Chapter . Introduction

Hello? Hellooooo? Is anybody there? Nobody reads introductions. I don’t know why I bother.

Oh well, looks like it’s just you and me. So welcome to Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 24 Hours, the book that gets you into and all around the Internet in a single day’s worth of easy lessons. Each of the 24 chapters in this book is called an “Hour,” and is designed to endow you with new Internet skills in one hour or less. (That means you and I can spend only a few minutes here in the Intro and keep on schedule.)

Before we get started, it has come to my attention that a few among the more than 100,000 readers of previous editions of this book were involved in mysterious accidents. For example, a florist in Weehauken arranged and ...

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