Go Surfing at Red Eye

Late in 1995 I had the opportunity to write a New Zealand edition of an Australian guide for first-time users of the Internet. The original edition, called Surf's Up: Internet Australian Style was written by the Internet Princess Katherine Phelps, and draws on her long personal experience of computers, online communication and participation in virtual communities.

In the New Zealand edition, published early in 1996 and called appropriately enough Surf's Up: Internet New Zealand Style Katherine and I included some history of the Internet in New Zealand, some information on local Web sites, and contact details for New Zealand-based Internet Service Providers (ISPs). If you want to buy a copy, you can order it direct from Reed Publishing. The book includes an offer of free setup for an Internet account through The Internet Company of New Zealand, so if you don't yet have your own personal Internet account, or you want to get someone else online, this could be the offer you've been waiting for.

If you want to see the kind of stuff Katherine and I include in the book, you can browse through the table of contents or introduction online. I even played with the idea of placing all the hypertext links online as well, until I realised that Yahoo! or Google can do a much better job of keeping the links up to date than I can. If you are new to the Internet, I encourage you to make use of their services as a starting point.

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