Template-Type: DOCUMENT Category: General Guide Title: Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet Author-Name: Adam Gaffin Author-Organization-Name: Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass. Author-Job-Title: Senior Reporter Author-Email: "Adam Gaffin" Author-Name: Joerg Heitkoetter Author-Organization-Name: University of Dortmund Author-Organization-Type: University Author-Department: Department of Computer Science System Analysis Research Group, LSXI Author-Email: "Joerg Heitkoetter" Record-Last-Modified-Date: 27 Sep 1993 Record-Last-Modified-Name: Hans Maurer Record-Last-Modified-Email: "Hans Maurer" Version: 1.01 Description: This guide is 222 European A4 size pages in length, (i.e. US-letter size pages) and is divided into the following sections: * A 3 part Introduction - Welcome by Shari Steele (and the Texinfo editor) - Forward by Mitchell Kapor, Co-founder of EFF - Preface by Adam Gaffin * A 12 part Walk-trough-the-Internet Chapter 1 -- Setting up, Getting connected, Jacking in... Chapter 2 -- Electronic Mail Chapter 3 -- Usenet: the Global Watering Hole Chapter 4 -- Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles Chapter 5 -- Mailing Lists and Bitnet Chapter 6 -- Telnet (Mining the Net, part I) Chapter 7 -- FTP (Mining the Net, part II) Chapter 8 -- Gophers, WAISs, and the World-Wide Web Chapter 9 -- Advanced E-mail Chapter 10 -- News of the World Chapter 11 -- IRC, MUDs, and other things... Chapter 12 -- Education on the Net * A 4 part Afterword - "Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin - "A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold - "A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling - "Subject: A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand * A Bibliography - Paperware on the Internet: A comprehensive list of over 200 (sic!) literary references of books, papers, magazines, newspaper bits, and electronically published texts, all of them related to the Internet and similar topics. * 4 Appendices - An appendix on Internet Jargon - An appendix by Ms. Emily Postnews - An appendix on The Electronic Frontier Foundation - An appendix on Internet Country Codes (ISO 3166) * 4 Indices - E-mail addresses mentioned - Internet Sites mentioned - Commands, Suffixes, and Tools mentioned - General Index Publication-Status: Published Publisher-Organization-Name: Electronic Frontier Foundation Publisher-Organization-Type: Non profit organisation Publisher-Organization-Postal: 1001 G Street, N.W., Suite 950 East Publisher-Organization-City: Washington, DC 20001 Publisher-Organization-Country: USA Publisher-Organization-Email: eff@eff.org Publisher-Organization-Fax: +1-202-393-5509 Publisher-Organization-Phone: +1-202-347-5400 Copyright: GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Creation-Date: 20 Sep 1993 Discussion: comp.org.eff.talk Keywords: Internet, Guide, EFF, Electronic Mail, Usenet, Telnet, FTP, Gopher, WAIS, WWW, IRC, MUD Pathname-v0: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide.txt.gz Format-v0: ASCII (original version) Size-v0: 123888 Pathname-v1: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide.sit.hqx.gz Format-v1: HyperCard (original version) Size-v1: 216936 Pathname-v2: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-1.01.dvi.gz Format-v2: TeX DVI Size-v2: 319162 Pathname-v3: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-1.01.html.tar.gz Format-v3: HTML Size-v3: 217654 Pathname-v4: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-1.01.info.gz Format-v4: GNU INFO Size-v4: 213964 Pathname-v5: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-1.01.ps.gz Format-v5: Postscript Size-v5: 400987 Pathname-v6: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-1.01.tar.gz Format-v6: Texinfo Size-v6: 272787 Pathname-v7: /pub/comp/doc/networking/big-dummys-guide/big-dummys-guide-texi/bdgtti-1.01.txt.gz Format-v7: ASCII Size-v7: 204152