeared in a separate section at the end of the text, with the note number restarting for each chapter. In this version, those numbers are retained, but are prefixed with the chapter number, e.g., 1.1, 2.5, 6.7, etc. There are blocks of text with dotted boundaries, sometime spanning pages, which are inserted into the main text. These have been moved to avoid falling on paragraph breaks, and sometimes joined where page breaks occur. They are given here within a dashed border, in order to call out their separate nature. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. There are many URLs in the text, given the topic, but it is unlikely that any are still extant, given the publication date in 1995. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NETWORLD! what people are really doing on the INTERNET, and what it means to you DAVID H. ROTHMAN “A considerable achievement.”—William F. Buckley, Jr. Current Events/Internet “A considerable achievement. You find yourself wanting to read _NetWorld!_ even if you have no thought of baptism into the great new scene.” —William F. Buckley, Jr. “David H. Rothman has done the best job yet of illustrating exactly how and why the Internet will change the texture of daily life. Most discussion of the information age is full of airy generalizations. _NetWorld!_ is full of specific, amusing, often racy illustrations of how people around the world have already put the Net’s possibilities to work. This is a very useful and entertaining book.” —James Fallows Washington editor of the _Atlantic Monthly_ Exploring Life on the Net