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                          EVERYBODY'S INTERNET UPDATE
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                              Number 4 - July, 1994
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         An online publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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CONTENTS:

1.  Touring the USA in your Virtual Chevrolet
     1.1 On the road
     1.2 FYI
2. Public-access Internet sites
3. Errata/Updates
4. Contact info

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1. TOURING THE USA IN YOUR VIRTUAL CHEVROLET

It's July in Boston, it's hot, it's muggy and my brain is fried.  So no
lessons this month, class.  Instead, let's hop in the car, crank up the
A/C. and go on a road trip!  Oh, darn, the car's in the shop (that
alternator again)!  Well, fortunately, this is 1994, and we don't even
have to leave our den.  Pull up your keyboard, dial into your local public-
access site and let's see what this baby can do.

First, we have to figure out where to go and what to do. Let's head over
to the wiretap.spies.com Gopher site to pick up a copy of Hans L'Orange's
"Tourist Traps in the U.S." It's a guide to all the attractions that make
us great, the stuff you just stare at and go "Hey, Martha, lookit that!"
like the world's largest ball of twine and the world's second largest coal
strip-mining shovel. Once you connect, select Online Library, Articles,
Journeys and Travels and then "Tourist Traps in the U.S."

It must be great to be Mike Wilkins, Ken Smith and Doug Kirby. They
actually make a living writing about how they drive around the country
looking for such marvels. Now the authors of "Roadside America" are back on
the road again, on "Hypertour '94". You can follow their paeans to
monuments honoring people who thought the earth was hollow and the like
over the Net, thanks to Wired magazine. Point your World-Wide Web browser
at http://wired.com/Hotwired/roadside/index.html. And don't forget to pick
up your free souvenir pennant.

"Travels with Samantha" is the story of a man, his Powerbook and his journey
across North America. Let's pick up Philip Greenspan's classic of online
travel, too, via WWW as
http://martigny.ai.mit.edu/samantha/travels-with-samantha.html

All abooooard! Car sick?  How about taking a train ride? Look up Amtrak
train schedules via Gopher at gwis.circ.gwu.edu. From the main menu,
select General, then Information, then Train Schedules.

Or if you'd rather get there (wherever it is) quickly, look up toll-free
numbers for airlines via Gopher at cs4sun.cs.ttu.edu. From the main menu,
select Reference Shelf, then Airlines, then Toll-free Numbers.

Get your kicks on Route 66 (by way of Belgium). Point your Web browser at
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~swa/route66/main.html

>From Antigonish (Nova Scotia) to Vancouver, head north and Tour Canada
Without Leaving Your Desk by pointing your WWW browser at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/Canadiana/
Travelogue.html

Finally, we should probably check the weather before we head out.  So
we'll use Gopher to connect to wx.atmos.uiuc.edu and from the main menu,
select either States for U.S. weather reports and maps, or Canada, for the
Canadian counterparts.

NOW ONTO THE OPEN ROAD (And Billy, stop hitting your sister, I don't care
if she started it)!

ALASKA

The University of Alaska maintains a number of Alaska-related
resources on its Gopher, from information about native birds to
probably more than you want to know about "Northern Exposure." Connect
to info.alaska.edu and from the main menu, select Information about
Alaska.

ARIZONA

It's back to wiretap.spies.com, this time for Mark Leeper's epic
Arizona and New Mexico Travelogue, which, as you might guess, is a
detailed chronicle of his travels through the two southwestern states.

For more current information, check out RDT Systems and Network's
Virtual Tourist Project, which has information on everything from
interesting sites to shopping in Phoenix. Special emphasis is given to
tourist attractions in the state's largest cities, i.e., Phoenix,
Tucson and Flagstaff, with Yuma information promised in the future. Point
your Web browser at http://www.rtd.com/arizona/textlist.html

Arne Henden's Grand Canyon Guide will tell you what you need to know
to plan a trip there. You can get it via anonymous ftp at
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca as
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/arizona/grand_canyon.henden

CALIFORNIA

The Virtual Tourist-California is your basic tourist-info center just
over the state line on the Information Highway. You can find traffic
and road-condition reports, maps, pictures of lighthouses, lists of
things to do and places to go and one-stop clicking to a variety of
California museums. Set your Web browser to
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual-tourist/California.html

Surf's up, dudes! SurfNet maintains information about surfing
worldwide, but it's fitting that it's based in, and centered on,
southern California. You'll find everything from classic surfer photos
and wave predictions for the southern California coast to surfer tips
and even surfer poetry. Go with the flow via the Web at
http://sailfish.peregrine.com/surf/surf.html

COLORADO

Internet Express can keep you posted on the arts in the Colorado
Springs area. Use Gopher to connect to cns.cscns.com. From the main
menu, select Gopher by Subject, then Events in Colorado
Springs/Denver. You'll find listings for movies, music, plays and
more.

