The new Internet Navigator
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The new Internet Navigator
Wiley, c1995
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 717-724
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Revised and updated to reflect the increased growth of the Internet, this handbook has been designed for the individual using a PC and modem to connect to the system. The edition has been expanded to cover the latest Internet tools and trends. It features new discussions of: The World Wide Web, (including browsers such as Netscape and Mosaic); SLIP/PPP connections; and a vast assortment of graphical programs for SLIP/PPP connections, World Wide Web, FTP and USENET tools. Other topics covered include: how the Internet works; its underlying technologies, especially TCP/IP; Internet access offered by the large online services (CompuServe, Prodigy, America OnLine); and local service providers.
Table of Contents
- A Wild Surmise
- The Internet Defined
- Signing on to the Internet
- Introduction to Unix
- FTP: Files by the Gigabyte
- Telnet Shrinks the World
- A World of Electronic Mail
- Electronic Mail as a Gateway to the Internet
- The Art of the List
- Electronic Magazines, Newspapers, and Project Gutenberg
- USENET: Keeping Up with the News
- Gopher: Information by Menu
- WAIS: Tracking Down Information
- The World Wide Web
- An Internet Toolbox
- A Directory of Internet Resources
- The Future of the Internet
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
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