Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything..., Texinfo Edition 1.02, September 1993

• 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