Joe mentions making the connection through an online service. But before you take that step, check to see if you already have an Internet connection. Not necessarily, Krol points out. If your company has an Internet connection, and you have a computer in your office, getting on the Net should be simple. In short, you can be on one computer and do work on another computer across the street or across the country.
Many people think so.
But in reality, it isn't. Krol goes on to note that users not connected through a business or university often pay a monthly or hourly fee for Internet access from home. When I access the Internet through America Online, I receive an on-screen warning that I will be charged for my connection. But there is such a wide variety of information available via the Internet that it would be hard to find a person who didn't find anything of interest on the Net. There are now well over a billion bytes of raw information available for public consumption on the Internet.