Internet Tools Summary

December Communications, Inc. (john@december.com )

1996 by December Communications, Inc. (john@december.com ). You may use this document for any personal or educational purpose. For-profit distribution requires permission.

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 comments 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 "principal use" categories, e.g., telnet is used mostly for NIR, and email is commonly used for CMC (although both have 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 services.) 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.december.com/net/tools/index.html

Information about updates to or different formats of this document:

• John December: contact for comments, corrections, updates: mail john@december.com

Notes

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.december.com/net/tools/use-itools.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)

Formats

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.december.com/net/tools/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.december.com/net/tools/index.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)

Utilities

• Finger

  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: : mail dlangley@netcom.com Subject: #finger USER@HOST.DOMAIN"
  • 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://ftp.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/pub/cs/distribs/netfind/)
  • Netfind via Web: (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/netfind.html)
  • Netfind via telnet: using telnet to find someone on the Internet (telnet://netfind@ds.internic.net) Login as : netfind
• Nslookup

  Definition: Nslookup is an interactive program to query Internet domain name servers (gives IP address).

  • Nslookup form: (http://www.law.utexas.edu/staff/tom/nslook.html)
  • 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: a Ping product for Windows (http://www.netmanage.com/netmanage/apps/ping.html)
  • Ping demo: check to see if host uwm.edu is up and roundtrip time: unix /usr/etc/ping -s uwm.edu
• 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: : mail mailserv@ds.internic.net Body: "whois DOMAIN"
  • Whois via gopher: enter HOST.DOMAIN to query (gopher://ds.internic.net: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)

Tools

• 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: mail dave@case50.ncsl.nist.gov
• Archie

  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://archie@archie.ans.net) Login as : archie
  • 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: mail archie@archie.unl.edu Body: "help"
• Astra

  Definition: Astra retrieve documents from databases.

  • Astra Help: the help file for Astra: mail astradb@icnucevm.bitnet Body: "help"
  • Astra documentation: Astra User Guide: mail astradb@icnucevm.bitnet Body: "GET META DOCUMENT"
• Bitftp

  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

  Definition: Essence is a resource discovery system using indexes.

  • Essence FAQ: The distribution includes the following files and directories (ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/essence/FAQ.txt)
  • Essence documents: Essence -- A Resource Discovery System Based on Semantic File Indexing (ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/cs/distribs/essence/)
  • Harvest: this includes the essence software (ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/distribs/harvest/)
• FSP = File Service Protocol

  Definition: FSP is a connectionless protocol for transferring files.

  • FSP FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about FSP (http://itu.rdg.ac.uk/misc/fsp/faq/faq.htm)
  • FSP INFO: an overview and description of FSP (ftp://ftp.germany.eu.net/pub/networking/inet/fsp/)
  • FSP Web: information on FSP (http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/fsp.html)
  • FSP Server lists: FSP Site Database (http://www.cybernet.it/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: 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.: mail ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com 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 collects searchable menu information from an individual Gopher server.

  • 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

  Definition: Maltshop builds a veronica-access menu on your local gopher server.

  • Maltshop script: (ftp://veronica.scs.unr.edu/veronica-code/)
• Netserv

  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: mail netserv@frmop11.bitnet 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.

  • Project description: Soft Pages Project, by Johannsen and Mansfield (ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/osi-ds/osi-ds-39-00.txt)
• Spiders

  Definition: Spiders are a class of software programs that traverse network hosts gathering information from and about resources.

  ----- Lists, information and collections

  • Top 5 Keyword: Top of the Web entry for keyword searching tools, from December Communications, Inc. (http://www.december.com/web/top/keyword.html)
  • 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://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Searching_the_Web/Robots__Spiders__etc_/)

    ----- A selected list of Web spiders:

  • Crawler: gathers indexes of the total contents of documents, as well as URLSs and titles (http://webcrawler.com)
  • Excite: keyword or concept searching of Web pages or Usenet (http://www.excite.com)
  • Harvest: tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate information available over the Net (http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu)
  • InfoSeek: index search of the Internet (http://www.infoseek.com)
  • 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://www.lycos.com)
  • 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)
  • SavvySearch: Parallel Internet Query Engine (http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.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)
  • WebAnts: a project for cooperating, distributed Web spiders (http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/webants/)
  • WebWorm: 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 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

  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: : mail listserv@earncc.bitnet Body: "get trickle memo"
• Veronica

  Definition: Veronica locates titles of Gopher items by keyword search.

