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- "WHERE TO START" FOR NEW INTERNET USERS
- Jim Milles
- Ver. 2.0
- 12/16/93
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- 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.
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- 2. Some recommended books for new users of the Internet:
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- 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.)
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- Hahn, Harley & Rick Stout. _The Internet Complete
- Reference_. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1993. (Widely
- considered the the best of the new crop of Internet books,
- and at 800+ pages, by far the most comprehensive.)
-
- Krol, Ed. _The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog_.
- Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1992. (In the fast-
- moving world of the Internet, for most of 1993 this was the
- successor to _Zen_ as the essential guide to the Internet;
- has now been superseded somewhat by more up-to-date works
- such as _The Internet Complete Reference_.)
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- Other useful books for new users:
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- Aboba, Bernard. _The Online User's Encyclopedia: Bulletin
- Boards and Beyond_. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994. (A
- remarkably useful and comprehensive work, covering everything
- from the basics of computer communications, to using local
- bulletin boards, to the intricacies of the Internet.)
-
- Dern, Daniel P. _The Internet Guide for New Users_. New
- York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. (Dern is the editor of _Internet
-
- World_ magazine and author of numerous articles on the
- Internet in many other publications.)
-
- Engst, Adam. _Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh_.
- Indianapolis: Hayden Press, 1993. (Highly recommended by Mac
- users, many of whom preferred this to the Fraase book listed
- below. Includes a disk with a variety of Internet access
- software.)
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- Fisher, Sharon. _Riding the Internet Highway_. Carmel,
- Indiana: New Riders Pub., 1993.
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- Fraase, Michael. _The Mac Internet Tour Guide: Cruising the
- Internet the Easy Way_. Chapel Hill NC: Ventana Press, 1993.
- (The first Internet guide written for Macintosh users;
- includes a 800K disc containing useful software.)
-
- Gardner, James. _A DOS User's Guide to the Internet_.
- Waterloo, ON, Canada: MKS [Mortice Kern Systems], 1993.
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- Gilster, Paul. _The Internet Navigator_. New York: John
- Wiley, 1993.
-
- 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.)
-
- Kochmer, Jonathan and NorthWestNet. _The Internet Passport:
- NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online_. 4th ed.
- Bellevue, WA: NorthWestNet, 1993. (A comprehensive guide to
- Internet resources, comparable to Krol's _The Whole Internet_
- but even broader in scope. It covers a number of areas that
- other guides ignore.)
-
- Lambert, Steve & Walt Howe. _Internet Basics_. New York:
- Random House, 1993. (Although this is a good, general guide
- to the Internet for any user, it is especially useful for
- those who access the Internet through the commercial Delphi
- information service. Howe is the sysop of the Delphi
- Internet SIG)
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- Levine, John R. and Carol Baroudi. _The Internet for
- Dummies_. San Mateo, California: IDG Books, 1993. (A very
- useful, well organized, and readable book, one of the
- publisher's popular "... for Dummies" series.)
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- Marine, April; Kirkpatric, Susan; Neou, Vivian; and Ward,
- Carol. _Internet: Getting Started_. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
- PTR Prentice Hall, 1992. (Includes useful information on how
- to obtain Internet access, as well as other technical
- reference material.)
-
- 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.)
-
- Smith, Richard and Mark Gibbs. _Navigating the Internet_.
- Carmel, Indiana: SAMS Publishing, 1993. (A highly readable
- guide, with an easy-to-use listing of Internet resources
- arranged by subject. Smith is well known for his popular
- online "Navigating the Internet" courses.)
-
- 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.)
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- 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):
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- De Presno, Odd. "The Online World." Available by anonymous
- ftp from oak.oakland.edu, directory /pub/msdos/info, type
- binary, filename online12.zip. Uncompress with PKZip 2.04g.
- (An excellent source for coverage of European resources, also
- excellent for users of commercial services like CompuServe,
- Genie, and MCImail.)
