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Internet Tools Summary
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AUTHOR:     John December ([e-mail])
DATE:       02 Dec 94; Release 1.77
COPYRIGHT:  1994 by John December ([e-mail]). You may use this
document for any personal or educational purpose. For-profit
distribution requires permission.  DISCLAIMER: Provided ``as is''
without expressed or implied warranty.  PURPOSE: to list tools
available on the Internet that are used for network information
retrieval (NIR) and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). This is not
meant to be a strict categorization or an exhaustive list, rather a
reference catalog. I welcome c omments and suggestions.  AUDIENCE:
those getting started in understanding what you can do on the Internet
in NIR and CMC; for experienced users, it collects and summarizes
sources of information.  ASSUMPTION: You have access to and know how to
use finger, ftp, gopher, http, telnet, email, World Wide Web, or Usenet
newsgroups.  REFERENCES: The references which are listed at the end of
this document provide very useful guides to these tools.  ACTION: The
Action notation that I had described in earlier versions of this
document is in the internet-tools.tax file.  NOTES:  1. Respect your
access privileges to these tools.  2. This information changes;
additions/comments welcome.  3. For demo purposes, I have used Unix
commands; certainly Unix is not the only operating system required for
these tools and forums. Apologies to those who don't have Unix.  4. On
the classification (NIR v. CMC): some tools could be used for either,
such as telnet and email. I've placed them in what I feel are
"principle use" categories, e.g., telnet is used mostly for NIR, and
email is commonly used for CMC (although both hav e applications in the
other category).  5. Many of these tools have applicability off the
Internet. Usenet, for example, is not confined to the Internet, and
Internet email (and thus LISTSERV files) can be exchanged with
communication systems off the Internet (BITNET, fidonet, commercial
service s.) So this list is not Internet (only) tools, but tools that
can be used on the Internet.  6. A $ sign indicates a non-public domain
tool or interface.  7. The easiest way to use this list is to access
the hypertext version at URL
http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/itools/top.html
Information about updates of this document:
>John December:  contact for comments, corrections, updates
(mailto:[e-mail]).
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* Section -1- ABOUT THIS INFORMATION
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o Notes
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These are some explanatory files for using this information and
describing this project.  >Segmented:  describes how to use the
segmented hypertext format of this information
(http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/itools/top.html).
>README:  describes Internet tools project and other formats of the
information
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.readme).
>Using:  some tips and instructions on using the access methods
mentioned in this file
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.use).
>Taxonomy:  some notes toward a taxonomy of Internet tools
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.tax).
o Formats
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These are the other formats for this information.  Note that the files
at the ftp site (ftp.rpi.edu) will not be as current as those on the
web server.  >Database:  the raw database in my own, simple markup
language from which I generate all versions of this information
(warning--this is a large file)
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.dat).
>DVI:  the device-independent file (generated from LaTeX source file)
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.dvi).
>HTML 1 big page:  HTML version of this information on one big page
(http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/itools/internet-tools.html).
>HTML segmented:  HTML version of this information in a web of pages
divided by section, sub-section, and sub-sub-section
(http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/itools/top.html).
>LaTeX:  source for the LaTeX version of this information
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.tex).
>Postscript:  postscript version of this information
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.ps.Z).
>Text Wide:  text version of this information >80 columns wide
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools).
>Text 80:  text version of this information, 80 columns wide
(ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/pub/communications/internet-tools.txt).
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* Section -2- NIR = NETWORK INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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o Utilities
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- Finger
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Definition: Finger retrieves information about a user registered on a
host computer.  >Finger description:  Unix manual page for finger
(unix:man finger).
>Finger Protocol:  The Finger User Information Protocol, by D.
Zimmerman (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1288.txt).
>Finger via email:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Subject: "#finger
[e-mail]").
>Finger via gopher:  gopher to HOST, port 79, path 0USER-ID
(gopher://rpi.edu:79/0decemj).
>Finger via telnet:  access finger via telnet HOST=host on which USER
is located, then type USER (telnet://rpi.edu:79).
>FingerInfo:  a script to get information via finger, by Scott Yanoff
(ftp://csd4.csd.uwm.edu/pub/fingerinfo).
>FingerInfo via WWW:  a hypertext version of Scott Yanoff's FingerInfo
script, by A. Daviel (http://sundae.triumf.ca/fingerinfo.html).
>Logfinger:  A Program to Log a Fingerer
(gopher://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:79/0logfinger).
- Netfind
........................................................................
Definition: Netfind provides a simple Internet `white pages' user
directory.  >Netfind description:  a way to find someone on the
Internet, by Michael F. Schwartz
(ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/netfind/README).
>Netfind info/EARN:  an overview and introduction to Netfind, from
European Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/netfind.html).
>Netfind source:  (ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/cs/distribs/netfind/).
>Netfind via Web:  (http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/netfind.html).
>Netfind via telnet:  using telnet to find someone on the Internet
(telnet://[e-mail]).
>Netfind via email:  use email to find someone on the Internet
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get netfind help).
- Nslookup
........................................................................
Definition: Nslookup is an interactive program to query Internet domain
name servers (gives IP address).  >Nslookup man page:  Unix man page
(unix:man nslookup).
>Nslookup command:  command to find out about command-name
(unix:nslookup domain-name).
- Ping
........................................................................
Definition: Ping requests echo from network host; see if remote host is
up.  >Ping source:  source code and a description of Ping and its use
(README) (ftp://vixen.cso.uiuc.edu/utils/ping/).
>Ping demo:  check to see if host uwm.edu is up and roundtrip time
(unix:/usr/etc/ping -s uwm.edu).
>WWWPing:  simple internet pinging, and for HTTP pinging, with server
identification, by Jonathon Fletcher
(http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/wwping).
- Shepherd
........................................................................
Definition: Shepherd monitors information servers (gopher, WAIS, WWW,
jughead) to make sure they are responding.  >Shepherd:  monitoring tool
for gopher, WAIS, WWW, jughead
(ftp://inform.umd.edu/software/Gopher/).
- TIA = The Internet Adapter (tm)
........................................................................
Definition: The Internet Adapter (tm) $, allows you to use TCP/IP
applications using a UNIX shell account.  This is classified as an
"Internet access utility." >TIA:  The Internet Adapter (tm), $
(http://marketplace.com/0/tia/tiahome.html).
- WHOIS
........................................................................
Definition: WHOIS provides information on registered computer network
users, domains, and organizations.  >Whois info/EARN:  overview and
introductory information about WHOIS, from European Academic Research
Network Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/whois.html).