For basic Colorado travel information, get Ilana Stern's guide to the
state, available via ftp at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca as
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/colorado/colorado

CONNECTICUT

Atlantic Computing Technology Corp. maintains a World-Wide Web server
with various resources related to tourism in the Nutmeg State, at
http://maddie.atlantic.com/ct/intro.html.

"If you ache for a landscape uncluttered with skyscrapers and
concrete, come to Connecticut's Quiet Corner." Even if your yearning
isn't quite as strong as the Chamber of Commerce for northeastern
Connecticut would like, you might still want to find out what there is
to do in the region. You'll find all sorts of information about the
area via gopher at gopher.uconn.edu. At the main menu, select Around
and About UConn. and then Quiet Corner -- Northeast Connecticut.

FLORIDA

What would a trip to Florida be without a stop or two at Uncle Walt's?
Todd McCartney has written a book-length Very Unofficial Guide to Walt
Disney World (in fact, after several online revisions, he says the
next version will be on paper). You can get it via anonymous ftp at
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca as
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/florida/disneyworld.mccartney

HAWAII

The online version of The Moon Travel Handbook is a guide to the
sights and sounds of the Big Island. It's available via the Web at
http://bookweb.cwis.uci.edu:8042/Books/Moon/hawaii.html

You can't drive cross-country without stopping at at least one
dinosaur exhibit. So check out Honolulu Community College's Dinosaur
Exhibit, via WWW at http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html. And
yes, here is the glory of the Information Highway -- you can drive to
Hawaii and not get wet.

ILLINOIS

The University of Chicago gopher has guides to Hyde Park restaurants
and to ethnic restaurants across the Windy City. Connect to
gopher.uchicago.edu and select "Chicago!" from the main menu.

To get a listing of Chicago galleries and museums, use Gopher to
connect to nuinfo.nwu.edu. From the main menu, select Entertainment,
then Galleries.

And for a different view of life in Chicago, check out biancaTroll's
Smut Shack (no, it's not what you think), available via World-Wide
Web at http://www.psych.nwu.edu/biancaTroll/

INDIANA

Visit the bookstores, theaters and restaurants of Bloomington. Use the
Web to connect to http://cs.indiana.edu/inds/localstuff.html

IOWA

Find out what makes Des Moines the city that it is, via WWW at
http://www.dsmnet.com/. Pick up maps of the city to stuff in your virtual
glove compartment.

Is there anything to do in Iowa City? Well, they do have
movie houses, and you can find out what's playing when via Gopher at
chop.isca.uiowa.edu. Check out a movie schedule via Gopher at
chop.isca.uiowa.edu. From the main menu, select Local and then Movie
Times.

KENTUCKY

To some, the Kentucky Derby IS Kentucky. Catch up on photos of past
Derby winners via World-Wide Web at
http://guinness.inslab.uky.edu/~stevem/horses/pics/pics.html

LOUISIANA

The natives always know the best -- and worst -- places in town,
right? Find out how New Orleans residents rate their city's
attractions in a unique best&worst city guide available via ftp at
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca. You'll want to get
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/louisiana/new_orleans

MARYLAND

Pick up Mark Steven's Baltimore travel guide via ftp at
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca, as
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/maryland/baltimore

You'll find lists of B&Bs, hotels and motels as well as information on
hunting in the Chesterton/Kent County area via Gopher at
martha.washcoll.edu. From the main menu, select Selected Local, State,
US & International Resources, then Local.

