Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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About this eBook
- Author
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TK: Technology: Electrical, Electronics and Nuclear engineering
- Subject
- Computer networks
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 118
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/118
- Release Date
- March 1, 1994
- Copyright
- Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.
Contents
- 1.Chapter 1: SETTING UP AND JACKING IN
- 2.1.1 READY, SET … — 1.2 GO! — 1.3 PUBLIC-ACCESS INTERNET PROVIDERS — FLORIDA — NORTH CAROLINA — 1.4 IF YOUR TOWN HAS NO DIRECT ACCESS
- 3.1.5 NET ORIGINS — 1.6 HOW IT WORKS — 1.7 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG — 1.8 FYI — Chapter 2: E-MAIL
- 4.2.1 THE BASICS — 2.2 ELM — A BETTER WAY — 2.3 PINE — AN EVEN BETTER WAY — 2.4 SMILEYS — 2.5 SENDING E-MAIL TO OTHER NETWORKS — 2.6 SEVEN UNIX COMMANDS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT: — 2.7 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG — Chapter 3: USENET I
- 5.3.1 THE GLOBAL WATERING HOLE — 3.6 ESSENTIAL NEWSGROUPS — 3.7 SPEAKING UP — 3.8 CROSS-POSTING — Chapter 4: USENET II — 4.1 FLAME, BLATHER AND SPEW — 4.2 KILLFILES, THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS YOU — 4.3 SOME USENET HINTS — 4.4 THE BRAIN-TUMOR BOY, THE MODEM TAX AND THE CHAIN LETTER — 4.5 BIG SIG — 4.6 THE FIRST AMENDMENT AS LOCAL ORDINANCE — 4.7 USENET HISTORY — 4.8 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG — 4.9 FYI — Chapter 5: MAILING LISTS AND BITNET — 5.1 INTERNET MAILING LISTS — 5.2 BITNET — Chapter 6: TELNET
- 6.6.1 MINING THE NET — 6.2 LIBRARY CATALOGS — THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNION CATALOG — 6.3 SOME INTERESTING TELNET SITES — AGRICULTURE — AIDS — AMATEUR RADIO: — ANIMALS — CALCULATORS — READY FOR NEW COMMAND: — 6.4 TELNET BULLETIN-BOARD SYSTEMS — 6.5 PUTTING THE FINGER ON SOMEONE — 6.6 FINDING SOMEONE ON THE NET — 6.7 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG — 6.8 FYI — Chapter 7: FTP — 7.1 TONS OF FILES — 7.2 YOUR FRIEND ARCHIE — 7.3 GETTING THE FILES — 7.4 ODD LETTERS — DECODING FILE ENDINGS — 7.5 THE KEYBOARD CABAL — 7.6 SOME INTERESTING FTP SITES — 7.8 PROJECT GUTENBERG — ELECTRONIC BOOKS — 7.9 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG — 7.10 FYI — Chapter 8: GOPHERS, WAISs AND THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
- 7.8.1. GOPHERS — 8.2 BURROWING DEEPER — 8.3. GOPHER COMMANDS — AGRICULTURE — 8.5. WIDE-AREA INFORMATION SERVERS — 8.6 THE WORLD-WIDE WEB — 8.7. CLIENTS, OR HOW TO SNARE MORE ON THE WEB — 8.8. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG — 8.9 FYI — Chapter 9: ADVANCED E-MAIL — 9.1 THE FILE'S IN THE MAIL — 9.2 RECEIVING FILES — 9.3 FILES TO NON-INTERNET SITES — 9.4 GETTING FTP FILES VIA E-MAIL — 9.5 THE ALL KNOWING ORACLE — Chapter 10: NEWS OF THE WORLD — 10.2 REUTERS — 10.3 USA TODAY — 10.4 THE WORLD TODAY, FROM BELARUS TO BRAZIL — 10.5 E-MAILING NEWS ORGANIZATIONS — 10.6 FYI — Chapter 9: ADVANCED E-MAIL — 9.1 THE FILE'S IN THE MAIL — 9.2 RECEIVING FILES — 9.3 SENDING FILES TO NON-INTERNET SITES — 9.4 GETTING FTP FILES VIA E-MAIL — 9.5 THE ALL KNOWING ORACLE — Chapter 10: NEWS OF THE WORLD — 10.2 REUTERS — 10.3 USA TODAY — 10.6 E-MAILING NEWS ORGANIZATIONS — Chapter 11: IRC, MUDs AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE MORE FUN THAN THEY SOUND — 11.1 TALK — 11.2 INTERNET RELAY CHAT — 11.3 IRC COMMANDS — 11.4 IRC IN TIMES OF CRISIS — 11.6 GO, GO, GO (AND CHESS, TOO)! — 11.7 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN — 11.8 FYI — Chapter 12: EDUCATION AND THE NET
- 8.12.1 THE NET IN THE CLASSROOM — 12.3 USENET AND BITNET IN THE CLASSROOM — CHAPTER 13: Business on the Net — 13.1 SETTING UP SHOP — 13.2 FYI — Chapter 14: CONCLUSION — THE END?
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