They read so much content online, I hate to remind them that they are still, in fact, actually reading. Today, my children prefer screens to books. The approach to distributing this information was not even through a clickable e-book. At the start of the Internet as an everyday consumer tool, people were still comfortable with books they could touch and feel. This book is also a great example of how differently we consume information today. With digital content growing exponentially, imagine how thick this book would be today. I suppose that as the Internet exploded, this book and others like it (in paper!) quickly became impossible to update and not feasible to publish. And, according to the cover, people may have paid US$23.95 for it. This handy reference book, published in 1999 by Internet Media Corporation for Sony WebTV users, is a mere half-inch thick at 394 pages. I needed to be sure that The New York Times had a website. Now gather ‘round, children… When I logged into AOL with my dial-up 14.4 fax modem, it took 45 minutes for a Web page to load. How else would you know what was out there on the Internet? Organized in categories such as “Consumer/Business, & Self Help” and “Science/Education/Technology,” a guide for finding information on the Web seemed like a good idea at the time. Now, it is best used to blow the minds of the millennials here at BZ Media. My husband kept this book because he thought it looked useful at the time.
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