EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything...

Texinfo Edition 2.3, September 1994

EFF's Guide to the Internet License

Introduction

• G'day, folks!
• Welcome
• Foreword
• Subject: "A Superhighway through the Wasteland?"
• Preface

Walk Through the Internet

1. Setting up and Jacking in
   • Ready, Set...
   • Go!
   • Public-Access Internet Providers
   • If your Town doesn't have Direct Access
   • Net Origins
   • How it Works
   • When things go wrong
   • FYI:
2. Electronic Mail
   • The Basics
   • ELM -- A better way
   • PINE -- An even better way
   • Smileys
   • E-Mail to other Networks
   • Seven UNIX Commands you can't live without:
   • When things go wrong:
   • FYI:
3. 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
4. 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
   • Big Sig
   • The First Amendment as Local Ordinance
   • Usenet History
   • When things go wrong:
   • FYI:
5. Mailing Lists and Bitnet
   • Internet Mailing Lists
   • Bitnet Lists
6. Telnet (Mining the Net, part I)
   • Mining the Net
   • Library Catalogs
   • Some Interesting Telnet Sites
   • Telnet Bulletin-Board Systems
   • Putting the Finger on Someone
   • Finding Someone on the Net
   • When things go wrong:
   • FYI:
7. 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
   • ncftp -- Now You Tell Me!
   • Project Gutenberg -- Electronic Books
   • When things go wrong:
   • FYI:
8. Gophers, WAISs and the World-Wide Web
   • Gophers
   • Burrowing Deeper
   • Gopher Commands
   • Some Interesting Gophers
   • Wide-Area Information Servers
   • World-Wide Web
   • Clients, or how to snare more on the Web
   • When Things Go Wrong
   • FYI:
9. 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
10. 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:
11. 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:
12. Education and the Net
    • The Net in the Classroom
    • Some Specific Resources for Students and Teachers
    • Usenet and Bitnet in the Classroom
    • FYI:
13. Business on the Net
    • Setting Up Shop
    • FYI

Conclusion & Afterwords

• "Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin
• "A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold
• "A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling
• "Preserving and Promoting the Internet Culture" by Peter Deutsch
• Subject: "TIME Article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
• Subject: "A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand

Appendices

• The Lingo
• Dear Emily Postnews
• EFF Information
• Internet Connectivity
• The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
• Paperware on the Net
• E-mail Addresses
• Internet Sites
• Commands, Suffixes & Tools
• General Index

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