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  • © 1997

Mastering the Internet

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  • Provides a good solid technical foundation on all areas of the Internet Each chapter contains exercises which consolidate learning and understanding Full backup for the book is provided with electronic mail The author has set up a WWW page which contains links to other useful sources of informationWorldwide appeal take up rate of the Internet worldwide is 0million and expanding

Part of the book series: Palgrave Master Series (Computing) (PMSC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Introduction to the Internet

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 1-17
  3. Local Area Networks (Ethernet)

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 19-31
  4. TCP/IP II

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 49-62
  5. Electronic Mail

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 63-86
  6. The World Wide Web

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 87-104
  7. Intranets and HTTP

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 105-118
  8. HTML (Introduction)

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 119-137
  9. HTML (Tables, Forms and Helpers)

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 139-154
  10. JavaScript

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 155-178
  11. Java (Introduction)

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 179-195
  12. Java (Extended functions)

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 197-218
  13. Windows NT/95 Networking

    • William Buchanan
    Pages 219-236
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 237-261

About this book

The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) is growing each day. More and more people require either to access information, send and receive electronic information or just to log into remote computers.

This book provides an up-to-date account of all the component parts of the Internet and the WWW, from architecture through to networking. It discusses key specifications relating to electronic mail, such as MiMe encoding and SMTP, and shows how they are used to send mail around the world.

Full backup for the book is provided with electronic mail and the author has set up a WWW page which contains links to other useful sources of information.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

    William Buchanan

About the author

WILLIAM BUCHANAN is a Senior Lecturer at Napier University, Edinburgh. He is an experienced computing author. He acts as a consultant to many companies, including British Gas, TransCo and is also a founding partner of Real-Time Technologies, which is a start-up company within Napier University.

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