  • Veronica via gopher: Search ALL of Gopherspace using veronica, includes links to FAQ and instructional information (gopher://veronica.scs.unr.edu/11/veronica)

Systems

• 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://gopher@consultant.micro.umn.edu) Login as : gopher
  • Gopher via email/Japan: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@ncc.go.jp Body: "help"
  • Gopher via email/USA: use a gopher via email: mail gophermail@calvin.edu 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://www.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://wais@quake.think.com) Login as : wais
  • WAIS via gopher: (gopher://gopher-gw.micro.umn.edu)
  • WAISGATE: WAIS to WWW gateway, search WAIS databases through search terms, public directory maintained by WAIS, Inc. (http://www.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: The WWW is a system for disseminating hypermedia resources through servers and retrieving hypermedia resources through browsers on global or local computer networks.

  -----Overviews

  • WWW overview/W3C: overview of the Web, from the the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) (http://www.w3.org)
  • 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 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-Yahoo: Computers-World Wide Web section (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/)

    -----FAQs

  • WWW FAQ/Boutell: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list and answers about the Web--covers user, provider, and general information, maintained by Thomas Boutell (http://www.boutell.com/faq/)
  • WWW FAQ/W3C: Frequently Asked Questions on W3, by Tim Berners-Lee at W3C (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/List.html)

    -----Access

  • WWW via email: obtain a web file (e.g., http) via email; URL = Uniform resource locator; send message body 'www URL'; use the message body HELP to get instructions: mail webmail@www.ucc.ie Body: "GO URL"
  • WWW via telnet: an example of using WWW via telnet (to CERN) (telnet://telnet.w3.org)
  • WWW ftp info: some information files about the Web, includes papers, guides, and draft specifications, from CERN (ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/www/)
  • WWW gopher info: some information files about the Web available via gopher (gopher://gopher.w3.org)
  • Bootstrap: information about gaining more information about and accessing the Web (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/FAQ/Bootstrap.html)

    -----Software

  • Browserwatch: the latest on WWW browsers (http://www.browserwatch.com)
  • WWW Browsers/Yahoo: list from Yahoo, Computers-World Wide Web-Browsers (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/)
  • WWW Clients: a list of programs (Web browsers) that allow you to access the WWW, from CERN (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html)
  • WWW Servers: a list of programs (Web servers) that allow you to provide information on the Web, from CERN (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/Overview.html)
  • Web Software: a list of software products related to the Web (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Status.html)

    -----Developing Information

  • Web Development: a summary of a methodology for developing a web--includes planning, analysis, design, implementation, and development (http://www.december.com/web/develop.html)
  • The HTML Station: a summary of hypertext markup language syntax, includes demonstrations (http://www.december.com/html/index.html)
  • webreference.com: a well organized directory of information about web development, including reference lists as well as original articles and commentary (http://www.webreference.com)
  • WWW Vlib: WWW Development section from the WWW Virtual library, a resource collection for Web information providers and users, includes general information and links to various resources (http://www.stars.com)
  • HTML Writer's Guild: an association of HTML writers and Web developers for building awareness of web development skills (http://www.hwg.org)

    -----Navigating the Web

  • WWW Spiders: Spiders are a class of software programs that traverse network hosts gathering information from and about resources (http://www.december.com/net/tools/nir-tools-spiders.html)
  • WWW gateways: interfaces between the WWW and other information or communication systems (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Gateways/)
  • WWW Servers list: a list of registered WWW servers, organized geographically by continent and country (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html)
  • WWW Sites(CityLink): U.S. state and city web sites (http://www.neosoft.com/citylink/)
  • WWW Sites(Virtual Tourist): a geographic map to aid in locating Web sites and other resources (http://www.vtourist.com/webmap/)

