Mr. Modem
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Richard Sherman (“Mr. Modem”) is an author, syndicated columnist and publisher.
President of Get-the-Net, Inc., Sherman is the creator and publisher of the popular, online computer and Internet help service and weekly subscription newsletter Ask Mr. Modem.
As a member of the National Speakers Association, he has presented more than 500 Bringing Cyberspace Down to Earth seminars and keynote addresses. He has appeared on approximately 500 radio and TV talk shows, and served as host of the Mr. Modem Minute segments produced by FOX-TV. In addition, he co-hosts the weekly Gutsy Geeks radio show.
A nationally syndicated columnist, his Ask Mr. Modem! column appears in more than 140 publications throughout the U.S. and Canada. As publisher of the Ask Mr. Modem weekly newsletter, his vast knowledge of the Internet and computers, coupled with his unique sense of humor, help provide easy-to-understand, non-technical, computer and Internet answers to questions received from subscribers in more than 30 countries.
As "Mr. Modem," Sherman is a featured columnist in Smart Computing magazine and the financial publication, Making Bread magazine. His Mr. Modem's Desktop column provides readers with geekspeak-free computer and Internet tips, Web site profiles, virus and hoax alerts, news and related information.
Among his eight books are Ask Mr. Modem!, a collection of answers to hundreds of frequently asked computer and Internet questions, and Mr. Modem’s Internet Guide for Seniors, named “Internet Book of the Year” by the Independent Publishers Association. His latest release is Mr. Modem’s Web, a CD-ROM featuring entertaining and informative profiles of more than 1400 of Mr. Modem’s favorite Web sites. Mr. Modem has been heralded by ABC Radio personality Paul Harvey as “the man who takes the gobbledygook out of computers.”
An Internet pioneer, Sherman first ventured onto the Internet in 1988, and as “Mr. Modem,” has been providing an online helping hand to millions of computer users worldwide ever since.