>Whois specs:  NICNAME/WHOIS, by Harrenstien, Stahl, Feinler (October
1985) (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0954.txt).
>Whois Servers List:  List of Internet whois servers, by Matt Power
(ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list).
>Whois via email:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Subject: whois
HOST.DOMAIN).
>Whois via gopher:  enter HOST.DOMAIN to query
(gopher://phantom.bsu.edu:4320/7whois%20rs.internic.net).
>Whois via telnet:  at the prompt, enter whois host-name
(telnet://rs.internic.net).
>Whois via Unix:  the Unix command for whois, where `string' is the
organization/person name or Internet domain name (unix:whois
"string").
- X.500
........................................................................
Definition: X.500 (OSI Directory Service) provides globally distributed
directory service.  >X.500 Definition:  Executive Introduction to
Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi_13.txt).
>X.500 info/EARN:  overview and introduction to X.500, from European
Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/x500.html).
>X.500 Implement:  A Revised Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi_11.txt).
>X.500 Technical:  Technical Overview of Directory Services Using the
X.500 Protocol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi_14.txt).
>X.500 via telnet:  at the prompt, enter X500whois host-name
(telnet://rs.internic.net).
>X.500 via gopher:  (gopher://judgmentday.rs.itd.umich.edu:7777).
>X.500 via WWW:  from the X.500 Group at Brunel University
(http://http1.brunel.ac.uk:8080/wlu.html).
o Tools
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- Alibi = Adaptive Location of Internetworked Bases of Information
........................................................................
Definition: Alibi provides a query interface to retrieve information by
keywords >Alibi info:  source code for Alibi, by Dave Flater
(ftp://speckle.ncsl.nist.gov/flater/sources/).
>Dave Flater:  developer of Alibi (mailto:[e-mail]).
- Archie
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Definition: Archie locates files at anonymous FTP sites by filename (or
string expression) search.  >Archie description:  archie - An
Electronic Directory Service for the Internet, by Deutsch, Emtage, and
Heelan (ftp://archie.ans.net/pub/archie/doc/whatis.archie).
>Archie info/EARN:  overview and information about Archie, from
European Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/archie.html).
>Archie manual page:  reference manual page for archie
(ftp://archie.ans.net/pub/archie/doc/archie.man.txt).
>Archie via telnet:  a telnet demo of archie
(telnet://[e-mail]).
>Archie via gopher:  a collection of information and links about
archie, from Texas A and M University
(gopher://gopher.tamu.edu/11/.dir/archie.dir).
>Archie via WWW:  List of Hypertext Archie Servers (ArchiePlex), by
Martijn Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/archie.html).
>Archie via Unix:  Unix command line for hosts with installed archie
client, search for STRING (unix:archie -s STRING).
>Archie via email:  use archie via email (mailto:[e-mail]
Body: help).
>Anarchie:  a Mac client that integrates archie searches and ftp
requests, by Peter Lewis (ftp://amug.org/pub/ftp1/peterlewis/).
- Astra
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Definition: Astra retrieve documents from databases.  >Astra Help:  the
help file for Astra (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help).
>Astra documentation:  Astra User Guide
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: GET META DOCUMENT).
- Bitftp
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Definition: Bitftp allows the user to use electronic mail to obtain
files at an ftp site via email.  >Bitftp info/EARN:  from European
Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/notice.html).
- Essence
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Definition: Essence is a resource discovery system using indexes.
>Essence description:  The distribution includes the following files
and directories
(ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/essence/README).
>Essence document:  Essence -- A Resource Discovery System Based on
Semantic File Indexing
(ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/essence/Essence.txt.Z).
- FSP = File Service Protocol
........................................................................
Definition: FSP is a conectionless protocol for transferring files.
>FSP INFO:  an overview and description of FSP
(ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/network/inet/fsp/INFO).
>FSP FAQ:  Frequently Asked Questions about FSP
(ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/network/inet/fsp/FAQ).
>FSP Sites:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Subject: fsp list  Body:
help).
>FSP software:  (ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/network/inet/fsp/).
>FSP Discussion:  an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about FSP
(news:alt.comp.fsp).
- FTP = File Transfer Protocol
........................................................................
Definition: FTP retrieves or puts copies of files at remote FTP sites.
>FTP how to:  A guide to using ftp
(ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/nic/network.service.guides/how.to.ftp.guide).
>FTP:  File Transfer Protocol
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0959.txt).
>FTP FAQ:  Anonymous FTP Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/ftp-list/faq).
>FTP Interface:  look at ftp site lists
(http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ftp-interface.html).
>FTP via Unix:  Unix command for ftp, once in, type help (unix:ftp).
>FTP via email:  get files at anonymous ftp sites via email.
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help).
>FTP via telnet:  site at Univ of IA (telnet://grind.isca.uiowa.edu).
>File Compression:  File compression, archiving, and text<->binary
formats, by David Lemson
(ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/doc/pcnet/compression).
>FTP setup:  (ftp://cert.org/pub/tech_tips/anonymous_ftp).
- Jughead
........................................................................
Definition: Jughead gets menu information from gopher servers.
>Jughead description:  description of Jonzy's Universal Gopher
Hierarchy Excavation And Display (JUGHEAD) current status, by Rhett
`Jonzy' Jones
(ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher/Unix/GopherTools/jughead/jughead.ReadMe).
>Jughead Search:  (gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3002/7).
- Knowbot
........................................................................
Definition: Knowbot provides a uniform interface to heterogeneous
remote directory services.  >Knowbot via telnet:  use a knowbot service
via telnet; at the prompt, type `help'
(telnet://info.cnri.reston.va.us:185).
- Maltshop
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Definition: Maltshop builds a veronica-access menu on your local gopher
server.  >Maltshop script:
(ftp://veronica.scs.unr.edu/veronica-code/).
- Netserv
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Definition: Netserv is a server for access to data files and programs
of general interest.  >Netserv:  a server for access to data files and
programs of general interest (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get
netserv helpfile).
>Netserv info/EARN:  from European Academic Research Network
Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/netserv.html).
- Soft-Pages
........................................................................
Definition: Soft Pages aids in retrieval of documents, software, and
other resources from servers.  >Soft Pages documentation:
(ftp://ftp.tohoku.ac.jp/pub/spp).
>Project description:  Soft Pages Project, by Johannsen and Mansfield
(ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/osi-ds/osi-ds-39-00.txt).
- Spiders
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Definition: Spiders are a class of software programs that traverse
network hosts gathering information from and about resources.  >Web
Spiders:  World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders, by Martijn
Koster (http://web.nexor.co.uk/mak/doc/robots/robots.html).
