Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything..., Texinfo Edition 1.02, September 1993
by Adam Gaffin with
Jörg Heitkötter
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Preamble
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
Welcome
Forward
Preface
First links
How it works
Acknowledgments
FYI:
Setting up, Getting connected, Jacking in...
Setting up
Jacking in
Dialing in
Public-Access Internet Sites
Alberta
California
Colorado
Illinois
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Ontario
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Quebec
Rhode Island
Virginia
Washington, DC
Washington State
Any Alternatives?
Things that can go wrong:
FYI:
Electronic Mail
ELM
PINE
Smileys
Seven UNIX Commands you can't live without:
Wildcards
E-Mail to other Networks
America Online
ATTMail
Bitnet
CompuServe
Delphi
Fidonet
GEnie
MCIMail
Peacenet
Prodigy
When things go wrong:
FYI:
Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
Newsgroup Hierarchies
Where to get Answers?
Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles
Flame, Blather and Spew, and the First Amendment
The First Amendment as Local Ordinance
rn Commands
nn Commands
Some Usenet hints
Cross-posting
The Brain-tumor Boy and the Modem Tax
Craig Shergold
The Modem Tax
Big Sig
Killfiles
Usenet History
When things go wrong:
FYI:
Mailing Lists and Bitnet
Bitnet
Telnet (Mining the Net, part I)
Library Catalogs
Telnet Sites
Agriculture
AIDS
Amateur Radio
Animals
Art
Calculators
Congress
Conversation
Copyright Law
Current Events
Dictionary
Environment
Geography
Government
Health
Hiring and College Program Information
History
Quotations
Religion
Ski Reports
Space
Supreme Court Decisions
Telnet Addresses
Thesaurus
Time
Weather
Telnet BBSs
Cimarron
Cleveland Free-Net
Dialog
DUBBS
ISCA BBS
Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
Youngstown Free-Net
Finger
Finding Someone on the Net
When things go wrong:
FYI:
FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
The Keyboard Cabal
FTP Sites
Amiga
Atari
Books
Computer Ethics
Consumer
Cooking
Esperanto
Evolutionary Computation
FTP Addresses
Government
History
Hong Kong
Internet
Law
Libraries
Literature
Macintosh
Movie Reviews
MS-DOS
Music
Pets
Pictures
Photography
Religion
Sex
Science Fiction
Shakespeare
Space
Spain
TeX
TV
Travel
Usenet
Viruses
Weather
X Windows
When things go wrong:
FYI:
Gophers, WAISs and the World-Wide Web
Veronica
Wide-Area Information Servers
World-Wide Web
Clients
FYI:
Advanced E-mail
Sending your own files through the mail
News of the World
USA Today
The World Today
FYI:
IRC, MUDs and other things that are more fun than they sound
Talk
Internet Relay Chat
IRC Commands
MUDs
The other Side of the Coin
FYI:
Education and the Net
K12Net
SpaceMet
Kidsphere
Health-Ed:
Hemingway
NASA Spacelink
Newton
Educational FTP sites
More Educational Resources on the Net
FYI:
"Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin
"A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold
A Cybernaut's Eye View
Social Contracts, Reciprocity, and Gift Economies in Cyberspace
Who Is The WELL?
My Neighborhood On The WELL
FYI:
"A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling
FYI:
"Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand
Lingo
Dear Emily Postnews
EFF Information
General Information About the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Information Infrastructure
Civil Liberties
Legal Services
Community Building
How to connect to EFF?
Internet and USENET
The WELL
CompuServe
America Online
Membership in the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Internet Country Codes
Description of codes
Networks which are not included
Updates
.us sites
.edu, .com, etc.
UK and GB domains
Main nameservers
Archiving
ISO 3166 Codes & Top level domains
Disclaimer
Paperware on the Net
Hardcover & Softcover Publications
Journals & Papers
Cyberspace-related News bits
Electronically published Texts
FYI:
Snail Mail Addresses
E-Mail and List server Addresses
FTP'able & Gopher'able Addresses
E-mail Addresses
Internet Sites
Commands, Suffixes & Tools
General Index