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Last Updated Thu Mar 13 10:42:56 PDT 2003

The intent of this directory was to provide recent information resources to help the network novice become familiar with the Internet, including its associated networks, resources, and protocols. When the Internet was young there was a big need for the following information. Now there are many groups who do the same job and EFF has moved on to other things. Most of the following information remains for historical purposes.

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README.PGP_FAQs
README.where_rfcs_and_more
ddn_protocol_vendors_guide.old
internet_goldmine.faq

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Big_Dummy/: See EFF_Net_Guide/
EFF_Net_Guide/: directory housing EFF's Guide to the Internet - all you need to get started with IRC, ftp, email, gopher, Usenet, you name it. It's all here. If you're having trouble with FTP, try sending any message to netguide@eff.org, and the guide will be automatically mailed to you. This directory contains many versions (most in the Other_versions subdiretory) - the one you probably want right now, the plain text one, is netguide.eff in /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/
Guidebooks/: directory of misc guidebooks on networking, from Zen and the Art of Internet to Hitchhiker's Guide to Internet, and more. A good place to continue after EFF_Net_Guide.
Introductory/: See Net_culture/
Misc/
Resources/: directory containing misc resource pointers (ftp site lists, lists of net access providers, lists of CMC and social resources, lists of mailing lists and newsgroups, etc.)
Technical/: docs on technical aspects of networking and comms, incl. general FAQs about internet technology (TCP/IP, ftp, etc.) If it's the sort of thing you'd ask your admin about (and probably be told "RTFM!"), this is the place to look. If you're after very basic intros to the net, or looking for socially-oriented FAQs (netiquette, etc.) Look in /pub/Net_info/Net_Culture/ and /pub/Net_info/Guidebooks/ (and you may find EFF's Guide to the Internet in /pub/Net_info/EFF_Net_Guide/ to be of particular interest).
Tools/: directory containing misc networking-related tools, including compression software, cryptographic items, net searching tools, etc. By no means exhaustive, but a good place to start. Most FAQs and other documents will be found either in the compressed archives, or in the /pub/Net_info/Technical/ directory. An exception is PGP- and crypto- related FAQs and other docs, which are located in /pub/Net_info/Tools/Crypto/ and apropos subdirectories thereof.

Related On-Site Resources

EFF Net Culture & Cyberanthropology Archive
EFF's Guide to the Internet
EFF Global Information Infrastructure Archive

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INDEXES & SEARCH TOOLS/SERVICES
OTHER NET INFO, SERVICES & TOOLS
BUSINESS ONLINE
GENERAL REFERENCE
MISC.
INDEXES & SEARCH TOOLS/SERVICES
NCSA's Internet Resources Meta-Index
NCSA's Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index: for WAIS, etc. requires HTML forms support.
Virtual Listserv's Search Engine: Forum One is a guide to over 117,000 Web Forum Discussions. Web Forums" are areas on the web where you can post and respond to messages. Many other listservs may be found by typing "listserv" into altavista or its equivalent
The World Wide web Virtual Library:: Electronic journals, newspapers, magazines, newsletters and other resources.
Champaign, IL Public Library's: List of e-zines and other electronic media.
MIT's usenet faq archive.
EINet Galaxy Guide to World-Wide Information and Services.
NetCenter: Netscape's hub-and-spokes model reciprocal linking system of WWW indexing.
The Awesome List,: John Makulowich's index of "the glory and grandeur of the Internet, the sine qua non of Cyberspace"
NetBook/ScottList,: an extensive Internet site index, thirteen hundred+ entries.
Yahoo,: A portal with search engine, many services, information, free e-mail, chat rooms, etc.
Magellan: WWW Search Engine
CMU's Lycos: WWW Search Engine
InfoSeek: WWW Search Engine
WebCrawler: WWW Search Engine
DejaNews: Usenet Archive Search Engine
Excite: WWW & Usenet Search Engine, + Web Site Reviews
CUSI (CONFIGURABLE UNIFIED SEARCH INTERFACE): one interface for multiple WWW search engines
WWW Search Engine Meta-Index
Search World-wide ftp Servers Using Archie Search Tool.
Search a massive index of SunSite: CD-ROM reasearch databases
SunSite Usenet Info Center: Launch Pad
Searchable index of the comp.infosystems.* newsgroups
Cool Site of the Day
Four11: The Internet White Pages: lists online people in a phonebook-like database
A "Yellow Pages": index of professional media/news websites, email addresses & more.
The Internet Domain Survey: WWW Archive
Index of Academic Internet Servers
Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences: mailing lists
The Netizen's Cyberstop: info on net culture and history.
A large list of FTP sites.
OTHER NET INFO, SERVICES & TOOLS
WebChat demo & archive
(WebChat is a realtime chat utility for WWW browsers)
WebLint,: an HTML syntax checker (upload HTML to it, or point it at a URL. This is now a subscription service - $9.95 for 6 mos. $16.95 for a year.)
Alex,: an NSF-like method of treating FTP sites as part of one's own directory tree - neat tool!
The Internet Phone Company (tpc.int) Free Fax-via-Internet Service
Web Communications' Comprehensive Guide to Publishing on the Web
Internet/Usenet History: FTP Site
NIC-France (en Francais)
Japan Network Information Center: (JPNIC; in Japanese & English)
Internet/Usenet FAQs: (more tech. & non-tech. docs)
HEPROC:: Higher Education Resources and Assistance WWW Site
WWW Tips for Beginners
Brown & Mech's: Beginner's HTML Template for WWW Pages
Information About Gopher
GVU's NSFNet Backbone Statistics Page
The The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: shares many entries with HackDict, but has a lot more serious jargon terms.
Babel A Glossary of Computer-oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms.
Biography.Com: search 15,000+ biographies of notable personalities.
Info on New Internet Protocols: (IPng, SIPP, TUBA, etc.)
Info on the Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language (KQML): for software agent communications.
Internet Resources Newsletter: A free newsletter for academics, students, engineers, scientists & social scientists. "Possibly the most useful round-up of new resources for academic users " - The Student's Guide to the Internet 1998/99
BUSINESS ONLINE
Index of Open Market Home Page:: "We are Internet commerce"
File a complaint with the Better Business Bureau: Central Web Server (IBBB)
List of Internet access providers (regularly updated.): You can also
GENERAL REFERENCE
Babel:: A Glossary of Computer-oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
Acronym Server
Anu Garg's Dictionary & Thesaurus Server
Merriam-Webster English Dictionary (hypertext edition)
Michael Moncur's Quotations Server -: search for quotes by keyword & author, get quotes of the day, get random quotes.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations WWW edition
Encyclopedia Britannica, online edition
Encyberpedia: index of online encyclopedias (from general, to very topic-specific).
indo.com Geographic Name Server: finds the latitude and longitude of two places, then calculates the distance between them.
Central Source Yellow Pages -: online phonebook of almost all businesses in the US (this is an online version of a phone book, not an index of online businesses).
The online Yellow Pages: lists US businesses (this is an online version of a phone book, not an index of online businesses).
Tiger's MapBrowse: generate custom US area maps on the fly and download them (free).
MISC.
Weather Reports: by National Weather Service.
Recent Earthquakes United States Geophysical Service