>Yahoo List:  Reference--Searching the Web--Robots, Spiders, etc., from
Yahoo
(http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Reference/Searching_the_Web/Robots__Spiders__etc_/).
A selected list of Web spiders:  >Web Ants:  a project for cooperating,
distributed Web spiders
(http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/jrrl-space/webants.html).
>Harvest Brokers:  (http://rd.cs.colorado.edu/brokers/).
>Crawler:  gathers indexes of the total contents of documents, as well
as URLSs and titles, by Brian Pinkerton
(http://www.biotech.washington.edu/WebQuery.html).
>JumpStation:  indexes the titles and headers of documents on the Web,
by Jonathon Fletcher (http://www.stir.ac.uk/jsbin/js/).
>Lycos:  uses information metrics to record the 100 most important
words in a document, along with the first 20 lines, so that users can
often determine the value of a WWW document without retrieving it
(http://fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/mlm/lycos-home.html).
>MOMspider:  a spider that you can install on your system (Unix/Perl)
(http://www.ics.uci.edu/WebSoft/MOMspider/).
>NIKOS:  allows a topic-oriented search of a spider database
(http://www.rns.com/cgi-bin/nikos).
>RBSE URL:  a database of URL references, with full WAIS indexing of
the contents of the documents, by David Eichmann
(http://rbse.jsc.nasa.gov/eichmann/urlsearch.html).
>SG-Scout:  a robot for finding Web servers
(http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~ptbb/SG-Scout.html).
>Wandex:  index from the World Wide Web Wanderer, by Matthew Gray
(http://www.mit.edu:8001/cgi/wandex/index).
>Worm:  gathers information about titles and URLs from Web servers, by
Oliver McBryan (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWW.html).
- Telnet
........................................................................
Definition: Telnet allows a user to login to a remote computer to use
applications.  >Telnet how:  a guide to using telnet
(ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/nic/network.service.guides/how.to.telnet.guide).
>Telnet tips:
(http://kufacts.cc.ukans.edu/hytelnet_html/TELNET.html).
>TELNET:  Telnet Protocol
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0818.txt).
>Telnet demo:  check the weather
(telnet://downwind.sprl.umich.edu:3000).
>Telnet search:  find telnet connections based on keyword search
(gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3004/7).
- Trickle
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Definition: Trickle is an electronic mail-based alternative to
obtaining files at FTP sites.  >Trickle:  an email-based alternative to
FTP, information
(gopher://gopher.earn.net/11/doc/gnrt-by-chapters/TRICKLE).
>Trickle info/EARN:  from European Academic Research Network
Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/trickle.html).
>Trickle guide:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get trickle
memo).
- Veronica
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Definition: Veronica locates titles of Gopher items by keyword search.
>Veronica info:  information about veronica
(ftp://veronica.scs.unr.edu/pub/veronica/).
>Veronica Queries:
(ftp://veronica.scs.unr.edu/veronica-docs/how-to-query-veronica).
>Gopher/Veronica documentation:
(ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/doc/net/uiucnet/vol6no1.txt).
>Veronica via gopher:  Search ALL of Gopherspace using veronica
(gopher://veronica.scs.unr.edu/11/veronica).
o Systems
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- Alex
........................................................................
Definition: Alex provides transparent read of remote files at anonymous
FTP sites.  >Alex description:  NIR (Networked Information Retrieval)
description of Alex (ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/usr0/anon/doc/NIR.Tool).
>Alex Web Page:  Alex FTP Filesystem
(ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/usr0/anon/www/alex.html).
>Alex document:  (ftp://alex.sp.cs.cmu.edu/usr0/anon/doc/intro.ps).
- GN
........................................................................
Definition: GN is a multi-protocol (gopher0, http/1.0) server.  >GN
Description:  (ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/gn/README).
>GN Source:  (ftp://ftp.acns.nwu.edu/pub/gn/).
- Gopher
........................................................................
Definition: Gopher provides access to resources using a graph of
menus.  >Gopher guide:  Internet Gopher User's Guide, ed. Paul Linder
(ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher/docs/).
>Gopher info/EARN:  gopher overview and introduction, from European
Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/gopher.html).
>Gopher sources/info:  gopher client/server source code, as well as
general information (e.g. gopher conference, gopherMoo, etc.)
(ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/gopher/).
>Gopher demo:  a session demonstrating gopher at Univ of Minnesota
(gopher://gopher.micro.umn.edu).
>Gopher via telnet:  (telnet://[e-mail]).
>Gopher via email/Japan:  use a gopher via email
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help).
>Gopher via email/USA:  use a gopher via email
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help).
>Gopher FAQ:  Common Questions and Answers about the Internet Gopher, a
client/server protocol for making a world wide information service,
with many implementations
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/gopher-faq).
>Gopher-Web:  Gopher in the World-Wide Web, gopher-Web interactions
(gopher://gopher.ocf.berkeley.edu/00/gopher/gopher-www).
>Gopher/Veronica article:  Exploring the Power of the Internet Gopher,
by Lynn Ward; an article from the University of Illinois publication
UIUCnet, Dec. 1992 - Jan. 1993, Vol. 6, No. 1, a newsletter covering
campus networking issues
(ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/doc/net/uiucnet/vol6no1.txt).
>Discussion:  unmoderated Usenet newsgroup devoted to gopher
(news:comp.infosystems.gopher).
- Prospero
........................................................................
Definition: Prospero provides user-centered view of remote files.
>Prospero document:  Prospero user's manual, by Neuman and Augart
(ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/prospero/doc/prospero-user-manual.tex.Z).
>Prospero info/EARN:  from European Academic Research Network
Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/prospero.html).
>Prospero documentation:  description of prospero documentation
available
(ftp://prospero.isi.edu/pub/prospero/doc/README-prospero-documents).
- WAIS = Wide Area Information Server
........................................................................
Definition: WAIS(tm) responds to natural language queries by searching
indexes of databases and retrieving resources.  >WAIS overview:
Overview of Wide Area Information Servers, by Brewster Kahle (April
1991) (ftp://quake.think.com/wais/doc/overview.txt).
>WAIS:  A Sketch of An Overview, by Jeff Kallem
(ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/libsoft/wais.txt).
>WAIS info/EARN:  WAIS overview and introduction, from European
Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/wais.html).
>WAIS documentation:  information on WAIS, Inc. and products
(ftp://quake.think.com/pub/wais-inc-doc/).
