home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- "WHERE TO START" FOR NEW INTERNET USERS
- Jim Milles
- Ver. 1.2
- 2/10/93
-
-
- 1. E-mail systems vary widely. For help with most e-mail
- questions (signature files, quoting, and so on), contact your
- local computer support personnel or your Internet service
- provider.
-
-
- 2. Some recommended books for new users of the Internet:
-
- LaQuey, Tracy. _The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide
- to Global Networking_. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.
- (Read this first; the best guide for the true beginner,
- useful even for the pre-beginner who has not yet signed on
- to the Internet.)
-
- Krol, Ed. _The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog_.
- Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1992. (Read this
- after LaQuey; much more in-depth and comprehensive, at this
- writing Krol is *the* essential guide to the Internet.)
-
- Tennant, Roy, John Ober, & Anne G. Lipow. _Crossing the
- Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook_. Berkeley, CA:
- Library Solutions Press, 1993. (Includes helpful fact sheets
- on various Internet tools from ftp and telnet to archie,
- gopher, WAIS, and World-Wide Web.)
-
- Kehoe, Brendan. _Zen and the Art of the Internet: A
- Beginner's Guide_. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
- Hall, 1993. (One of the first and most popular guides to the
- Internet. The first edition was distributed for free on the
- Internet, and is still available at many anonymous ftp sites,
- e.g. nic.merit.edu, directory /introducing.the.internet,
- filename zen.txt.)
-
- Quarterman, John S. _The Matrix: Computer Networks and
- Conferencing Systems Worldwide_. Bedford, MA: Digital Press,
- 1990. (A comprehensive guide to the history and present--
- as of 1990--state of the Internet and its component and
- related networks. Recommended for those who want to learn
- the background and history of the Internet.)
-
-
- 3. For those who know enough about using the Internet to be able
- to use "ftp," the following sources are very useful (note
- that they are regularly updated, so the version numbers and
- file names may change):
-
- Martin, Jerry. "There's Gold in them thar Networks! or
- Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places." RFC 1402,
- January 1993. Available via anonymous ftp from nic.merit.edu,
- directory /introducing.the.internet, filename network.gold.
-
- "NYSERNet New User's Guide to Useful and Unique Resources on
- the Internet." Version 2.2, April 1992. Available via
- anonymous ftp from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides,
- filename new.user.guide.V2.2.txt
-
- Polly, Jean Armour. "Surfing the INTERNET: An Introduction."
- Version 2.0.2, December 16, 1992. Available via anonymous ftp
- from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides, file
- surfing.2.0.2.txt.
-
- "SURAnet Guide to Selected Internet Resources." January
- 1993. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp.sura.net,
- directory /pub/nic, file infoguide.1-93.txt.
-
- Yanoff, Scott. "Special Internet Connections" (updated
- frequently). A list of interesting and useful selection
- showing the broad range of Internet resources, including a
- few Online Public Access Catalogs, chat lines, weather
- servers, Campus Wide Information Systems, and other reference
- resources. Available via anonymous ftp from
- csd4.csd.uwm.edu, directory /pub, filename inet.services.txt.
-
-
- Jim Milles (listowner/moderator, NETTRAIN) Fax: (314) 658-3966
- Head of Computer Services Phone: (314) 658-2759
- Saint Louis University Law Library millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu
- .
-