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EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and
Everything...

Texinfo Edition 2.3, September 1994


by Adam Gaffin with Jorg Heitkotter

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  * EFF's Guide to the Internet License
      + Distribution Policy
  * G'day, folks!
  * Welcome
  * Foreword
  * Subject: "A Superhighway through the Wasteland?"
  * Preface
  * Setting up and Jacking in
      + Ready, Set...
      + Go!
      + Public-Access Internet Providers
          o Alabama
          o Alaska
          o Alberta
          o Arizona
          o British Columbia
          o California
          o Colorado
          o Delaware
          o Florida
          o Illinois
          o Maryland
          o Massachusetts
          o Michigan
          o New Hampshire
          o New Jersey
          o New York
          o North Carolina
          o Ohio
          o Ontario
          o Oregon
          o Pennsylvania
          o Quebec
          o Rhode Island
          o Texas
          o Utah
          o Virginia
          o Washington, DC
          o Washington State
          o Germany
          o Italy
          o United Kingdom
          o Australia
      + 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
          o America Online
          o ATTMail
          o Bitnet
          o CompuServe
          o Delphi
          o Fidonet
          o GEnie
          o MCIMail
          o Peacenet
          o Prodigy
      + Seven UNIX Commands you can't live without:
          o 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
          o Craig Shergold
          o The Modem Tax
          o 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
          o Agriculture
          o AIDS
          o Amateur Radio
          o Animals
          o Calculators
          o Chemistry
          o Congress
          o Conversation
          o Copyright Law
          o Current Events
          o Dictionary
          o Environment
          o Geography
          o Government
          o Health
          o Hiring and College Program Information
          o History
          o Mexico
          o Quotations
          o Religion
          o Ski Reports
          o Space
          o Supreme Court Decisions
          o Telnet Addresses
          o Thesaurus
          o Time
          o Transportation
          o Weather
      + Telnet Bulletin-Board Systems
          o Cimarron
          o Cleveland Free-Net
          o Dialog
          o DUBBS
          o ISCA BBS
          o Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
          o Youngstown Free-Net
      + 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
          o Amiga
          o Atari
          o Books
          o Computer Ethics
          o Consumer
          o Cooking
          o Economics
          o Esperanto
          o Evolutionary Computation
          o FTP Addresses
          o Government
          o History
          o Hong Kong
          o Internet
          o Law
          o Libraries
          o Literature
          o Macintosh
          o Movie Reviews
          o MS-DOS
          o Music
          o Native Americans
          o Pets
          o Pictures
          o Photography
          o Religion
          o Science Fiction
          o Sex
          o Shakespeare
          o Space
          o TeX
          o TV
          o Travel
          o Usenet
          o Viruses
          o Weather
          o X Windows
      + 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
          o Agriculture
          o Amimals
          o Architecture
          o Art
          o Astronomy
          o Census
          o Computers
          o Disability
          o Environment
          o Entomology
          o Geology
          o Government
          o Health
          o History
          o Internet
          o Israel
          o Japan
          o Music
          o Nature
          o Sports
          o Weather
          o More 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
          o K12Net
          o AskERIC
          o SpaceMet
          o Kidsphere
          o Health-Ed:
          o Knoxville News-Sentinel Online
          o Hemingway
          o MicroMUSE
          o NASA Spacelink
          o Newton
          o OERI
          o More Educational Resources
      + 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:
  * Preserving and Promoting the "Internet Culture" by Peter Deutsch
  * 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
          o Information Infrastructure
          o Civil Liberties
          o Legal Services
          o Community Building
      + How to connect to EFF?
          o Internet and USENET
          o The WELL
          o CompuServe
          o America Online
      + Membership in the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  * Internet Connectivity
  * 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:
          o Snail Mail Addresses
          o E-Mail and List server Addresses
          o FTP'able & Gopher'able Addresses
  * E-mail Addresses
  * Internet Sites
  * Commands, Suffixes & Tools
  * General Index