MASSACHUSETTS

Ellis Cohen's Boston Restaurant List contains reviews and listings for
some 500 restaurants in the Boston area. It's available via World-Wide
Web at http://www.osf.org:8001/boston-food/boston-food.html. You can
get copies of restaurant reviews from the Boston Globe's Thursday
Calendar section by e- mail. To get a list of available reviews of
expensive restaurants, write [e-mail]. In the "subject:"
line, write: 555111. To get a list of available "Cheap Eats" reviews,
write to the same address, only as your "subject" write: 555222.

Look up what there is to do on Ol' Cape Cod in Cynthia Sellers's Cape
Cod Travel Guide. Use anonymous ftp to connect to ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca
and then get /rec-travel/north_america/usa/massachusetts/cape_cod

MINNESOTA

Look up current road conditions in the Land o' 10,000 Lakes before you
head north. Use Gopher to connect to wx.atmos.uiuc.edu. From the main
menu, select States, Minnesota and then Road Conditions.

NEBRASKA

What can you say about Nebraska? That it's flat? We used to think
that, until we visited the Nebraska Travel and Tourism gopher, where
we found a handy listing of "Nebraska Areas Where the Land Ain't Just
Flat." This Gopher is as close as you can get to the feeling of
tooling down the road in your '57 Chevy. Why, it's even got the
complete text to all those historic markers you were forever stopping
at, even though they invariably commemorated local events you had
never heard of. Only now you don't have to get out of the car -- just
pick up a copy of Nebraska Historical Markers (pt 1) and Nebraska
Historical Markers (pt 2), for the complete texts of every single
roadside marker in the state.

You'll also find information about lodging, interesting sites and the
like, as well as mind-numbing details about Nebraska tourism (most
tourists to Nebraska come from Colorado). Use Gopher to connect to
unlvm.unl.edu. From the main menu, select Selected Gopher Servers, then
Nebraska Economic Development Gopher and then Nebraska Travel and Tourism
Information.

Oh, and when you're done, don't forget to take the 110-question (!)
Nebraska Trivia Challenge!

NEVADA

The University of Nevada will keep you posted on events in Reno and
Las Vegas, although the latter calendar tends to focus on stuff like
jazz rather than Wayne Newton. For the former, use Gopher to connect
to gopher.scs.unr.edu and from the menu, select Events. For the
latter, use WWW to connect to http://www.unlv.edu/events/index.html.

Suffer from allergies? You might want to check out the Clark County
Health District Pollution/Pollen Reports before you travel to Las
Vegas. Use the World-Wide Web to connect to http://www.unlv.edu/CCHD/

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Look up schedules of plays and other performances in the Upper
Connecticut Valley region by using Gopher to connect to
gopher.dartmouth.edu. At the main menu, select The Community and then
Upper Valley Performing Arts Calendar.

NEW JERSEY

Princeton's this quaint little town built around a university. Find
out what to do and where to stay via Gopher at pucc.princeton.edu. At
the main menu, select Travel and Visitor Information.

NEW MEXICO

This is not your father's travel guide. But pick up a copy of Strange
but True Southwest - Weird Sights of Arizona and New Mexico anyway.
It's available via anonymous ftp at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca as
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/arizona/az-nm-sights

NEW YORK

The NYC - Net Person's Guide to New York City is just what it sounds like.
You'll find guides to everything from bars to bookstores to theater
listings. There's a file on abandoned subway tunnels and tracks;
another that lists basic NYC "survival" info. Use Gopher to connect to
quartz.rutgers.edu (which is actually across the river in New Jersey),
and from the main menu, select NYC.

But New York doesn't end at the Westchester line. Find out what's
happening in the Albany region via Gopher at uacsc2.albany.edu. At the
main menu, select Albany/Tri-Cities Regional Information for info on
local attractions.

Buffalo, the state's second-largest city, has a skyline, too. You can
get GIF images of it and other Western NY buildings via World-Wide Web
at ftp://wings.buffalo.edu/hh/wny/images

NORTH CAROLINA

Bone up on North Carolina's share of the Smoky Mountains via WWW at
http://www.nando.net/smokies/smokies.html

The University of North Carolina maintains an online museum of the
American South. You can get there via Web at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/doug_m/pages/south/south.html

You'll find pointers to lodging, restaurants, shopping and cultural
activities in the Research Triangle Park area via World-Wide Web at
http://www.rti.org/local_info/ lodging.html">Lodging

Know before you go. Use the Web to find out what roads will be blocked
or narrowed by construction. Connect to
http://itre.uncecs.edu/dot/projmap.html

OREGON

The state runs a Gopher that lets you check up on local hunting and
fishing information.  Connect to gopher.or.gov and from the main menu,
select Quality of Life, Recreation and then either Hunting or Fishing.