    -----News and discussion

  • WWW Conferences: International conferences on the Web, past and future (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Conferences/Overview-WWW.html)
  • WWW-Announce: charter for the moderated Usenet newsgroup comp.infosystems.www.announce (http://www.halcyon.com/grant/Misc/charter.html)
  • WWW-Announce: a moderated newsgroup announcing new WWW resources (news:comp.infosystems.www.announce)
  • WWW discussion: search a database of 50 Web-related mailing lists and discussion groups (http://www.verity.com/library.html)
  • WWW Usenet Groups: a listing, description, and links to charters of Usenet newsgroups devoted to Web development (http://boutell.com/~grant/web-groups.html)

Interfaces

• Lists

  This is only a partial list of interfaces for accessing information on networks; for longer lists of World Wide Web browsers, see:

  • Browser Watch: a listing of WWW browsers, includes news, plug-in information, statistics on browsers, and good information and rumors for developers (http://www.browserwatch.com)
  • WWW Browser source: source code for a variety of Web browsers for different hardware platforms (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://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Clients.html)
  • WWW Browsers/Yahoo: list from Yahoo, Computers-World Wide Web-Browsers (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/)
• Arena

  Definition: Arena is a WWW broswer intended to test out HTML3.

  • Arena home: World Wide Web Organization's (W3O's) HTML3 browser (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Arena/)
  • Arena source: (ftp://ftp.w3.org/pub/www/arena/)
• 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)
• EINet WinWeb, MacWeb

  Definition: WinWeb (for Windows) and MacWeb (for Macintosh) are full-featured WWW browsers

  Note: shareware, 30 day evaluation period.

  • WinWeb: (http://www.einet.net/EINet/WinWeb/WinWebHome.html)
  • WinWeb source: (ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/pc)
  • MacWeb: (http://www.einet.net/EINet/MacWeb/MacWebHome.html)
  • MacWeb source: (ftp://ftp.einet.net/einet/mac/macweb)
• Emacs-WWW-browser

  Definition: Emacs is a WWW browser for use with the emacs text editor.

  • Emacs WWW: an Emacs subsystem that allows the user to browse the World Wide Web (http://www.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://fred@wp.psi.net) Login as : fred
• 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://www.tu-graz.ac.at)
• 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://hytelnet@info.ccit.arizona.edu) Login as : hytelnet
  • Hytelnet via gopher: from Washington University in St. Louis (gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/11/internet/hytelnet)
  • Hytelnet via WWW: (http://library.usask.ca/hytelnet/)
  • 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: : mail info@ibox.com 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: 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: 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.

  Let me know if you know a location of source code or information about it.

• SlipKnot

  Definition: a Windows-based graphical WWW browser which does NOT require SLIP or PPP or TCP/IP.

  Note: restricted shareware

  • SlipKnot: (http://www.interport.net/slipknot/slipknot.html)
• Viola

  Definition: Viola is a World Wide Web hypermedia browser for X Window System.

  • Viola web: lots of information about this web browser, including features list, demonstrations, jokes (http://marble.ebay.gnn.com/proj/viola/violaHome.html)
• 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)

• Broadway: a project to bring universal access to network applications on the Web; under development at the X consortium (http://www.x.org/consortium/broadway.html)
• Inferno(tm): an operating system for delivering interactive media; Limbo(tm) is the name of the language it supports; under development within the Computing Sciences Research Center of Bell Labs at Lucent Technologies (http://www.lucent.com/inferno/)
• Java(tm): a programming language for creating interactive, net-work distributed applications and applets on Web pages (http://www.december.com/works/java/info.html)

Interpersonal

• Chat Systems

  Definition: A Chat system can be used for live discussion; some systems involve multimedia (text, audio, video, etc.).

  • Global Stage: live commercial chat to the Internet (http://prospero.prospero.com/globalstage/)
• Email

  Definition: Email allows a user to send message(s) to another user (or many users via mailing lists).

  • 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://ftp.csd.uwm.edu/pub/internetwork-mail-guide)
  • InterNetwork Mail guide via WWW: (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/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 user@host.domain
  • Email tools: how to retrieve files from FTP sites, explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with Archie, Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even access Usenet newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL, by 'Doctor Bob' Rankin (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email)
  • Email services: a variety of services offered through an email account, by Doug Langley; please don't overuse: mail dlangley@netcom.com 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 (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html)
  • 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 user@host.domain is known: unix talk user@host.domain
• ZTalk

  Definition: Ztalk provides a low-bandwidth voice communication over tcp/ip networks.

