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A short time ago, the Western press fell in love with something called the Internet. The Information Highway was about to arrive, and boy, was it ever going to be great.
Four or so years later, the heavy breathing has yet to subside. Granted, we're hearing less about the dawn of a global library and more about the evils of bomb recipes and dirty pictures. But the Net is more talked- and written-about than ever. For all that, though, the vast majority of this country's population remains entirely clueless. What is e-mail? How do you build a web site? Where Do You Want to Go Today? The answers to these questions are still beyond most people -- as they were four years ago.
Back in 1994, Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead set out to provide the nation with answers. Their Canadian Internet Handbook was a monster bestseller. More than a quarter-million copies were sold, and the handbook still re-mains the only Internet book to ever reach the number-one spot on national non-fiction bestseller lists. Carroll and Broadhead...