Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything..., Texinfo Edition 2.2, February 1994

by Adam Gaffin with Jörg Heitkötter

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G'day, folks!
Welcome
Foreword
"Subject: A Superhighway through the Wasteland?"
Preface
Setting up and Jacking in
- Ready, Set...
- Go!
- Public-Access Internet Providers
- If your Town doesn't have Direct Access
- Net Origins
- How it Works
- When things go wrong
- FYI:
Electronic Mail
- The Basics
- ELM -- A better way
- PINE -- An even better way
- Smileys
- E-Mail to other Networks
- Seven UNIX Commands you can't live without:
  - Wildcards
- When things go wrong:
- FYI:
Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
- The Global Watering Hole
- Navigating Usenet with nn
- nn Commands
- Using rn
- rn Commands
- Essential Newsgroups
- Speaking up
- Cross-posting
Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles
- Flame, Blather and Spew
- Killfiles -- The cure for all that ails you
- Some Usenet hints
- The Brain-tumor Boy and the Modem Tax an the Chain Letter
- Big Sig
- The First Amendment as Local Ordinance
- Usenet History
- When things go wrong:
- FYI:
Mailing Lists and Bitnet
- Internet Mailing Lists
- Bitnet Lists
Telnet (Mining the Net, part I)
- Mining the Net
- Library Catalogs
- Some Interesting Telnet Sites
- Telnet Bulletin-Board Systems
- Putting the Finger on Someone
- Finding Someone on the Net
- When things go wrong:
- FYI:
FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
- Tons of Files
- Your Friend Archie
- Getting the Files
- Odd Letters -- Decoding File Endings
- The Keyboard Cabal
- Some Interesting FTP Sites
- ncftp -- Now You Tell Me!
- Project Gutenberg -- Electronic Books
- When things go wrong:
- FYI:
Gophers, WAISs and the World-Wide Web
- Gophers
- Burrowing Deeper
- Gopher Commands
- Some Interesting Gophers
- Wide-Area Information Servers
- World-Wide Web
- Clients, or how to snare more on the Web
- When Things Go Wrong
- FYI:
Advanced E-mail
- The File's in the Mail
- Receiving Files
- Sending Files to Non-Internet Sites
- Getting FTP Files via E-Mail
- The all knowing Oracle
News of the World
- Clarinet: UPI, Dave Barry and Dilbert
- Reuters
- USA Today
- The World Today, from Belarus to Brazil
- E-Mailing News Organizations
- FYI:
IRC, MUDs and other things that are more fun than they sound
- Talk
- Internet Relay Chat
- IRC Commands
- IRC in Times of Crisis
- MUDs
- Go, Go, Go (and Chess, too)!
- The other Side of the Coin
- FYI:
Education and the Net
- The Net in the Classroom
- Some Specific Resources for Students and Teachers
- Usenet and Bitnet in the Classroom
- FYI:
Business on the Net
- Setting Up Shop
- FYI
"Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin
"A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold
- A Cybernaut's Eye View
- Social Contracts, Reciprocity, and Gift Economies in Cyberspace
- Who Is The WELL?
- My Neighborhood On The WELL
- FYI:
"A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling
- FYI:
"Subject: TIME article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
"Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand
The Lingo
Dear Emily Postnews
EFF Information
- General Information About the EFF
- How to connect to EFF?
- Membership in the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Internet Country Codes
- Description of codes
- Networks which are not included
- Updates
- .us sites
- .edu, .com, etc.
- UK and GB domains
- Main nameservers
- Archiving
- ISO 3166 Codes & Top level domains
- Disclaimer
The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
- Basic Smileys
- Widely used Smileys
- Midget Smileys
- Mega Smileys
- Usenet Smileys
- Emotional Smileys
Paperware on the Net
- Hardcover & Softcover Publications
- Journal Articles and Papers
- Cyberspace-related News bits
- Electronically published Texts
- FYI:
E-mail Addresses
Internet Sites
Commands, Suffixes & Tools
General Index