Like the Internet, the Internet expo at the Broward County Convention center this weekend contains some wired, wacky and wonderful stuff.

Among its offerings, Frank Rocco of Fort Lauderdale, who bills himself as an Internet hypnotherapist, puts people to sleep on the convention floor. Rocco claims to help people stop smoking, lose weight and reduce stress through his Internet site on the World Wide Web at (

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Want to know what the future holds? Numina Communications offers psychic readings to promote its new Internet Web site, which debuts later this month as psychicjourney.com. And the Christian Interactive Network booth offers a glimpse of live sermons on-line at ().

“Some people wouldn’t want to come face to face with a preacher but they would ask questions on the Internet,” said Neil Cox with the Christian Interactive Network.

The Internet & Computer Expo ’96 runs today through Sunday and costs $7.50. It is expected to attract 10,000 people, said Max Buck, senior vice president of I-Conference, the host of the show.

“People are afraid of being left out of the Internet age,” Buck said. “Most of them just want to know more about it and what it can do for them.”

Because of the popularity of the Internet, I-Conference plans to follow up the expo with a one-day cruise aboard the SS Scandinavian so people can literally surf the net. And it plans to hold Internet conferences at the convention center every six months, Buck said.

Some 85 organizations have booths at the expo including AT&T;, NetSpeak Corp., Nova Southeast University and Junior Achievement. The conference also offers hourly seminars on “How to do Business on the Internet” and “Hands-on Experience in Surfing the Net.”

“Everybody’s talking about the Internet,” said Ellie Kooby of Fort Lauderdale. She attended the convention to find out how to hook her Compaq Presario Pentium computer to the Internet through the library’s Freenet.

“Eventually I want to get on the Internet through an on-line service, but right now I’m just learning,” Kooby said.

At the CD ROM Playback booth, people snatched up CD-ROM software with titles like The Internet Experience for $10 and books like Setting Up an Internet Site for Dummies and Creating Web Pages for Dummies.

“We have seen customers from kids to 90 years old,” said Bob Provost, president of Comp-U-Choice, part owner of CD ROM Playback.

South Florida needs more Internet and computer conferences like the expo, said Joe Cossette, a software engineer from Fort Lauderdale. He attended the conference Friday and planned to return Saturday with some friends.

“I’m really glad to see stuff like this in town,” Cossette said. “The more exposure people get to the Internet, the better off everyone will be.”