Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Newsgroups, and Everything..., Texinfo Edition 1.00, @value{update-month}

• GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
  • Preamble
  • 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:
• Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
• 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
    • Thesaurus
    • Time
    • Weather
  • Telnet BBSs
    • Cimarron
    • Cleveland Free-Net
    • Dialog
    • DUBBS
    • ISCA BBS
    • Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
    • Youngstown Free-Net
  • Finger
  • When things go wrong:
  • Finding Someone on the Net
  • FYI:
• FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
  • The Keyboard Cabal
  • FTP Sites
    • Amiga
    • Atari
    • Books
    • Computer Ethics
    • Consumer
    • Cooking
    • Esperanto
    • Evolutionary Computation
    • FTP
    • Government
    • History
    • Hong Kong
    • Internet
    • Law
    • Libraries
    • Literature
    • Macintosh
    • Movie Reviews
    • MS-DOS
    • Music
    • Pets
    • Pictures
    • Photography
    • Religion
    • Sex
    • Science Fiction
    • Shakespeare
    • Space
    • Spain
    • TV
    • Travel
    • Usenet
    • Viruses
    • Weather
  • When things go wrong:
  • FYI:
• Gophers, WAISs and the World-Wide Web
  • 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
  • MUDs
  • The other Side of the Coin
  • IRC Commands
  • FYI:
• Education and the Net
  • K12Net
  • SpaceMet
  • Kidsphere
  • Health-Ed:
  • Hemingway
  • NASA Spacelink
  • Newton
  • FTP
  • More Educational Resources on the Net
  • FYI:
• Conclusion: the End?
• ``A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community'' by Howard Rheingold
  • My Virtual Community
  • 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:
• Paperware
  • Books
  • Periodicals & Papers
• Lingo
• Dear Emily Postnews
• EFF Information
• E-mail Addresses
• Internet Sites
• Commands, Suffixes & Tools
• General Index