>WAIS, Inc. web:  interactive on-line publishing systems and services
to organizations (http://server.wais.com).
>WAIS clients:  client to WAIS in different interfaces (X)
(ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/wais/clients/).
>freeWAIS:  a UNIX based, freely available information server.
(ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/freewais/).
>WAIS via telnet:  (telnet://[e-mail]).
>WAISGATE:  WAIS to WWW gateway, search WAIS databases through search
terms, public directory maintained by WAIS, Inc.
(http://server.wais.com/directory-of-servers.html).
>SFgate:  a CGI script which interfaces to WAIS servers, all freeWAIS
servers can be connected, by Ulrich Pfeifer
(http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/SFgate/SFgate.html).
>Discussion-WAIS:  an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup covering all aspects
of WAIS (news:comp.infosystems.wais).
- WWW = World Wide Web
........................................................................
Definition: WWW is a system for disseminating Internet resources
through servers and retrieving hypermedia resources through browsers.
>WWW overview/CERN:  overview of the Web, from Conseil Europeen pour la
Recherche Nucleaire (CERN) European Laboratory for Particle Physics,
Geneva, Switzerland (birthplace of WWW)
(http://info.cern.ch/default.html).
>WWW info/EARN:  What is World-Wide Web, a narrative introducing and
explaining the Web, from European Academic Research Network Association
(EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/www.html).
>WWW FAQ/Boutell:  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list and answers
about the Web--covers user, provider, and general information,
maintained by Thomas Boutell
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html).
>WWW FAQ/CERN:  Frequently Asked Questions on W3, by Tim Berners-Lee at
CERN (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/List.html).
>WWW Clients:  a list of programs (Web browsers) that allow you to
access the WWW, from CERN
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html).
>WWW Servers:  a list of programs (Web servers) that allow you to
provide information on the Web, from CERN
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/Overview.html).
>EIT WSK:  Enterprise Integration Technologies Corporation's
Webmaster's Starter Kit, a resource to help you install a Web server
and optional extensions (http://wsk.eit.com/wsk/doc/).
>WWW ftp info:  some information files about the Web, includes papers,
guides, and draft specifications, from CERN
(ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/www/).
>WWW via telnet:  an example of using WWW via telnet (to CERN)
(telnet://telnet.w3.org).
>WWW via email:  obtain a web file (e.g., http) via email; URL =
Uniform resource locator; send message body 'www URL', note-use
sparingly, from CERN (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: WWW).
>WWW gateways:  interfaces between the WWW and other information or
communication systems
(http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Gateways/).
>WWW Guide/Hughes:  Entering the World-Wide Web, A Guide to Cyberspace,
by Kevin Hughes (http://www.eit.com/web/www.guide/guide.toc.html).
>WWW Developers:  WWW+HTML Developer's JumpStation-a collection of
pointers about WWW and developing HTML, by Barry Raveendran Greene
(http://oneworld.wa.com/htmldev/devpage/dev-page.html).
>WWW Weavers:  a collection of links to assist web weavers, includes
pointers to HTML resources, techniques, guides, and information, by
Chris Beaumont (http://www.nas.nasa.gov/RNR/Education/weavers.html).
>Yahoo WWW:  Computers-World Wide Web
(http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Computers/World_Wide_Web/).
>CyberWeb:  a resource collection for Web information providers and
users, includes general information and links to various resources
(http://www.charm.net/~web/).
>WWW Spiders:  Spiders are a class of software programs that traverse
network hosts gathering information from and about resources
(http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/itools/nir-tools-spiders.html).
>webNews:  announcements of new Web sites, services, and software
(http://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu:70/webNews.80).
>Discussion-Users:  an unmoderated newsgroup for discussing Web client
and user topics, including network resource discovery and new user
questions (news:comp.infosystems.www.users).
>Discussion-Misc:  an unmoderated newsgroup for discussing general web
topics not directly related to users or providers, including issues of
the Web's future and development (news:comp.infosystems.www.misc).
>Discussion-Providers:  an unmoderated newsgroup for discussing Web
server and information provider topics, including information
presentation and HTML design (news:comp.infosystems.www.providers).
o Interfaces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Lists
........................................................................
For a longer list of World Wide Web browsers, see:  >WWW Browser
source:  source code for a variety of Web browsers for different
hardware platformst (ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/www/bin/).
>WWW Clients:  a list of programs to allow you to access the WWW from
your own computer (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html).
>WWW Browsers/Clients:  from UNITE
(http://life.anu.edu.au/links/syslib.html).
>WWW Browsers/Yahoo:  list from Yahoo, Computers-World Wide
Web-Browsers
(http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/).
- Biomix
........................................................................
Definition: Biomix presents network resources as locations on screen
maps.  Note: Not known to be operational >Biomix description:  BIOMIX
current status, by Marcus Pattloch
(ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/unite/files/biomix.txt).
- Chimera
........................................................................
Definition: Chimera is a HTTP, FTP, Gopher client with an X/Athena
interface.  >Chimera source:  (ftp://ftp.cs.unlv.edu/pub/chimera/).
>Chimera Home Page:  a HTTP, FTP, Gopher client with X/Athena
interface, by John Kilburg (http://www.unlv.edu/chimera/index.html).
- Cello
........................................................................
Definition: Cello is a DOS-based Internet browser incorporating WWW,
Gopher, FTP, Telnet, News.  >Cello source:  source code
(ftp://ftp.law.cornell.edu/pub/LII/Cello/).
- Compass
........................................................................
Definition: Compass is a system for Internet access to resources and
tools for CERFnet subscribers; >Compass description:  Internet
Compass-your network guide, CERFnet offers new service for easier
Internetting (ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/unite/files/compass.txt).
- Emacs-WWW-browser
........................................................................
Definition: Emacs WWW browser is a means to access the World Wide Web.
>Emacs WWW:  an Emacs subsystem that allows the user to browse the
World Wide Web (http://cs.indiana.edu/elisp/w3/docs.html).
>Emacs WWW source:  (ftp://cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/).
- Fred
........................................................................
Definition: Fred is an interface to the OSI X.500 white pages directory
service.  >Fred:  Performance Systems International White Pages Pilot
Project (telnet://[e-mail]).
- GINA
........................................................................
Definition: Gina $ stands for Graphical Interface for Network Access
(client/server) to email, conferencing, bbs, and other information
sources.  Contact: The California Technology Project, P.O. Box 3842,
Seal Beach, CA 90740-7842.
- Hyper-G
........................................................................
