Exploring the Internet

Information on a range of topics such as Usenet, FTP, Gophers, Email, Listservs, IRC, WAIS, the Web,...

Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet

A collection of form-fed search engines that provides wormhole access to numerous major sites. Also contains links to handy sites all over the Internet.

FAQ on FAQs [Part 2 of 2 parts]

FAQ on FAQs [Part 2 of 2 parts]. This is a continuation of Part 1. 3) POSTING A FAQ 3.1) How do I post/distribute my FAQ? 3.2) Where do I post/distribute my ...

World Wide Web (WWW)

What is WORLD-WIDE WEB? World-Wide Web (also called WWW or W3) is a hypertext-based information system. Any word in a hypertext document can be specified as ...

Veronica FAQ (Part 2 of 2)

HOW TO COMPOSE VERONICA QUERIES. - June 23, 1994: Steven Foster. This document is an introduction to using veronica. ...

FAQ on FAQs [Part 1 of 2 parts]

Path: news.compuserve.com!news.compuserve.com!news.inhouse.compuserve.com!news. web.compuserve.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow. ...

Official Netscape Color Table & Guide

Official Netscape Color Table & Guide. These are the names of all of the Netscape colors used in COLOR, BGCOLOR, TEXT, LINK, ALINK, and VLINK commands. ...

Email FAQ

Introduction. A question which appears frequently on the USENET is, "I know someone's name, and I think they might have an electronic mail address somewhere ...

Veronica FAQ

Common questions and answers about veronica, a title search and retrieval system for use with the...

Jarmo's Solar Calculator

Photoperiod Calculator (author: J. Lammi © 1996-1999) V 0.66 Last modified Tuesday January 26 21:41:13 EET 1999 Scout Report for Science and Engineering ...

Standardized Flame Form

Standardized Flame Form. It is really never proper Netiquette to flame someone. But if you must flame, and sometimes it seems that you must, ...

Knowbot FAQ

TELNET SITE NAME: Knowbot Information Service. INTERNET ADDRESSES: nri.reston.va.us 185 132.151.1.1 185 sol.bucknell.edu 185 134.82.1.8 185 DESCRIPTION: ...

Special Symbol Character Codes for HTML

Œ œ Ÿ, • … ′ ″ ‾ ⁄ ℘ ℑ ℜ ™ ℵ ← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↵ ...

Greek and Other Special Character Codes for HTML

Greek Character Codes for HTML The column to the right is the phrase that you need to paste (adjust width of table if columns are not aligned). ...

Greek and Other Special Character Codes for HTML

Greek Character Codes for HTML The column to the right is the phrase that you need to paste (adjust width of table if columns are not aligned) ...

Virus Hoaxes

VIRUS HOAXES. This is part of an email message that I sent in response to a virus hoax .... Yes, the famous 'Good TImes' virus. ...

WAIS

WAIS, Wide Area Information Server, are databases containing mostly text-based documents, (although WAIS documents may contain sound, pictures or video as ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Appendices

Inter-connectivity has been and always will be one of the biggest goals in computer networking. The ultimate desire is to make it so one person can contact ...

Bogus Newsgroups

Path: news.compuserve.com!news.compuserve.com!news.inhouse.compuserve.com!news. web.compuserve.com!uunet!bounce-back From: newgroups-request@uunet.uu.net ...

Usenet FAQ - An Overview of Newsgroups

Path: news.compuserve.com!news.compuserve.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news. mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!deshaw.com!do-not-use-path-to ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 4 [part 2 of 2]

4.13 Usenet "Netiquette". There are many traditions with Usenet, not the least of which is dubbed netiquette--being polite and considerate of others. ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 5

Telnet is the main Internet protocol for creating a connection with a remote machine. It gives the user the opportunity to be on one computer system and do ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 2

The desire to communicate is the essence of networking. People have always wanted to correspond with each other in the fastest way possible, short of normal ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 8

There are certain things that you'll hear about shortly after you start actively using the Internet. Most people assume that everyone's familiar with them, ...

Finding Newsgroups and Anonymous FTP Procedures

Path: news.compuserve.com!news.compuserve.com!news.inhouse.compuserve.com!news. web.compuserve.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci. ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 9

9.1 Internet Resource Guide. The NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) compiles and makes available an Internet Resource Guide (IRG). ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 3

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the primary method of transferring files over the Internet. On many systems, it's also the name of the program that ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 6

New and interesting ways to use the Internet are being dreamed up every day. As they gain wide-spread use, some methods become near-standard (or actual ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Glossary

This glossary is only a tiny subset of all of the various terms and other things that people regularly use on The Net. For a more complete (and very ...

Naming New Newsgroups - A Proposed FAQ

Path: news.compuserve.com!news.compuserve.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news. pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!deshaw.com!do-not-use-path-to-reply Date: Tue, ...

USENET - An Overview

Some General Information on Usenet Resources:. Usenet FAQ - An Overview of Newsgroups - A nice primer; Finding Newsgroups and Anonymous FTP Procedures ...

Usenet and Usenet Software FAQ

Path: news.compuserve.com!news.compuserve.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news. pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!deshaw.com!do-not-use-path-to-reply ...

Usenet and Usenet Software FAQ [2 of 2 parts]

Software versions & availability. You can obtain the version number of your news software by issuing some form of "v" command to show the current version ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Bibliography

What follows is a compendium of sources that have information that will be of use to anyone reading this guide. Most of them were used in the writing of the ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 7

Many services can be accessed through the Internet. As time progresses and more outlets for commercial activity appear, once-restricted traffic (by the ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet-Chap 1

We are truly in an information society. Now more than ever, moving vast amounts of information quickly across great distances is one of our most pressing ...

Viruses by E-mail

THE SAFEST POLICIES TO FOLLOW:. Use an anti-virus program with up-to-date virus data. Auto-updating software is very useful. Keep subscriptions up-to-date. ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Chapter 4 [part 1 of 2]

The first thing to understand about Usenet is that it is widely misunderstood. Every day on Usenet the "blind men and the elephant" phenomenon appears, ...

Zen And The Art Of The Internet-Preface

-(Entire Document 06/17/92). Please note: This document has been converted from postscript to ASCII so that it may be viewed on-line in INFORMU. ...

Listserv FAQ

Listserv FAQ. Revised LISTSERV System Reference Library, release 1.7f ------------------------------------------------------- (c) Eric Thomas 1986,1987,1988 ...

Zen And The Art Of The Internet

Table of Contents. Read this · Preface · Acknowledgements · 1 Network Basics · 1.1 Domains · 1.2 Internet Numbers · 1.3 Resolving Names and Numbers ...

Zen and the Art of the Internet - Conclusions

This guide is far from complete--the Internet changes on a daily (if not hourly) basis. However, this booklet should provide enough information to make the ...

Archie FAQ

Archie FAQ. ARCHIE What is ARCHIE Archie is a service which helps users to locate files and direc- tories on anonymous FTP servers anywhere on the Internet. ...

Special Character Codes for HTML

Special Character Codes for HTML (left of the '=' sign is the phrase that you need to paste). À = À Á = Á Â = Â Ã = Ã Ä = Ä ...