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Writer: A.J. Jacobs; Genre: Computers and the Internet
B+
AMERICA OFF-LINE: THE COMPLETE OUTERNET STARTER KIT A.J. Jacobs (Andrews and McMeel, $8.95) Trendy Outernet service America Off-Line boasts 250 million members and a sophisticated interactive network -- the World Wide World. Meet interesting people through Internet-like chat rooms, known as ''parties.'' Take advantage of the lightweight word processor with an automatic save function, the ''pencil.'' Learn about antivirus programs that implement chicken soup. With easy-to-follow tips to orient ''newbies,'' EW staff writer Jacobs cleverly uploads the obvious in this caustic, deadpan, at-least-three-snickers-a-page spoof of cyberspace that would have us treat ''nonvirtual Reality'' as merely the place where we plug in our modems. B+
Posted Nov 15, 1996
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