Definition: Hyper-G is a large-scale, multi-user distributed hypermedia
information system.  >Hyper-G via WWW:  Hyper-G gateway at Graz Univ.
of Technology (http://iicm.tu-graz.ac.at:80/ROOT).
- Hytelnet
........................................................................
Definition: Hytelnet provides access to a database of Internet telnet
connects through hypertext (on network or TSR for DOS).  >Hytelnet
info/EARN:  information and overview of Hytlenet, from European
Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/hytelnet.html).
>Hytelnet source:  includes source for PC, Macintosh, Unix, and VMS;
Peter Scott's Hypertext database of publicly accessible Internet sites
(ftp://ftp.usask.ca/pub/hytelnet/).
>Hytelnet via telnet:  from the University of Arizona
(telnet://[e-mail]).
>Hytelnet via gopher:  from Washington University in St. Louis
(gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/11/internet/hytelnet).
>Hytelnet via WWW:  from the University of Kansas
(http://www.cc.ukans.edu/hytelnet_html/START.TXT.html).
>Hytelnet search:  given a keyword, returns Hytelnet entries
(gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3004/7).
>Hytelnet Web search:  search all Hytelnet resource entries, via a web
form, from Galaxy (http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/HYTELNET.html).
- Internet-in-a-box
........................................................................
Definition: Internet-in-a-box $ gives you graphical user interface
access on PCs (standalone or LAN) to news, gopher, mail, telnet, ftp,
from O'Reilly/Spry.  >Internet-in-a-box:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Body:
help).
>Internet In a Box web:  (http://www.spry.com/intabox.html).
- Minuet
........................................................................
Definition: Minuet is graphical interface integrating email, gopher,
telnet, Usenet news, and ftp.  >Minuet FAQ:  Minnesota Internet Users
Essential Tool Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/minuet-faq).
- Mosaic
........................................................................
Definition: Mosaic is a client for network distributed hypermedia
information and discovery.  >Mosaic home page:  describes Mosaic,
Internet information browser and World Wide Web client
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html).
>Mosaic FAQ:
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/mosaic-faq.html).
>Mosaic:  description of how to download and run NCSA Mosaic
(ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/README.Mosaic).
>Mosaic paper:  NCSA Mosaic Technical Summary, by Marc Andreessen
(ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/mosaic-papers/mosaic.ps.Z).
>Mosaic article:  an HTML version of a New York Times article about
Mosaic by John Markoff
(http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~kluster/markoff.html).
>Amiga Mosaic:  (http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/AMosaic/home.html).
>Mosaic:  bring up Mosaic on system with client installed
(unix:mosaic).
- Lynx
........................................................................
Definition: Lynx is an ASCII terminal browser for the World Wide Web.
>Lynx info:  (ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx/).
>Lynx Web info:  Welcome to Lynx and the world of the web
(http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_lynx/www_start.html).
- Netscape
........................................................................
Definition: Netscape is a WWW browser for MS Windows, Macintosh, and
X.  >Netscape Communications:  home page of Netscape Communications
Universe, developers of Netscape (http://mosaic.mcom.com).
>Netscape news:  information about the free release of Netscape
(http://mosaic.mcom.com/info/index.html).
>Netscape source:  FTP site for Netscape source
(ftp://ftp.mcom.com/netscape/).
- Samba
........................................................................
Definition: Samba is a Macintosh browser for the World Wide Web.
>Samba source:  (ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/www/bin/mac/).
>Samba Status:
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Macintosh/Status.html).
- SlipKnot
........................................................................
Definition: a Windows-based graphical WWW browser which does NOT
require SLIP or PPP or TCP/IP.  Note: restricted shareware >SlipKnot
home page:  (http://www.interport.net/slipknot/slipknot.html).
- Viola
........................................................................
Definition: Viola is a World Wide Web hypermedia browser for X Window
System.  >Viola info:  (ftp://ora.com/pub/www/viola/).
- Willow
........................................................................
Definition: Willow is a graphical user interface to text-based
bibliographic databases, WWW, and Z39.50.  >Willow:  Washington
Information Looker-upper Layered Over Windows
(http://www.cac.washington.edu/willow/home.html).
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* Section -3- CMC = COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
========================================================================
o Interpersonal
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Email
........................................................................
Definition: Email allows a user to send message(s) to another user (or
many users via mailing lists).  >Email How:  Introduction to Sending
and Receiving Electronic Mail
(ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/nic/network.service.guides/how.to.email.guide).
>SMTP:  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0821.txt).
>Email 101:  describes how to use email as well as other Internet
features, by John Goodwin
(ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/etext/etext93/email025.txt).
>Finding Email addresses:  how do I find someone's email address?
(ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/libsoft/email_address.txt).
>College Email addresses:  information on email addresses at colleges
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/soc.college/).
>InterNetwork Mail:  methods of sending mail from one network to
another, by John Chew and Scott Yanoff
(ftp://csd4.csd.uwm.edu/pub/internetwork-mail-guide).
>InterNetwork Mail guide via WWW:
(http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl).
>Email info:  repository of types of email interfaces and tools
(ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/).
>Email demo:  Unix (UCB) mail command (unix:mail [e-mail]).
>Email services:  a variety of services offered through an email
account, by Doug Langley; please don't overuse
(mailto:[e-mail]  Subject: "#help").
>POPmail:  (ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/POPmail/).
>Eudora email:  for Mac and Windows (ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/).
>Eudora info:
(http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/doc/micro08.html).
>MetaMail:  multimedia (ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/README).
>Hypermail:  An EMail to HTML compiler
(http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/hypermail.html).
>MIME:  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
(http://sodom.mt.cs.cmu.edu/toad-ht/mime.html).
>MIME:  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions--RFC 1521 and RFC 1522
(http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html).
>Pine info center:  links to various Pine help texts, the FAQ, feature
descriptions, discussion archives and the files to download
(http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/).
>PGP Mail:  Pretty Good Privacy, a public key encryption package
(ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/security/pgp/).
>PGP/PEM:  allow you to communicate in a way which does not allow third
parties to read messages, certify that the person who sent the message
is really who they claim they are
(http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/PEMPGP.html).
>PEM:  Privacy Enhanced Email (ftp://ftp.tis.com/pub/PEM/FAQ).
>RIPEM:  Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail
(http://cs.indiana.edu/ripem/dir.html).
- Talk
........................................................................
Definition: Talk provides real-time interactive text with another
user.  >Talk man page:  Unix manual page for talk (unix:man talk).
>Talk demo:  where [e-mail] is known (unix:talk
[e-mail]).
- ZTalk
........................................................................