  • Ztalk: TCP/IP Voice Communication (http://www.ssc.com/~roland/work/ztalk.html)
  • Ztalk source: (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/talk/)

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/Visualization/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)
  • Cu-SeeMe: Enhanced CU-SeeMe v2.0 for Windows (available for purchase) (http://www.cu-seeme.com)
• Haven

  Definition: A Haven is a network chat program that allows many people to talk to each other at once.

  • Haven newsgroup: (news:alt.internet.talk.haven)
• lily

  Definition: lily is a real-time text-based group conferencing system.

  • lily information: site for lily information, includes documentation and source code (http://www.lily.org)
• Listproc

  Definition: Listproc is a system that automates mailing lists and archives.

  • Anastasios Kotsikonas: Listproc creator: mail tasos@cs.bu.edu
• LISTSERV

  Definition: LISTSERV is a mailing-list program for group communication.

  • LISTSERV definition: the help file for listserv: mail listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu Body: "send listserv memo"
  • LISTSERV Home Page: reference to all LISTSERV discussion groups (http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html)
  • LISTSERV info/EARN: from European Academic Research Network Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/listserv.html)
  • LISTSERV tips: : mail listserv@bitnic.bitnet Body: "get listserv tips"
  • LISTSERV searching: tips on searching a listserv discussion for information: mail listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet Body: "get database search"
  • LISTSERV managing: How to Start and Manage a BITNET LISTSERV Discussion Group, by Kovacs, McCarty, and Kovacs: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get kovacs prv2n1"
  • LISTSERV tips: List Management Tips for LISTSERV Postmasters and List Owners, by Lisa M. Covi: mail listserv@bitnic.bitnet Body: "get listserv tips"
  • LISTSERV guide: The Listserv Guide for General Users: mail listserv@earncc.bitnet 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://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/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: : mail Majordomo@GreatCircle.COM Body: "help"
  • Brent Chapman: creator of Majordomo: mail brent@greatcircle.com
  • Majordomo Problems: : mail Majordomo-Owner@mv.mv.com
• 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://www.indstate.edu/msattler/sci-tech/comp/CU-SeeMe/faqs/mac-audio.html)
  • Maven source: (ftp://k12.cnidr.org/pub/Mac/)
• MU = Multiple-User Dialogue/Domain/Dungeon

  Definition: MUs 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(forms)-WAXWEB: Mosaic users can interact with a Moo (http://bug.village.virginia.edu)
  • mmMoo: multimedia MOO (http://www.peg.apc.org/~firehorse/mmm/mmm.html)
  • 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://www.yahoo.com/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)
• Pow-wow

  Definition: Pow-wow allows up to seven people to chat; exchange files; and travel the Web togehter; works with Windows.

  • PowWow: The PowWow page from Tribal Voice (http://www.tribal.com/powwow/default.htm)
• 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: : mail procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
• 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://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/WIT/User/Overview.html)
  • Example WIT session: an example of a WIT, branching off into many threads (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Discussion)
• WebChat

  Definition: Live (text) chat via the World Wide Web.

  • WebChat: live text chat via the Web, using HTML Forms capability, an experiment of Digital Equipment Corporation and the Internet Roundtable (http://webchat.service.digital.com)
  • WWW Chat Forums: from the Columbus Home Page (http://www.ohiocap.com/Chat/)
• WW = Web World

  Definition: A Web World is a virtual community enabled by the interactive HTML Forms (Interactive Webbing, see below).

  • DC: Digital City, a digital landscape (http://dc.viper.net/fun/dc/)
  • AlphaWorld: a member of this community can acquire and develop property, talk with people from around the world, assume an on-line persona, and interact in other ways (http://www.worlds.net/products/alphaworld/)
• Yarn

  Definition: Yarn is a text-based networked meeting system.

  • Yarn web: Yarn User Manual (http://dstc.bond.edu.au:91776/YarnMan.html)

Mass

• Audio

  Definition: Systems to present real-time sound delivered over the Internet.

