Cyberscene: A Teen Traveller's Guide to the Web - Softcover

Nick, Moraitis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141302097 ISBN 13: 9780141302096

Publisher: Puffin, 1999

Synopsis

A computer book with a difference, written from an insider's point of view - for teenagers by a teenager. A brilliant, hip and accessible guide to the Internet, to exploring it, accessing it and using its potential to the full.

About this title

From the Author:

An Internet book for people like me.
Hi Everyone! My name is Nick Moraitis. This is my first real chance to talk to you, my Amazon.co.uk readers, and I just thought I'd say a quick hello before I got into the hard sell :)

So what can I tell you about myself? In 1999, I'm doing my second last year of high school near Melbourne in Australia. When I'm not replying to rediculous amounts of e-mail, I'm either out of the country, or my computer is dead. Which means I have to kill it everytime I want to have a break.

So now, what about Cyberscene?

When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Or in this case, flicked your way down the computer page at Amazon? Three years ago, I tried to find an Internet book for a friend's birthday. I wanted something a bit fun, something not too technical - something that didn't call you an idiot or assume you were a nerd.

I walked out of that shop without buying anything and went home to write my own. Cyberscene is what led from that hot summer day at my word-processor. It has been a bit of an adventure, or as my English teacher would say, "a learning experience"...

Ever since Penguin gave me the go-ahead in 1997, I've been madly writing to millions of people trying to arrange interviews, organise pictures and actually find out how the Internet really works.

With Cyberscene my aim was to create a computer book that was not a computer book. Although it gives you all the necessery technical details to connect up, usually I think us teenagers are clever enough to work that bit out (and for adults, there are usually teenagers within range). And anyway, I never really liked the idea of reading manuals.

When I read, it is for inspiration I suppose. So Cyberscene gives you some pointers as to what/where you might go, do or see. Then it lets you decide for yourself. There is no boring twenty-six-page fold-out on "What is a mouse?" or "Is .uk pronouced U-K or Uck?" because really, who cares?

Cyberscene skips the details and cuts straight to the fun. School on the web :-) No, seriously, learning online can be fun!

Still don't believe me? No problem, because there is everything from Entertainment and chat, to online games and e-mail covered.

You could always skip the education chapter and move directly onto web-page building. It's easy, because Cyberscene is built like a webpage. Lots of nice, little easy diversions where you can flick (click) back and forward without getting (too) lost.

So, I really hope you do enjoy it, and, as I said, I'm happy to talk via e-mail whenever (it just adds to the pile...).

About the Author:

Nick Moraitis is the 16-year-old President (and founder) of the Teenage Computer Network, which is the Internet's leading user organisation for 12 - 20 year-olds. An avid net-o-holic since the age of seven, Nick also writes for newspapers and magazines in his native Australia on all things cyber.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0141302097
• ISBN 13: 9780141302096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192