Intro to the Web
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Internet
Primer
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- A clickable narrative history of the Internet with lots of detours.
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PBS
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- A companion to the PBS series on the Internet. It's another history.
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Frequently
Asked Questions
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- Some of the things you maybe wanted to know about the World Wide Web.
Didja ever wonder what FAQ means?
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Net Lingo
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- An Internet dictionary. It's near the bottom of the page.
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HTML
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HTML
Primer
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- The programming language that makes the Web work.
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Organizations
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W3 Consortium
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- These are "the people of the Web." They include Tim Berners-Lee,
the guy who thought it up.
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W3 Consortium Virtual
Library
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- This is their library.
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Internic
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News, Ezines
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Netsurfer Digest
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C|net
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- A good source of daily Net news. They also publish News.com.
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Communications
Week Interactive
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- "The home page for the network generation."
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Internet
Newsroom
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- A small portion of this twice monthly newsletter.
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Internet World
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Netguide
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Online Inc.
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- Several good mags covering the Internet and other online services.
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Statistics
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Nielsen
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- A lengthy summary of a very lengthy survey of Internet usage. The
press release
may be all you need.
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GVU
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- Graphic, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center's User Survey at
Georgia Tech. These folks are now working on their sixth survey of Internet
usage.
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| Yahoo |
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Yahoo has a category for everything, including Internet statistics |
Tools
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| Domain Registration |
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Who's behind that .com? This'll tell you. |
| NSlookup |
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All WWW addresses are actually strings of numbers. For instance, the "real"
address for www.yahoo.com is 204.71.177.66. Nslookup tells you the real
address. If you have the Real address, you can get the alias. Nslookup can
be useful if a site's domain name server is down. |
| List of
Listservs |
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| Search
Engines, Catalogs, etc. |
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