  • RealAudio: (http://www.RealAudio.com)
  • Internet Phone: real time voice over Internet software (http://www.vocaltec.com)
  • PGPfone: Pretty Good Privacy Phone (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone/)
• 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: : mail majordomo@majordomo.bbn.com Body: "get icb-social ICB-FAQ"
• IW = Interactive Webbing

  Definition: Interactive Webbing gives people a common space for network distributed multimedia writing.

  • CoCo: Collaborative Cork Board (http://ean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Codes/CoCoBoard/)
  • 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-ftp.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://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/irc/connect.html)
  • IRC->WWW: gateway allowing you to send text to the #www channel of IRC (http://www.infosystems.com/cgi-bin/www2irc)
  • 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://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-talk-radio/)
  • ITR FAQ via email: Frequently Asked Questions on ITR: mail info@radio.com
  • 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: mail sites@radio.com
  • ITR discussion: an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about ITR (news:alt.internet.talk-radio)
• lily

  Definition: lily is a real-time text-based group conferencing system.

  • lily information: site for lily information, includes documentation and source code (http://www.lily.org)
• 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 Info Center: a one-stop, comprehensive source of information about Usenet, including help files, browsing and searching tools, FAQs, and other Usenet indexes and Services (http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/)
  • USENET FAQs: collection of frequently answer questions and answers about Usenet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/)
  • USENET info/EARN: from European Academic Research Network Association (EARN) (http://www.earn.net/gnrt/usenet.html)
  • 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: mail netnews@db.stanford.edu Body: "help"
  • Usenet post via email: post to newsgroup via email: mail hierarchy-group-name@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Your Subject Body: "Your Contents"
  • Usenet via WWW: access newsgroups via WWW (http://www.w3.org/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: mail mail-server@rtfm.MIT.EDU 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

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)
• MUTT

  Definition: is a Winsock based MUD client.

  • MUTT(tm): Mutli-User Trivial Terminal (http://www.graphcomp.com/mutt/mutt.html)

Collections

• ASN.1: resources for the ASN.1 language, by Philipp Hoschka (http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/asn1.html)
• Hypertext: Stardards relevant to hypertext (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Standards/Overview.html)
• IEEE SPAsystem: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Process Automation System (http://stdsbbs.ieee.org)
• 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)
• ISOC: Index to Internet Standards from the Internet Society (http://info.isoc.org/standards/index.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://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/MultimediaInfo/mmsurvey/standards.html)
• Organizations: players in setting technical standards for telecommunications and networking (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/organizations-standards.html)
• Protocols: Computers-Software-Protocols category from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Software/Protocols/)
• Standards Page: Index of telcommunication standards documentation (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/standards.html)
• Standards/Standards Bodies: from the WWW Virtual Library (http://www.iso.ch/VL/Standards.html)

Internet

• HTTP: a protocol for networked information (http://www.w3.org/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/)
• Personal IP: Charm Net Personal IP Page, information about connectivity to the Internet, PPP and MS-Windows, and more (http://www.charm.net/ppp.html)
• 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 (http://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/)
• Windows/SLIP: Windows internet SLIP software, maintained by Peter Faris QC (http://www.monash.edu.au/informatics/peter/home.htm)
• Windows/TCP/IP: accessing the Internet using tcp/ip applications under Microsoft Windows, by Harry M. Kriz (http://learning.lib.vt.edu/wintcpip/wintcpip.html)
• Winsock App List: Comprehensive List of Winsock Applications (http://cwsapps.texas.net/inx.html)

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://www.w3.org/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://rtfm.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://rtfm.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 (http://www.unicode.org)
• URI/URL/URN/URC: Addressing for the WWW (http://www.w3.org/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://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html)
• VEMMI: Enhanced Man-Machine Interface for Videotex and Muitimedia/Hypermedia Information Retrieval Services (http://www.mctel.fr)
• 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)

• Computers-Communication: index from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Communication/)
• Browserwatch: the latest on WWW browsers (http://www.browserwatch.com)
• Falken's: applications and tools available for accessing the Internet (http://commline.com/falken/tools.shtml)
• 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)
• WWW Communication: from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Communication/)