Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
by Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Chapters (109)
- Chapter 1: SETTING UP AND JACKING IN
- 1.1 READY, SET …
- 1.2 GO!
- 1.3 PUBLIC-ACCESS INTERNET PROVIDERS
- FLORIDA
- NORTH CAROLINA
- 1.4 IF YOUR TOWN HAS NO DIRECT ACCESS
- 1.5 NET ORIGINS
- 1.6 HOW IT WORKS
- 1.7 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
- 1.8 FYI
- Chapter 2: E-MAIL
- 2.1 THE BASICS
- 2.2 ELM — A BETTER WAY
- 2.3 PINE — AN EVEN BETTER WAY
- 2.4 SMILEYS
- 2.5 SENDING E-MAIL TO OTHER NETWORKS
- 2.6 SEVEN UNIX COMMANDS YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT:
- 2.7 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
- Chapter 3: USENET I
- 3.1 THE GLOBAL WATERING HOLE
- 3.6 ESSENTIAL NEWSGROUPS
- 3.7 SPEAKING UP
- 3.8 CROSS-POSTING
- Chapter 4: USENET II
- 4.1 FLAME, BLATHER AND SPEW
- 4.2 KILLFILES, THE CURE FOR WHAT AILS YOU
- 4.3 SOME USENET HINTS
- 4.4 THE BRAIN-TUMOR BOY, THE MODEM TAX AND THE CHAIN LETTER
- 4.5 BIG SIG
- 4.6 THE FIRST AMENDMENT AS LOCAL ORDINANCE
- 4.7 USENET HISTORY
- 4.8 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
- 4.9 FYI
- Chapter 5: MAILING LISTS AND BITNET
- 5.1 INTERNET MAILING LISTS
- 5.2 BITNET
- Chapter 6: TELNET
- 6.1 MINING THE NET
- 6.2 LIBRARY CATALOGS
- THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UNION CATALOG
- 6.3 SOME INTERESTING TELNET SITES AGRICULTURE
- AIDS
- AMATEUR RADIO:
- ANIMALS
- CALCULATORS
- READY FOR NEW COMMAND:
- 6.4 TELNET BULLETIN-BOARD SYSTEMS
- 6.5 PUTTING THE FINGER ON SOMEONE
- 6.6 FINDING SOMEONE ON THE NET
- 6.7 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
- 6.8 FYI
- Chapter 7: FTP
- 7.1 TONS OF FILES
- 7.2 YOUR FRIEND ARCHIE
- 7.3 GETTING THE FILES
- 7.4 ODD LETTERS — DECODING FILE ENDINGS
- 7.5 THE KEYBOARD CABAL
- 7.6 SOME INTERESTING FTP SITES
- 7.8 PROJECT GUTENBERG — ELECTRONIC BOOKS
- 7.9 WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
- 7.10 FYI
- Chapter 8: GOPHERS, WAISs AND THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
- 8.1. GOPHERS
- 8.2 BURROWING DEEPER
- 8.3. GOPHER COMMANDS
- AGRICULTURE
- 8.5. WIDE-AREA INFORMATION SERVERS
- 8.6 THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
- 8.7. CLIENTS, OR HOW TO SNARE MORE ON THE WEB
- 8.8. WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
- 8.9 FYI
- Chapter 9: ADVANCED E-MAIL
- 9.1 THE FILE'S IN THE MAIL
- 9.2 RECEIVING FILES
- 9.3 FILES TO NON-INTERNET SITES
- 9.4 GETTING FTP FILES VIA E-MAIL
- 9.5 THE ALL KNOWING ORACLE
- Chapter 10: NEWS OF THE WORLD
- 10.2 REUTERS
- 10.3 USA TODAY
- 10.4 THE WORLD TODAY, FROM BELARUS TO BRAZIL
- 10.5 E-MAILING NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
- 10.6 FYI
- Chapter 9: ADVANCED E-MAIL
- 9.1 THE FILE'S IN THE MAIL
- 9.2 RECEIVING FILES
- 9.3 SENDING FILES TO NON-INTERNET SITES
- 9.4 GETTING FTP FILES VIA E-MAIL
- 9.5 THE ALL KNOWING ORACLE
- Chapter 10: NEWS OF THE WORLD
- 10.2 REUTERS
- 10.3 USA TODAY
- 10.6 E-MAILING NEWS ORGANIZATIONS
- Chapter 11: IRC, MUDs AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE MORE FUN THAN THEY SOUND
- 11.1 TALK
- 11.2 INTERNET RELAY CHAT
- 11.3 IRC COMMANDS
- 11.4 IRC IN TIMES OF CRISIS
- 11.6 GO, GO, GO (AND CHESS, TOO)!
- 11.7 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
- 11.8 FYI
- Chapter 12: EDUCATION AND THE NET
- 12.1 THE NET IN THE CLASSROOM
- 12.3 USENET AND BITNET IN THE CLASSROOM
- CHAPTER 13: Business on the Net
- 13.1 SETTING UP SHOP
- 13.2 FYI
- Chapter 14: CONCLUSION — THE END?
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