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About the Book

If you have access to a personal computer and want to explore the Internet, then "Everybody's Guide to the Internet" is the place to begin. This guide is designed to make you comfortable in the virtual world of the Internet with its insider language and peculiar local culture. Accessible, friendly, and authoritative, it offers a clear, bare-bones introduction to the Internet, with just enough technical information to get you online. Additional help is offered at the end of each chapter in the form of a section on what to do "when things go wrong," and another section, called "FYI," tells you where to look for further information. It covers everything you need to know about the rich and complex Internet environment: e-mail (including advanced e-mail); the "global watering hole" called Usenet and its essential newsgroups; mailing lists and bitnet; library catalogues, bulletin board systems, and sites on telnet; downloading files via ftp; information utilities such as gopher, archie, WAIS and the World-Wide Web; information services such the WELL, America Online and Compuserve; news services; IRC and MUDS; and the network in the classroom.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Setting up and jacking in: ready, set...; go!; public-access internet providers; if your town has no direct access; net origins; how it works; when things go wrong; FYI. Part 2 E-mail: the basics; Elm - a better way; Pine - an even better way; Smileys; sending E-mail to other networks; seven Unix commands you can't live without; when things go wrong. Part 3 Usenet I: the global watering hole; navigating Usenet with nn; nn commands; using rn; rn commands; essential newsgroups; speaking up; cross-posting. Part 4 Usenet II: flame, blather, and spew; killfiles, the cure for what ails you; some usenet hints; the brain tumour boy, the modem tax, and the chain letter; big sig; the First Amendment as local ordinance; usenet history; when things go wrong; FYI. Part 5 Mailing list and bitnet: internet mailing lists; bitnet. Part 6 Telnet: mining the net; library catalogues; some interesting Telnet sites; Telnet bulletin board systems; putting the finger on someone; finding someone on the net; when things go wrong; FYI. Part 7 FTP: tons of files; your friend Archie; getting the files; odd letters - decoding file endings; the keyboard cabal; some interesting FTP sites; ncftp - now you tell me!; project Gutenberg - electronic books; when things go wrong; FYI. Part 8 WAISs, and the world-wide web: gophers; burrowing deeper; gopher commands; some interesting gophers; wide-area information servers; the world-wide web; clients, or how to snare more on the web; when things go wrong; FYI. Part 9 Advanced E-mail: the file's in the mail; receiving files; sending files to non-Internet sites; getting FTP files via E-mail; the all-knowing Oracle. Part 10 News of the world: clarinet - AP, Dave Barry, and Dilbert; Reuters; USA Today; National Public Radio; the world today, from Belarus to Brazil; E-mailing news organizations; FYI. Part 11 IRC MUDs, and other things that are more fun than they sound: talk; Internet relay chat; IRC commands; IRC in times of crisis; MUDs; go, go, go (and chess, too)!; the other side of the coin; FYI. Part 12 Education and the Net: the Net in the classroom; some specific resources for students and teachers; Usenet and Bitnet in the classroom. Part 13 Business on the net: setting up shop; FYI. Part 14 Conclusion: the end?. Appendices: The lingo; Electronic Frontier Foundation Information.

About the Author :
Adam Gaffin is the creator and editor of Boston Online, an award-winning Web site dedicated to everything Boston.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262571050
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 226
  • Weight: 558 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262571056
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jul 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: MIT Press
  • Width: 152 mm


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