Oregon has a lot of big trees.  And they're mighty proud of 'em.
Apparently, there's some official National Registry of Big Trees, and
Oregon is, well, big on the list.  Learn all about these wooden
Oregonians at gopher.or.gov.  From the main menu, select Government,
Natural Resources, Department of Forestry and then Big Trees.

RHODE ISLAND

Brown University's gopher has tons of resources of interest to both
residents and tourists, from a calendar of events to information on
Ocean State beaches, restaurants, hotels, B&Bs and more. Point your
Gopher at gopher.brown.edu and at the main menu, select Providence
Local and Regional Information.

Find out what's happening at Roger Williams Park and Zoo and the
Cormack Planetarium in Providence by using the Web to connect to
http://ids.net/~cormack_pl/rw.html.

If you want to get tips from the natives (such as: what's the deal with
coffee syrup, anyway?), leave a message in the alt.rhode-island
newsgroup in Usenet.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Learn about the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway via WWW, at
http://www.clemson.edu/~barryj/bunky.html.

TENNESSEE

Register for the Smoky Mountain Field School 1994 via World-Wide Web
at http://www.ce.utk.edu/smoky.html

TEXAS

There's more to Texas cuisine than barbecue sauce slathered over ribs.
You can get reviews of "health-conscious restaurants" in the Dallas/Ft.
Worth area via the Web at http://gopher.metronet.com:70/1/North-Texas-
Free-Net/Directs/Rests

Read about Texan history on a Gopher at Rice University. Use Gopher to
connect to riceinfo.rice.edu. From the main menu, select Texas and
then Texas History.

UTAH

The University of Utah gopher is the place to go for Utah tourist
information. Use Gopher to connect to gopher.cc.utah.edu. From the
main menu, select Off Campus Info. Pick Recreation for information
about local ski resorts and shops. Or, pick State of Utah. Then,
ignoring the Salt Lake City police log (unless you must), pick Utah
Travel Council for information on everything else, including
Panoramaland, which is actually the name for a scenic part of the
state, not the tacky tourist trap it sounds like.

VERMONT

How did a whale wind up buried in Vermont? Find out in the University
of Vermont's online exhibit on Charlotte the Vermont Whale, which
features essays and images that also explain the geologic history of
the Lake Champlain region. It's available on the World-Wide Web at
http://www.uvm.edu/whale/whalehome.html.

WASHINGTON, DC

Find out what's happening at the Smithsonian and the National Zoo on
the American University Gopher.  Connect to gopher.american.edu and
from the main menu, select About Washington DC & the Area.

WASHINGTON STATE

Besides grunge, Seattle's best known for its coffee. Find out where
the natives go for java by picking up a copy of MotherCity Coffee:
Reviews of Seattle Coffeehouses, via WWW as
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cpage/mothercity.html

For things to do in Seattle besides sipping espresso, there's
Destination Seattle. Use Gopher to connect to gopher.seattle.wa.us. At
the main menu, select Destination Seattle for tips on restaurants,
recreation, cultural activities and more.

Winter's sooooo long away. But get ready now by checking out the
possibilities for cross-country skiing in Washington. Point your
World-Wide Web browser at http://eskinews.eskimo.com/nordic/

WEST VIRGINIA

Dave Peyton is a writer who likes to describe the things that make his
state unique.  Catch up with his columns via World-Wide Web at
http://pcn.proline.com/Dave_Peyton/dpeyton.html

WISCONSIN

Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- A Great Place on a Great Lake. It's your guide
to what to do there. Get it via anonymous ftp at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca
as /rec-travel/north_america/usa/wisconsin/milwaukee

And for a list of places to eat in Milwaukee, use Gopher to connect to
alpha1.csd.uwm.edu. At the main menu, select Milwaukee Information,
then Restaurant Guide.

