Welcome to the Web! The Internet and the World Wide Web are great places to be right now. We use the term "place" because so many of the things you can do online are similar to the things you can do wherever people gather together--in homes, schools, libraries, shopping malls, or at family reunions or town meetings. The Net allows people to learn, shop, find crucial information, and to participate in communities, whether they're local, global, or simply virtual. In these chapters that we've written about the Net, the World Wide Web, and Yahoo!, we hope to convey just a little of the excitement we feel when we make our way online...
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