Surfergrrrls: Look, Ethel! An Internet Guide For Us! - Softcover

Gilbert & Kile

9781878067791: Surfergrrrls: Look, Ethel! An Internet Guide For Us!

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878067796 ISBN 13: 9781878067791

Publisher: Seal Press, 1996

Calling all cyberchicks, wired women and girl geek wannabes, as well as any woman ready to merge onto the digital freeway. SurferGrrrls is the perfect companion for your trip. Long-time computer jocks Kile and Gilbert will take you step-by-step through the process of how to get online and how to make the most of it once you're there.
Breezy, smart and accessible, SurferGrrrls will bust you free from the shackles of technophobia, reveal the secret history of women in computing, encourage you as you work your way from newbie to net goddess by earning SurferGrrrl Scout merit badges, enhance your popular culture repertoire with a masterful dose of cyborg culture info, and point you toward fabulous resources for women and girls on the Internet and the World Wide Web.

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The Internet may still be male-dominated, but it won't be for long if enough women get their hands on this Internet guide for the estrogen-charged. With plenty of wit and lots of attitude, Gilbert and Kile make it clear that a woman's place is on the Net. They make the computers welcoming for the technophobic and return women to their proper place of respect in computer history. The book is loaded with tips for online enjoyment, great online resources for women and profiles of real-life and fictional cyber-role-models.

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Navigating the landscape of the Internet and understanding the subtilties of it's geography can be a frustrating and anxst-ridden experience, especially for newbies (official term). SurferGrrrls is here to be your guide and to re-feminize computer history and culture. If your looking for a dry listing of Websites, this book isn't it (although many women-powered "Hotlists" can be found throughout). Rich and colorful, replete with history, factoids and interviews, Surfer Grrrls offers advice from many technospapiens of the female persuasion. It explains jargon such as FTP, IRC, DNS, SLIP/PPP (more official terms), addresses hardware and modem issues, how to pick an Internet Service Provider, cybersex and how to find all the great and interesting things wired women of all ages are doing (and have done). This book offers both cultural perspective and nitty-gritty how-to rolled into one. Surfer Grrrls does more than dymystify cyberspace for the technologically challenged, it illustrates that computer geekdom is, in no way, strictly a male domain. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff

Surfer Grrrls is written by women and specifically for those legions of women who now want to get online. This cyberguide for women is clear, to the point, and easy to use, and it takes women step-by-step through the process of how to get online and how to make the most of it when there. But much more than just a how-to guidebook or listing of cool Websites, Surfer Grrrls also explores the culture and history of the Internet and interviews important online women, showing where women have been, what they're doing now, and encouraging readers to get out there and make their own mark in the cyberscape! -- Midwest Book Review

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