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- Gaffin, Adam and Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Big
- Dummy's Guide to the Internet." December 1993. Available
- by anonymous ftp from ftp.eff.org, directory /pub/EFF/papers,
- filename bigdummy.txt.
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- Martin, Jerry. "There's Gold in them thar Networks! or
- Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places." RFC 1402,
- January 1993. Available by anonymous ftp from nic.merit.edu,
- directory /introducing.the.internet, filename network.gold.
-
- Milles, James. "An Introduction to Using the Internet at
- Saint Louis University School of Law." Available by
- anonymous ftp from sluaxa.slu.edu, directory /pub/millesjg,
- filename interlaw.wp (binary, WordPerfect 5.1/5.2 format),
- interlaw.txt (ASCII), or interlaw.ps (PostScript). (Although
- the focus is on legal resources, this guide should be useful
- for any VAX/VMS user. It is also the only source I know of
- that discusses the differing commands for the BITNET and Unix
- listserver systems.)
-
- NCSA Education Group. "An Incomplete Guide to the Internet."
- July 1993. Available by anonymous ftp from
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu, directory
- /Education/Education_Resources/Incomplete_Guide, filename
- Incomp.Guide.July.txt. (Focuses on K-12 users and
- resources.)
-
- Noonan, Dana. "A Guide to Internet/Bitnet." June 1993.
- Available by anonymous ftp from vm1.nodak.edu, directory
- /nnews, filename guide1.nnews. (A rare and valuable guide
- for the VAX/VMS user.)
-
- "NYSERNet New User's Guide to Useful and Unique Resources on
- the Internet." Version 2.2, April 1992. Available by
- anonymous ftp from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides,
- filename new.user.guide.V2.2.txt
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- Parker, Elliott S. "Getting to Start: Selected Readings in
- Computer Communication." Ver. 4.01 (13 Dec 1993). Available
- by sending an e-mail message to LISTSERV@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU
- containing only the line GET NETSTART INFO F=MAIL. (A
- lengthy bibliography of books, articles, and other materials
- about the Internet and related topics.)
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- Polly, Jean Armour. "Surfing the INTERNET: An Introduction."
- Version 2.0.2, December 16, 1992. Available by anonymous ftp
- from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides, file
- surfing.2.0.2.txt.
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- "SURAnet Guide to Selected Internet Resources." January
- 1993. Available by anonymous ftp from ftp.sura.net,
- directory /pub/nic, file infoguide.1-93.txt.
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- 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 by anonymous ftp from csd4.csd.uwm.edu,
- directory /pub, filename inet.services.txt.
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- 4. For information on how to get connected to the Internet:
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- Engle, Mary, Marilyn Lutz, William W. Jones, Jr., and
- Genevieve Engel. _Internet Connections: A Librarian's Guide
- to Dial-Up Access and Use_. Lita Monographs 3. Chicago:
- Library and Information Technology Association, 1993.
-
- Estrada, Susan. _Connecting to the Internet: An O'Reilly
- Buyer's Guide_. Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1993.
-
- If you have e-mail access to the Internet, you can
- obtain a copy of the Public Dialup Internet Access List (the
- most comprehensive list of Internet access providers for
- individuals and small organizations) by sending an e-mail
- message containing the command "Send PDIAL" to
- info-deli-server@netcom.com.
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- 5. The latest version of this document, "Where to Start" for New
- Internet Users, is available by anonymous ftp from
- sluaxa.slu.edu, directory /pub/millesjg, filename
- newusers.faq. It may also be obtained by e-mail by sending a
- message to LISTSERV@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu containing only the
- line GET NEWUSERS FAQ NETTRAIN F=MAIL
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- Jim Milles (listowner, NETTRAIN@UBVM) Phone: (314) 658-2759
- Head of Computer Services Fax: (314) 658-3966
- Saint Louis University Law Library
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