Definition: Ztalk provides a low-bandwidth voice communication over
tcp/ip networks.  >Ztalk:  TCP/IP Voice Communication home page
(http://alfred1.u.washington.edu:8080/~roland/ztalk.html).
>Ztalk source:  (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/talk/).
o Group
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Collage
........................................................................
Definition: Collage is a client/server group collaboration system which
includes shared dialogue, text, and graphics spaces, from NCSA.
>Collage source:  for Mac, PC, and X, from NCSA
(ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Collage/).
- CU-SeeMe
........................................................................
Definition: CU-SeeMe is a real-time, multiparty video-conferencing
system for the Internet.  >CU-SeeMe info:  includes source code, and
information (FAQ), from Cornell University
(ftp://gated.cornell.edu/pub/video).
>CU-SeeMe use:  CU-SeeMe Video conferencing experiments
(http://www.ludvigsen.dhhalden.no/webdoc/video.html).
- Haven
........................................................................
Definition: A Haven is a network chat program that allows many people
to talk to each other at once.  >Haven info:  a repository of
documents, source code, logs and other information
(ftp://kidd.vet.purdue.edu/pub/haven/).
>Haven newsgroup:  (news:alt.internet.talk.haven).
- Lily
........................................................................
Definition: Lily is a real-time text-based group conferencing system.
>Lily information:  ftp site for Lily information, includes
documentation and source code (ftp://lily.acm.rpi.edu/pub/lily).
- Listproc
........................................................................
Definition: Listproc is a system that automates mailing lists and
archives.  >Listproc info:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help
listproc).
>Anastasios Kotsikonas:  Listproc creator (mailto:[e-mail]).
- LISTSERV
........................................................................
Definition: LISTSERV is a mailing-list program for group
communication.  >LISTSERV definition:  the help file for listserv
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: send listserv memo).
>LISTSERV info/EARN:  from European Academic Research Network
Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/listserv.html).
>LISTSERV tips:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get listserv
tips).
>LISTSERV searching:  tips on searching a listserv discussion for
information (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get database
search).
>LISTSERV managing:  How to Start and Manage a BITNET LISTSERV
Discussion Group, by Kovacs, McCarty, and Kovacs
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get kovacs prv2n1).
>LISTSERV tips:  List Management Tips for LISTSERV Postmasters and List
Owners, by Lisa M. Covi (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get
listserv tips).
>LISTSERV guide:  The Listserv Guide for General Users
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get lsvguide memo).
>PAML:  Publicly Available Mailing Lists, by Stephanie da Silva
(http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml).
>Search LISTSERV:  search for interesting email lists to join
(http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/lists).
>Search LISTSERV WAIS:  WAIS-based search for a Usenet and LISTSERV
conferences (wais://munin.ub2.lu.se:210/academic_email_conf).
>Search LISTSERV gopher:  searching and retrieval of archived LISTSERV
messages
(gopher://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu:70/11/library/disciplines/library/listgopher).
>Dartmouth Merged SIGL:  Special Interest Group Lists
(ftp://dartcms1.dartmouth.edu/siglists/).
>Electronic Conferences:  Directory of Scholarly Electronic
Conferences, by Diane K. Kovacs (ftp://ksuvxa.kent.edu/library/).
>Search Academic Conferences:
(wais://munin.ub2.lu.se:210/academic_email_conf).
- Majordomo
........................................................................
Definition: Majordomo is a mailing list manager.  >Majordomo:
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help).
>Brent Chapman:  creator of Majordomo (mailto:[e-mail]).
>Majordomo Problems:  (mailto:[e-mail]).
- Maven
........................................................................
Definition: Maven is a Mac-based audioconferencing tool.  >Maven Info:
a Mac-based audioconferencing tool; powerful when used in conjunction
with, Cornell's CU-SeeMe
(http://pipkin.lut.ac.uk/WWWdocs/LUTCHI/misc/maven.html).
>Maven source:  (ftp://k12.cnidr.org/pub/Mac/).
- MU* = Multiple-User Dialogue/Domain/Dungeon
........................................................................
Definition: MU*s are real-time interaction systems (usually text)
traditionally used for social role-playing.  Note: Variants include
MUD, MUCK, MUSH, MUSE, MOO.  Definition: A MOO is an object-oriented
Multiple User Dialogue (MUD).  >MU* types:  a discussion of differnet
kinds of MU*s, by Eli Burke
(http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/soc/mud_types.html).
>MUD FAQ:  frequently asked questions and answers about MUDs
(ftp://ftp.math.okstate.edu/pub/muds/misc/mud-faq/).
>MUD Archive:  documents pertaining to the history of MUDS, by Lauren
P. Burka (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/USER/lpb/muddex.html).
>MUD resources:  includes many resources, documentation, general
information, by Lydia Leong
(http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html).
>MUD research:  includes archives of Notes, Papers (archives from MIT,
MediaMOO, Xerox PARC), and References
(gopher://actlab.rtf.utexas.edu/11/MUD/Research).
>MUD/Lysators:  Info about Lysators MUDs, and MUDs in general
(http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/nobw/mud/main.html).
>MediaMoo:  example of a MOO at MIT's Media Lab
(telnet://purple-crayon.media.mit.edu:8888).
>Diversity University:  example of MOO used for education
(telnet://erau.db.erau.edu:8888).
>Moo/Web-JHM:  Jay's House Moo, a Moo with some Web access and
interaction (http://jh.ccs.neu.edu:7043).
>Moo/Web(Mosaic)-WAXWEB:  Mosaic users can interact with a Moo
(http://bug.village.virginia.edu:7777).
>Moo Gopher blurb:  a short description of Moo gopher at Jay's House
Moo (ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/unite/files/jays_house.txt).
>Moo info:  a collection of MOO information, answers, documentation,
paper archives (gopher://actlab.rtf.utexas.edu/11/MUD/MOO).
>Moo papers/Xerox:  a collection of information and papers about Moos
(ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO).
>Moo papers/MIT:  information and papers from MIT Lab's MediaMOO
(ftp://media.mit.edu/pub/MediaMOO).
>Yahoo List:
(http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Entertainment/Games/MUDs__MUSHes__MUSEs__MOOs__etc_/).
>MUD Announcements:  an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup for general
announcements related to MU*s (news:rec.games.mud.announce).
>MUD Administration:  an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup for MU*
administration issues (news:rec.games.mud.admin).
>MUD Miscellaneous:  an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup for miscellaneous
MU* issues (news:rec.games.mud.misc).
- Procmail
........................................................................
