Harley Hahn's
Internet Sampler
Imagine that you've just recently learned to read, and you are about to visit a large library for the first time in your life. As you walk in, you are overwhelmed: there are more books than you have ever seen, organized into so many categories that the whole thing becomes a blur.
You think to yourself, in this vast building there must be thousands of things that would interest me. But how do I find them?
You flag down a passing librarian. "Excuse me," you ask, "but where can I find something interesting?"
"Well, what sort of things are you interested in?" she says.
You tell her something or other and she points you in a certain direction. You root around in that area and, eventually, you do find an interesting book.
You go to the library often, but each time you visit you find yourself going to the same sections over and over. After a few weeks, you realize what you really want is something new and exciting. However, whenever you ask the librarian for something interesting, all she says is, "Well, what are you interested in?"
On the Internet, we have the same problem to a much larger degree: If you know what you like, it is possible to find more of the same, but how do you find new things that you don't even know exist?
This is why I created this theme area, Harley Hahn's Internet Sampler. I am willing to bet that if I can get you to explore the Internet with me, you will find more ways to have fun (and to learn) than you would think possible.
To get you started, I have collected more than 100 different Internet resources, all of them useful and interesting in their own way. So, whenever you get a moment and you want to investigate the Net, visit this theme area and try something new. The Internet is the largest gathering of people and information in the history of mankind.
Hint: There is more to the Internet than the Web. If you have been spending all your time clicking from one Web site to another, you are missing out on more than you can even imagine.

(For information on the Internet in general and how everything works, see my book Harley Hahn Teaches the Internet. For a great source of thousands of free Internet resources, see one of my other books, Harley Hahn's Internet & Web Yellow Pages.)