WYOMING

Mike O'Brien has compiled a guide to Yellowstone National Park and
environs. You can get it via ftp at our old friend,
ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca as
/rec-travel/north_america/usa/wyoming/yellowstone_geysers


1.2 FYI

Brian Lucas has created an amazing travel resource on the Net: the
rec.travel archives. at ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca (if you made it this far on our
trek, you'll have noticed that a number of the recommended guides come
from there).  You'll find detailed recommendations for U.S. states,
Canadian provinces and other countries; cruise-line recommendations;
basic travel information, and more.  Use anonymous ftp or ncftp to
connect and then switch tothe rec-travel directory. If you have access
to Mosaic, Lynx or some other World-Wide Web browser, you'll want to
get ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/rec-travel/rec-travel.html, which will
give you a Web interface to all of the resources.

O'Reilly and Associates's Global Network Navigator has its own extensive,
and growing travel center, which features guides to specific locations as
well as original travel writing (it's currently featuring Jeff Greenwald's
saga of travel through remote parts of Asia).  Use a Web browser to
connect to http://gnn.com to pick the GNN server nearest you.  Then select
the Travel Center.

Speaking of World-Wide Web, you can use a Web version of our virtual tour.
Point your browser at http://www.std.com/NE/usatour.html.

And yes, I realize I missed some locales.  Alas, there either isn't
much to do in Delaware, or nobody's put information about such places
online.  If you do hear of any, let me know!


2. PUBLIC-ACCESS INTERNET SITES

GERMANY

Erlangen-Nuernburg.  Free-Net Erlangen-Nuernburg, 09131-85-8111. Log on
as: guest. Local conferences and information, access to many Internet
resources and to other Free-Net sites in the U.S. and Canada. German and
English menus. Complete access requires completion of written registration
form, 2DM registration fee. Voice: 09131-85-2693.

MISSOURI

Springfield.  Ozarks Regional Information Online Network, [phone].
Log on as: guest. Local conferences and information, access to many
Internet resources and to other Free-Net sites in the U.S. and Canada.
Complete access requires completion of written registration form. Free.
Voice: [phone], ext. 15.

NEW YORK

Buffalo.  Buffalo Free-Net, [phone]. Log on as: visitor.
Local conferences and information, access to many Internet resources and
to other Free-Net sites in the U.S. and Canada. Complete access requires
completion of written registration form. Free.

UTAH

Salt Lake City. XMission, [phone]  Voice: [phone].  Menu and
Unix.  CSLIP/PPP usage no extra charge. $5 for the first month; $19 a
month after that; $102 for six months.

WASHINGTON STATE

Seattle. Seattle Community Network, [phone]. Log on as: visitor.
Local conferences and information, access to many Internet resources and
to other Free-Net sites in the U.S. and Canada. Complete access requires
completion of written registration form. Free.


3. ERRATA/UPDATES

In Chapter 1, the wrong information is given for reaching a user of the
GEnie network.  To send e-mail to somebody on GEnie, the generic address
form is: [e-mail].

In section 9.4 of the Guide, it is recommended to use the index%% command
for getting directory listings via ftpmail.  dir%% or ls%% will probably
work more reliably.

Appendix A may make it seem as if the Simtel software collection is no
longer available.  In fact it is, via any number of ftp sites.  What is
no longer available is public access to the computer originally used to
house the collection.


4. CONTACT INFO

Everybody's Internet Update is published monthly by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. Current and back copies are available by anonymous ftp at
ftp.eff.org in the pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Updates directory; by gopher at
gopher.eff.org (select Net Info, then EFF Net Guide, then Updates); and
by WWW at http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/Updates/

If you'd like to receive the Updates automatically, write to net-guide-
[e-mail].  As the message, write: add net-guide (do not include your
name or address).

To obtain a copy of the entire EFF Guide to the Internet, use anonymous
ftp or ncftp to connect to ftp.eff.org and look in the
/pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide directory, or use gopher to connect to
gopher.eff.org and then select Net Info and then EFF Net Guide.  You'll
find several versions for different types of computers.  The file
netguide.eff is the generic ASCII version.

For general information on the Electronic Frontier Foundation, send an e-
mail message to [e-mail]. To ask a specific question, write
[e-mail]. To reach Adam Gaffin, editor of Everybody's Internet
Update, write [e-mail].

Everybody's Internet Update is copyright 1994 by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, Washington, D.C.

--
Adam Gaffin
[e-mail] / [phone]
The big dummy behind Everybody's Guide to the Internet.