Definition: Procmail is a mail manager--create mail-servers, mailing
lists, sort your incoming mail.  >Procmail source:
(ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/).
>Procmail mailinglist:
(mailto:[e-mail]).
- WIT = Web Interactive Talk
........................................................................
Definition: Web Interactive Talk is a means to create a shared
discussion space in hypertext on a number of topics and threads.
>WIT:  W3 Interactive Talk, a forms-based discussion system
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/WIT/User/Overview.html).
>Example WIT session:  an example of a WIT, branching off into many
threads (http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Discussion).
- WW = Web World
........................................................................
Definition: A Web World is a virtual community enabled by the
interactive HTML Forms (Interactive Webbing, see below).  >WebWorld:
an example of a WW--allows users to create structures and link these to
any resource on the Net
(http://sailfish.peregrine.com/ww/welcome.html).
- Yarn
........................................................................
Definition: Yarn is a text-based networked meeting system.  >Yarn web:
Yarn User Manual (http://dstc.bond.edu.au:91776/YarnMan.html).
o Mass
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ICB = Internet Citizen's Band
........................................................................
Definition: ICB is an internet teleconferencing application which
allows Internet users to communicate.  >ICB web:  information about ICB
(http://www.echo.com/~kzin/icb.html).
>ICB FAQ:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: get icb-social
ICB-FAQ).
- IW = Interactive Webbing
........................................................................
Definition: Interactive Webbing gives people a common space for network
distributed multimedia writing.  >Free For All:  an example of
IW--allows user to place an entry in a list of WWW entries (not known
to be operational 19 Aug 94)
(http://south.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8241/Free.html).
>Related Projects:  some other WWW projects that let readers see
feedback from others
(http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/hypernews/related.html).
>Ping:  a global communication experiment in multimedia created by
users (http://www.artcom.de/ping/mapper).
- IRC = Internet Relay Chat
........................................................................
Definition: IRC provides real-time, many-many text discussion divided
into channels.  >IRC definition:  Internet Relay Chat Protocol, by
Oikarinen and Reed (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1459.txt).
>IRC Web:  includes an overview, client/server pointers, and general
information, by Helen Trillian Rose (http://www.kei.com/irc.html).
>IRC info:  includes frequently asked questions and answers list from
newsgroup, IRCprimers, tutorials
(ftp://cs.bu.edu/irc/support/alt-irc-faq).
>IRC sources/Larsson:  IRC related documents and other sources of
information, by Jonas Larsson
(http://eru.dd.chalmers.se/home/f88jl/Irc/ircdocs.html).
>IRC Library:  pointers to IRC-rleated information, picture database,
archives, etc., by Nicolas, Pioch
(http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/IRC/IRC.html).
>IRC guide:  Basic Guide to IRC
(ftp://dorm.rutgers.edu/pub/Internet.documents/irc.basic.guide).
>IRC connections:  some example IRC sites available via telnet (if you
don't have an IRC client yet)
(http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/irc/connect.html).
>IRC discussion:  an unmoderated Usenet discussion about IRC
(news:alt.irc).
>IRC recovery:  an umoderated Usenet discussion group about weaning
oneself off of IRC (news:alt.irc.recovery).
- ITR = Internet Talk Radio
........................................................................
Definition: ITR is an audio multicast on the Internet.  >ITR FAQ:
Frequently Asked Questions on ITR (Usenet FAQ)
(ftp://rftm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-talk-radio/).
>ITR FAQ via email:  Frequently Asked Questions on ITR
(mailto:[e-mail]).
>ITR ftp site:  Internet Talk Radio information, including intro and
FAQ (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/talk-radio/).
>ITR Web:  general information, and connections to broadcast archives
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html).
>ITR sites:  a partial listing of places to download ITR information
and broadcasts (mailto:[e-mail]).
>ITR discussion:  an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about ITR
(news:alt.internet.talk-radio).
- Mbone
........................................................................
Definition: Mbone is a live audio and video multicast virtual network
on top of Internet.  >MBONE Home Page:
(http://www.eit.com/techinfo/mbone/mbone.html).
>Mbone FAQ (text):  Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP
(ftp://venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt).
>Mbone FAQ Web:  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast
Backbone (MBONE) (http://www.research.att.com/mbone-faq.html).
>Mbone Tools:  lists suite of tools used with Mbone
(http://www.eit.com/techinfo/mbone/mbone.html).
>Mbone Intro:  (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/mbone_review.html).
- Usenet
........................................................................
Definition: USENET provides asynchronous text discussion on many topics
separated into newsgroups.  >USENET description:  What is Usenet?
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/what-is-usenet/).
>USENET FAQs:  collection of frequently answer questions and answers
about Usenet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/).
>Usenet guide:  An Introduction to Usenet News and the trn Newsreader,
by Jon Bell (http://ocf.berkeley.edu/pub/trnint-3.3.html).
>USENET info/EARN:  from European Academic Research Network Association
(EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/usenet.html).
>USENET documentation:  special issue of Amateur Computerist Newsletter
about Usenet (ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/acn/acn4-5.txt.Z).
>NNTP:  Network News Transfer Protocol, by Kantor and Lapsley (February
1986) (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0977.txt).
>Usenet FAQs/rtfm:  news.groups FAQ directory
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.groups/).
>Usenet FAQs/hyper:  a hypertext list of all USENET FAQs found in
news.answers
(http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html).
>Usenet filter:  personalized netnews delivery service
(http://woodstock.stanford.edu:2000).
>Usenet filter:  personalized netnews delivery service
(mailto:[e-mail]  Body: help).
>Usenet post via email:  post to newsgroup via email
(mailto:[e-mail]  Subject: Your Subject
Body: Your Contents).
>Usenet via WWW:  access newsgroups via WWW
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/News/Groups/Overview.html).
>Usenet connections:  publicly accessible news servers, including
gopher access to Usenet, by Arnold Lesikar (list removed; however,
instructions are given on how to locate these)
(gopher://tigger.stcloud.msus.edu:79/0lesikar).
>Usenet periodics:  list of Usenet periodic postings
(gopher://stavanger.sgp.slb.com:79/0nichol).
>Usenet posters:  find when and from what host person with name FIRST
LAST posted to Usenet (mailto:[e-mail]  Body: send
usenet-addresses/FIRST LAST).
>Discussion Beginners:  for people new to USENET
(news:news.announce.newusers).
>Discussion humor:  an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about
humorous Usenet posts (news:alt.humor.best-of-usenet).
