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1. Internet History
2. Usenet
1. General
2. Information about Usenet
3. Searching Usenet
3. The World Wide Web and HTML
4. Miscellaneous Net-related stuff
5. Searching the Net...
1. ...for stuff ...
2. ... for people ...
3. ...and for random interesting pages.

1. Internet History

   Despite the publication of such things as Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon's Where Wizards Stay up Late, there is still not a great deal of info available off-line on the history of the net. There is a fair bit available on-line, though:
• Internet Background and Basics, sponsored by Tectrix, is an annotated collection of links to stuff on the history and background of the net. The annotation isn't especially enlightening, and some of the links aren't that compelling, but there is some useful stuff there, as well.
• Internet and WWW History, provided by The Electronic Software Publishing Corp., is a collection of mostly useful links to info on the history of the net.
• The PBS Internet Timeline is a very brief history of the internet provided by PBS, along with a few links to other info.
• The (unofficial) Internet History Archives provide a vast amount of really interesting source material on the early days of the net, including old discussions, newsletters, and the like.
• Yahoo's Internet_History section is (or course) just a bunch of other links, but some of them are worth following.
• The Community Memory List is a mailing list devoted to preserving unofficial history -- the "community memory", as it were. The Community Memory Page is the list's homepage, and a source of a bunch of useful information.
• In Defense of Technology: 'Arte', Computers and the Wonderful World of Usenet News: A Historical Perspective is an interesting look at Usenet from the perspective of "Arte". Part I, "The Role of 'Arte' in the Production of Social Wealth," covers the historical background, while Part II, "'Arte' and Usenet News," covers Usenet in the light of that background.
• The History of the Net, Henry Edward Hardy's master's thesis, has a lot of interesting -- if somewhat academic, at least for some tastes -- stuff on the history of the net. [Note: if you are on a slow link, be aware that it loads all in one piece, and it is almost 100K.]
• The netizens netbook is an interesting an informative view of the past and present of the internet, and includes a view toward the future, especially as regards the place of netizens on the net. This link goes to the "netbook" page (which gives you links to various sources for the netbook), or you can go directly to the table of contents.

2. Usenet

   There has been some interesting writing about Usenet. Some of it is:
• In Defense of Technology: 'Arte', Computers and the Wonderful World of Usenet News: A Historical Perspective is an interesting look at Usenet from the perspective of "Arte". Part I, "The Role of 'Arte' in the Production of Social Wealth," covers the historical background, while Part II, "'Arte' and Usenet News," covers Usenet in the light of that background.
• Myths About Usenet is Guy Berliner's collection of various Usenet myths, along with explanations of why they're wrong.
• Saving Usenet and then Some... is T. Boutell's discussion of how to save Usenet, including a discussion of the "self-moderation" of newsgroups.
• Unrelated to the above, although sharing some similarity in name, is The Usenet II Project. This is a somewhat different experiment in structuring newsgroups, with all its groups in the net.* hierarchy. Usenet II is not available everywhere, as part of the experiment is that sites only exchange feeds with other "sound" sites.
• The Courtesy Project, supported bythe University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies, aims "to conduct an investigation into the origin of the behavioural norms of the Internet community." Some interesting stuff. Besides, their "digitography" includes a pointer to my Help, I've Been Spammed! FAQ, so they must be doing something right.
• Articles About the Net is a bunch of links to interesting (if sometimes a bit academic) papers dealing with the net, many of them dealing specifically with Usenet.

Also available is a lot of information:

MG's House of News Knowledge

Links to all sorts of information on Usenet news. Part of MG's House of Forbidden Knowledge.

Usenet Info Center

The "Launch Pad" with connections to lots of Usenet info.

Newsgroup Info Center Home Page

Another part of the the Usenet Info Center.

Usenet Info

Another collection of pointers to Usenet news info, including The Usenet Info Center FAQ or Bible of Usenet.

CancelMoose[tm]

The CancelMoose[tm] home page. Lots of info on NoCeM: a method for flagging Usenet posts for reading or ignoring, using the flags applied by whomever the reader chooses.

15 Minutes of Fame is a Lifetime on the Net

The "Kook of the Month" page. In this section because KotM is usenet-centered.

There is lots of useful information available at rtfm.mit.edu (and mirrored at mirror.aol.com, ftp.uu.net, ftp.sunet.se, ftp.uni-paderborn.de, and others), including:

• What is Usenet?, by Salzenberg, Spafford and Moraes.
• What is Usenet? A second opinion., by Vielmetti.
• A Primer on How to Work with the Usenet Community, by Von Rospach, Spafford, et al.
• Rules for Posting to Usenet, by Horton, Spafford & Moraes.
• Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette, by Templeton, et al.

There is a lot of information out there on Usenet, and finding it can be a bit easier if you use one of the Usenet search engines:

DejaNews Research Service - homepage

DejaNews lets you search all posts to Usenet, and can give you things like author profiles for a particular poster. Also allows you to post to Usenet.

Reference follows the DejaNews pattern, but also includes mailing lists and WWW fora.



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3. The World Wide Web and HTML

The World Wide Web Consortium

The folks that bring you HTML standards.

