Zen and the Art of the Internet

A Beginner's Guide to the Internet, First Edition, January 1992

The fourth edition is currently being published by Prentice Hall

• Preface
• Acknowledgements

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• Network Basics
• Domains
• Internet Numbers
• Resolving Names and Numbers
• The Networks
• The Physical Connection
• Electronic Mail
• Email Addresses
• %@!.: Symbolic Cacophony
• Sending and Receiving Mail
• Anatomy of a Mail Header
• Bounced Mail
• Mailing Lists
• Listservs
• Anonymous FTP
• FTP Etiquette
• Basic Commands
• Creating the Connection
• dir
• cd
• get and put
• ASCII vs Binary
• mget and mput
• The archie Server
• Using archie Today
• archie Clients
• Mailing archie
• The whatis database
• Usenet News
• What Usenet Is
• The Diversity of Usenet
• What Usenet Is Not
• Propagation of News
• Group Creation
• If You're Unhappy...
• The History of Usenet (The ABCs)
• Hierarchies
• Moderated vs Unmoderated
• news.groups & news.announce.newgroups
• How Usenet Works
• Mail Gateways
• Usenet "Netiquette"
• Signatures
• Posting Personal Messages
• Posting Mail
• Test Messages
• Famous People Appearing
• Summaries
• Quoting
• Crossposting
• Recent News
• Quality of Postings
• Useful Subjects
• Tone of Voice
• Computer Religion
• Frequently Asked Questions
• The Pit-Manager Archive
• Telnet
• Using Telnet
• Telnet Ports
• Publicly Accessible Libraries
• The Cleveland Freenet
• Directories
• Knowbot
• White Pages
• Databases
• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL)
• PENpages
• Clemson Univ. Forestry & Agricultural Network
• University of Maryland Info Database
• University of Michigan Weather Underground
• Geographic Name Server
• FEDIX--Minority Scholarship Information
• Science & Technology Information System
• Ocean Network Information Center
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
• U.S. Naval Observatory Automated Data Service
• Various Tools
• Finger
• Ping
• Talk
• The WHOIS Database
• Other Uses of WHOIS
• Commercial Services
• Electronic Journals
• Commercial Databases
• Clarinet News
• Things You'll Hear About
• The Internet Worm
• The Cuckoo's Egg
• Organizations
• The Association for Computing Machinery
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The Free Software Foundation
• The League for Programming Freedom
• Networking Initiatives
• NREN
• Finding Out More
• Internet Resource Guide
• Requests for Comments

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• Conclusion
• Getting to Other Networks
• Retrieving Files via Email
• Archive Servers
• FTP-by-Mail Servers
• Newsgroup Creation
• Discussion
• Voting
• The Result of a Vote
• Creation of the Group
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Books
• Periodicals & Papers
• Index

• cyberculture