>Discussion culture:  an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about
Usenet practices, people, issues (news:alt.culture.usenet).
>Usenet reader:  nn, xrn)mand for hosts with newsreader, rn (other
readers (unix:rn newsgroup-name).
o Interfaces
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- exMOO
........................................................................
Definition: exMOO is a graphical user interface to a MU* >ExMOO Home
Page:  (http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/exMOO/HOME.html).
- htMUD
........................................................................
Definition: htMUD is a distributed graphical tinymud combining telnet
and web forms client windows.  >htMUD Home Page:
(http://www.elf.com/~phi/htmud.html).
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* Section -4- STANDARDS
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Protocols and standards are the basis for operating tools and forums on
the Internet. In this section, I summarize some sources of information
about Internet and other protocols. Protocols associated with
individual tools are listed with the tools above.
o Collections
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>ASN.1:  resources for the ASN.1 language, by Philipp Hoschka
(http://zenon.inria.fr:8003/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/hoschka.html).
>Internet Protocols/NRL:  listings of working groups and information
about protocols--applications, internet, next generation, network
management, operational requirements, routing, security, and much more,
from Naval Research Lab
(http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/Internet.html).
>Internet STDs:  Internet Standards, sub-series of notes within the RFC
series which document Internet standards
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/std/).
>MM Survey List:  Distributed Multimedia Survey Standards List,
includes CCITT/ISO, Internet, Proprietary
(http://cui_www.unige.ch/OSG/MultimediaInfo/mmsurvey/standards.html).
>Organizations:  players in setting technical standards for
telecommunications and networking
(http://www.rpi.edu/Internet/Guides/decemj/icmc/organizations-standards.html).
>Protocols:  Computers-Software-Protocols category from Yahoo
(http://akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo/Computers/Software/Protocols/).
>Standards List/LLNL:  Documentation from Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (http://www-atp.llnl.gov/atp/standards.html).
o Internet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>HTTP:  a protocol for networked information
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html).
>IP:  Internet Protocol
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0791.txt).
>Kerberos:  network authentication system for physically insecure
networks (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.kerberos/).
>NFS:  Network File System will mount remote file systems across
homogeneous and heterogeneous systems
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.nfs/).
>PC-MAC TCP/IP + NFS FAQ:  by Rawn Shah
(ftp://ftp.rtd.com/pub/tcpip/pcnfsfaq.txt).
>PC-MAC TCP/IP + NFS FAQ WWW:  by Rawn Shah
(ftp://www.rtd.com/pcnfsfaq/faq.html).
>PC-NFS:  (ftp://ftp.york.ac.uk/pub/pc/pc-nfs/FAQ/).
>PPP:  Internet Standard for transmission of IP packets over serial
lines (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.ppp/).
>PPP FAQ:  comp.protocols.ppp frequently wanted information
(http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/faq.html).
>SIPP:  Simple Internet Protocol Plus (SIPP) is one of the candidates
being considered by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for the
next version of the Internet Protocol
(http://town.hall.org/sipp/sipp-main.html).
>SLIP:  Serial Line Internet Protocol
(ftp://vtucs.cc.vt.edu/filebox/nyman/whatslip.txt).
>SNMP FAQ:  Simple Network Management Protocol Usenet FAQ
(ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.snmp/).
>SNMP Web:  the SNMP project group at the University of Twente (the
Netherlands), develops a freely-available implementation of SNMP
(http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl).
>SOCKS:  A proxy server for IP hosts behind firewalls
(ftp://ftp.nec.com/pub/security/socks.cstc/What_Is_SOCKS.CSTC).
>TCP:  Transmission Control Protocol
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0793.txt).
>TCP-IP FAQ:  (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.tcp-ip/).
>Winsock:  accessing the Internet using tcp/ip applications under
Microsoft Windows
(ftp://nebula.lib.vt.edu/pub/windows/winsock/wtcpip03.asc).
>Winsock FAQ:  (mailto:[e-mail]  Subject: faq).
o Other
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>ACC:  anonymous credit card (ACC) protocol, used for anonymous funds
xfer and delivery on the Internet
(ftp://research.att.com/dist/anoncc/accinet.ps.Z).
>EPIC:  Effects Protocol for Interactive Communications, a proposal
designed to provide enhanced formatting, display control for
interaction interactive internet communications
(http://netcom7.netcom.com/pub/stewarta/html/stewarta.html).
>HTML FAQ:  hypertext markup language
(http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~ec/www/html_faq.html).
>HTML+:  (http://info.cern.ch/pub/www/dev/htmlplus.dtd).
>ISO Protocols:  newsgroup (news:comp.protocols.iso).
>ISO FAQ:  (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.protocols.iso/).
>OSI:  Open Systems Interconnection protocols
(ftp://rftm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/osi-protocols).
>OSI/GOSIP Protocols:  (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/GOSIP.html).
>Other Protocols:  XTP, HIPPI, Fibre Channel
(http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/OP.html).
>Telecom stds:  International Standards for telecommunication
(ftp://rftm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/standards-faq).
>Unicode:  a Character Encoding Standard, a 16-bit set to encode all of
the characters used for written languages throughout the world
(ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/user-supported/reader/text/standards/unicode/unicode.std.z).
>URI/URL/URN/URC:  Addressing for the WWW
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html).
>URL guide:  A Beginner's Guide to URLs
(http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html).
>URL syntax:  Uniform Resource Locator Syntax
(http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html).
>X.400:  a set of ISO/CCITT standards that defines electronic mail, the
only non-proprietary standard for interchange of electronic mail that
has the sanction of an official standards body
(ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/pub/user-supported/reader/text/standards/X.400/).
>Z39.50 W3 Page:  (http://www.vtls.com/market/z39/z39page.html).
>Z39.50 Resources:  a reference point for resources related to the
Information Retrieval Service and Protocol standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.50
(http://ds.internic.net/z3950/z3950.html).
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* Section -5- REFERENCES
========================================================================
>Internet Tools EARN:  The Guide to Network Resource Tools, from
European Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(ftp://ns.ripe.net/earn/earn-resource-tool-guide.txt).
>Internet Tools EARN/WWW:  The Guide to Network Resource Tools, from
European Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
(http://www.earn.net/gnrt/notice.html).
>Internet Tools NIR:  A status report on networked information
retrieval tools and groups
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi_25.txt).
>Internet Systems UNITE:
(ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/unite/files/systems-list.txt).
>Net Mgt Tools:  Tools for Monitoring and Debugging TCP/IP Internets
and Interconnected Devices
(ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi_02.txt).
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