The World Wide Web FAQ

A whole lot of info on the Web, along with other interesting stuff on Thomas Boutell's Home Page.

Mosaic for the Macintosh

Mosaic, an oldie, can still be used if you prefer a stripped-down, but still graphically-enabled browser.

Best Viewed With Any Browser

The campaign for browser-independent web design. Do you want to design web pages that are unviewable by some folks?

A Kinder, Gentler HTML Validator

Submit your web pages, and you can find out whether they meet the standards.

The Bandwidth Conservation Society

BCS is a great source of info on how to most effectively use the resources of the Web. Yes, your pages can be attractive without requiring a T-1 for comfortable browsing! Recommended.

MG's House of Web Knowledge

Links to lots of Web stuff, especially technical stuff. Another part of MG's House of Forbidden Knowledge.

webreference.com [TM]

A great collection of Web stuff.

The World Wide Web

Just Yahoo!s index, but lots of stuff.

HTML JUMP GATE

Links to a bunch of Web info, especially Macintosh stuff.

The Bare Bones Guide to HTML

The complete specs to HTML 3.2, available in quite a few different languages.

Apple Web Design Guide

www.hacked.net © 1997 mediaeater

hacked.net lists its purpose as: "To archive web page attacks and provide easy access to tools, information, news, regarding online security. A resource for the casual surfer and system administrators to safe surf online." Some of the stuff here is quite entertaining.

Yale Style Manual

Supposedly covering "Human interface for internet design", this is a rather poorly-designed (in my not-especially-humble opinion) site. But they do have some interesting stuff here.

adobe.mag

A "semimonthly web magazine devoted to online and digital publishing." From Adobe.

clip2gif Home Page

Clip2Gif is a nice little postcardware program for the Mac that converts between various graphics formats.

The Java Tutorial

The Java Tutorial, online from the folks at Sun.

Welcome to AppleJava

Apple Computer's Java site.

4. Miscellaneous Net-related stuff

The Internic

These are the folks that give out all those clever domain names without caring a whit about anything but collecting their annual fees. But this is also the home of all sorts of info on the net, including whois servers, RFCs (Requests For Comments), etc.

the Internet Engineering Task Force

The IETF are the folks who deal with the more technical issues of internet engineering, via a series of working groups.

Internet Society Home Page

ISP/C

The Internet Service Providers' Consortium, a (new-ish) trade group of ISPs. They've produced a Policy Statement on Spam.

The Emerging Model of the Internet

This is an article from the June, 1997, issue of SunWorld Online that is rather interesting, and looks to be planned as the beginning of a series.

The Organization for Community Networks

This is a clearinghouse for information on Community Nets and FreeNets. They include a directory of commmunity nets around the world.

The Chicago Area Internet Providers List

A really useful source for those looking for service in the Chicago area: a complete list of providers with information on each and links to most of them.

WebMuseum: Bienvenue!

The WebMuseum: a rather sizeable collection of art.

MG's House of Forbidden Knowledge

All sorts of interesting and useful stuff; home of MG's House of Web Knowledge, and MG's House of News Knowledge.

Welcome to the Digital Future Coalition

A group focusing on copyright issues as related to computing and networking.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

I use IE for the Mac. I find it more powerful that Mosaic, and far more stable than Netscape. Yep, it is from Microsloth, but whatcha gunna do?

Yahoo! Computing

Yahoo!Computing from Ziff-Davis Publishing.

Internet Tools Gateway

A web-based front-end to various internet tools, such as "whois".

Web Interface to Whois

"Whois" on the web, direct from the folks at the Internic.

American Registry for Internet Numbers Proposal

The proposal for the American Registry for Internet Numbers -- privatisation of IP numbers.

Internet:Information and Documentation

Just Yahoo!s links to Internet Documentation



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5. Searching the Net...

1. ... for stuff ...

Yahoo

Yahoo is good for searching by category.

InfoSeek

Infoseek is another search site, but one that -- for no good reason -- I haven't used much.

DejaNews Research Service - homepage

DejaNews lets you search all posts to Usenet, and can give you things like author profiles for a particular poster. Also allows you to post to Usenet.

Reference follows the DejaNews pattern, but also includes mailing lists and WWW fora.

Point: It's What You're Searching For

Pointcast isn't exactly a search engine, but it does search ... kind of.

WebCrawler

I haven't used it much, but it's the WebCrawler search engine.

WwwFetch

A new search service. Haven't actually used them, so no comment yet.

Welcome the the Internet Movie Database [IMDb]

Well, it is a searchable database... .

U.S. Census Bureau Home Page

Lots of data here...

SFWA Index

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

2. ... for people ...

The Ultimate White Pages

A collection of links to different search engines.

WebFinder

Looks to be the same thing as the Ultimate White Pages...

WhoWhere?

A search engine for email addresses.

Switchboard Home Page

Switchboard is supposed to be another search engine, but now I can't get a connection. Link might work; might not.

3. ... and for random interesting pages.

Yahoo! for the Day

Yahoo!'s best of the day

Cool Site of the Day

From infi.net.

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