Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything..., Texinfo Edition 2.2, February 1994

• GNU General Public License
• Preamble
• TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
• How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs
• G'day, folks!
• Welcome
• Foreword
• "Subject: A Superhighway through the Wasteland?"
• Preface
• Setting up and Jacking in
• Ready, Set...
• Go!
• Public-Access Internet Providers
• Alabama
• Alaska
• Alberta
• Arizona
• British Columbia
• California
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Illinois
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Ontario
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Quebec
• Rhode Island
• Texas
• Virginia
• Washington, DC
• Washington State
• United Kingdom
• If your Town doesn't have Direct Access
• Net Origins
• How it Works
• When things go wrong
• FYI:
• Electronic Mail
• The Basics
• ELM -- A better way
• PINE -- An even better way
• Smileys
• E-Mail to other Networks
• America Online
• ATTMail
• Bitnet
• CompuServe
• Delphi
• Fidonet
• GEnie
• MCIMail
• Peacenet
• Prodigy
• Seven UNIX Commands you can't live without:
• Wildcards
• When things go wrong:
• FYI:
• Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
• The Global Watering Hole
• Navigating Usenet with nn
• nn Commands
• Using rn
• rn Commands
• Essential Newsgroups
• Speaking up
• Cross-posting
• Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles
• Flame, Blather and Spew
• Killfiles -- The cure for all that ails you
• Some Usenet hints
• The Brain-tumor Boy and the Modem Tax an the Chain Letter
• Craig Shergold
• The Modem Tax
• The Chain Letter
• Big Sig
• The First Amendment as Local Ordinance
• Usenet History
• When things go wrong:
• FYI:
• Mailing Lists and Bitnet
• Internet Mailing Lists
• Bitnet Lists
• Telnet (Mining the Net, part I)
• Mining the Net
• Library Catalogs
• Some Interesting Telnet Sites
• Agriculture
• AIDS
• Amateur Radio
• Animals
• Calculators
• Chemistry
• 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
• Transportation
• Weather
• Telnet Bulletin-Board Systems
• Cimarron
• Cleveland Free-Net
• Dialog
• DUBBS
• ISCA BBS
• Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
• Youngstown Free-Net
• Putting the Finger on Someone
• Finding Someone on the Net
• When things go wrong:
• FYI:
• FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
• Tons of Files
• Your Friend Archie
• Getting the Files
• Odd Letters -- Decoding File Endings
• The Keyboard Cabal
• Some Interesting FTP Sites
• Amiga
• Atari
• Books
• Computer Ethics
• Consumer
• Cooking
• Economics
• Esperanto
• Evolutionary Computation
• FTP Addresses
• Government
• History
• Hong Kong
• Internet
• Law
• Libraries
• Literature
• Macintosh
• Movie Reviews
• MS-DOS
• Music
• Native Americans
• Pets
• Pictures
• Photography
• Religion
• Science Fiction
• Sex
• Shakespeare
• Space
• TeX
• TV
• Travel
• Usenet
• Viruses
• Weather
• X Windows
• ncftp -- Now You Tell Me!
• Project Gutenberg -- Electronic Books
• When things go wrong:
• FYI:
• Gophers, WAISs and the World-Wide Web
• Gophers
• Burrowing Deeper
• Gopher Commands
• Some Interesting Gophers
• Agriculture
• Amimals
• Architecture
• Art
• Astronomy
• Census
• Computers
• Disability
• Environment
• Entomology
• Geology
• Government
• Health
• History
• Internet
• Israel
• Japan
• Music
• Nature
• Sports
• Weather
• More Gophers
• Wide-Area Information Servers
• World-Wide Web
• Clients, or how to snare more on the Web
• When Things Go Wrong
• FYI:
• 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
• News of the World
• Clarinet: UPI, Dave Barry and Dilbert
• Reuters
• USA Today
• The World Today, from Belarus to Brazil
• E-Mailing News Organizations
• FYI:
• 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:
• Education and the Net
• The Net in the Classroom
• Some Specific Resources for Students and Teachers
• K12Net
• AskERIC
• SpaceMet
• Kidsphere
• Health-Ed:
• Knoxville News-Sentinel Online
• Hemingway
• MicroMUSE
• NASA Spacelink
• Newton
• OERI
• More Educational Resources
• Usenet and Bitnet in the Classroom
• FYI:
• Business on the Net
• Setting Up Shop
• 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: TIME article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
• "Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand
• The Lingo
• Dear Emily Postnews
• EFF Information
• General Information About the EFF
• 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
• The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
• Basic Smileys
• Widely used Smileys
• Midget Smileys
• Mega Smileys
• Usenet Smileys
• Emotional Smileys
• Paperware on the Net
• Hardcover & Softcover Publications
• Journal Articles and 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

• cyberculture