EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet

A round trip through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and Everything...

Texinfo Edition 2.3, September 1994

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• EFF's Guide to the Internet License
  • Distribution Policy
• G'day, folks!
• Welcome
• Foreword
• Subject: "A Superhighway through the Wasteland?"
• Preface
• Setting up and Jacking in
  • Ready, Set...
  • Go!
  • Public-Access Internet Providers
    • Alabama
    • Alaska
    • Alberta
    • Arizona
    • British Columbia
    • California
    • Colorado
    • Delaware
    • Florida
    • Illinois
    • Maryland
    • Massachusetts
    • Michigan
    • New Hampshire
    • New Jersey
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • Ohio
    • Ontario
    • Oregon
    • Pennsylvania
    • Quebec
    • Rhode Island
    • Texas
    • Utah
    • Virginia
    • Washington, DC
    • Washington State
    • Germany
    • Italy
    • United Kingdom
    • Australia
  • If your Town doesn't have Direct Access
  • Net Origins
  • How it Works
  • When things go wrong
  • FYI:
• Electronic Mail
  • The Basics
  • ELM -- A better way
  • PINE -- An even better way
  • Smileys
  • E-Mail to other Networks
    • America Online
    • ATTMail
    • Bitnet
    • CompuServe
    • Delphi
    • Fidonet
    • GEnie
    • MCIMail
    • Peacenet
    • Prodigy
  • Seven UNIX Commands you can't live without:
    • Wildcards
  • When things go wrong:
  • FYI:
• Usenet: the Global Watering Hole
  • The Global Watering Hole
  • Navigating Usenet with nn
  • nn Commands
  • Using rn
  • rn Commands
  • Essential Newsgroups
  • Speaking up
  • Cross-posting
• Usenet: from Flame Wars to Killfiles
  • Flame, Blather and Spew
  • Killfiles -- The cure for all that ails you
  • Some Usenet hints
  • The Brain-tumor Boy and the Modem Tax an the Chain Letter
    • Craig Shergold
    • The Modem Tax
    • The Chain Letter
  • Big Sig
  • The First Amendment as Local Ordinance
  • Usenet History
  • When things go wrong:
  • FYI:
• Mailing Lists and Bitnet
  • Internet Mailing Lists
  • Bitnet Lists
• Telnet (Mining the Net, part I)
  • Mining the Net
  • Library Catalogs
  • Some Interesting Telnet Sites
    • Agriculture
    • AIDS
    • Amateur Radio
    • Animals
    • Calculators
    • Chemistry
    • Congress
    • Conversation
    • Copyright Law
    • Current Events
    • Dictionary
    • Environment
    • Geography
    • Government
    • Health
    • Hiring and College Program Information
    • History
    • Mexico
    • Quotations
    • Religion
    • Ski Reports
    • Space
    • Supreme Court Decisions
    • Telnet Addresses
    • Thesaurus
    • Time
    • Transportation
    • Weather
  • Telnet Bulletin-Board Systems
    • Cimarron
    • Cleveland Free-Net
    • Dialog
    • DUBBS
    • ISCA BBS
    • Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL)
    • Youngstown Free-Net
  • Putting the Finger on Someone
  • Finding Someone on the Net
  • When things go wrong:
  • FYI:
• FTP (Mining the Net, part II)
  • Tons of Files
  • Your Friend Archie
  • Getting the Files
  • Odd Letters -- Decoding File Endings
  • The Keyboard Cabal
  • Some Interesting FTP Sites
    • Amiga
    • Atari
    • Books
    • Computer Ethics
    • Consumer
    • Cooking
    • Economics
    • Esperanto
    • Evolutionary Computation
    • FTP Addresses
    • Government
    • History
    • Hong Kong
    • Internet
    • Law
    • Libraries
    • Literature
    • Macintosh
    • Movie Reviews
    • MS-DOS
    • Music
    • Native Americans
    • Pets
    • Pictures
    • Photography
    • Religion
    • Science Fiction
    • Sex
    • Shakespeare
    • Space
    • TeX
    • TV
    • Travel
    • Usenet
    • Viruses
    • Weather
    • X Windows
  • ncftp -- Now You Tell Me!
  • Project Gutenberg -- Electronic Books
  • When things go wrong:
  • FYI:
• Gophers, WAISs and the World-Wide Web
  • Gophers
  • Burrowing Deeper
  • Gopher Commands
  • Some Interesting Gophers
    • Agriculture
    • Amimals
    • Architecture
    • Art
    • Astronomy
    • Census
    • Computers
    • Disability
    • Environment
    • Entomology
    • Geology
    • Government
    • Health
    • History
    • Internet
    • Israel
    • Japan
    • Music
    • Nature
    • Sports
    • Weather
    • More Gophers
  • Wide-Area Information Servers
  • World-Wide Web
  • Clients, or how to snare more on the Web
  • When Things Go Wrong
  • FYI:
• Advanced E-mail
  • The File's in the Mail
  • Receiving Files
  • Sending Files to Non-Internet Sites
  • Getting FTP Files via E-Mail
  • The all knowing Oracle
• News of the World
  • Clarinet: UPI, Dave Barry and Dilbert
  • Reuters
  • USA Today
  • The World Today, from Belarus to Brazil
  • E-Mailing News Organizations
  • FYI:
• IRC, MUDs and other things that are more fun than they sound
  • Talk
  • Internet Relay Chat
  • IRC Commands
  • IRC in Times of Crisis
  • MUDs
  • Go, Go, Go (and Chess, too)!
  • The other Side of the Coin
  • FYI:
• Education and the Net
  • The Net in the Classroom
  • Some Specific Resources for Students and Teachers
    • K12Net
    • AskERIC
    • SpaceMet
    • Kidsphere
    • Health-Ed:
    • Knoxville News-Sentinel Online
    • Hemingway
    • MicroMUSE
    • NASA Spacelink
    • Newton
    • OERI
    • More Educational Resources
  • Usenet and Bitnet in the Classroom
  • FYI:
• Business on the Net
  • Setting Up Shop
  • FYI
• "Conclusion: the End?" by Adam Gaffin
• "A Slice of Life in my Virtual Community" by Howard Rheingold
  • A Cybernaut's Eye View
  • Social Contracts, Reciprocity, and Gift Economies in Cyberspace
  • Who Is The WELL?
  • My Neighborhood On The WELL
  • FYI:
• "A Statement of Principle" by Bruce Sterling
  • FYI:
• Preserving and Promoting the "Internet Culture" by Peter Deutsch
• Subject: "TIME Article on Internet" by Philip Elmer-Dewitt
• Subject: "A Perspective on NREN" by Greg Chartrand
• The Lingo
• Dear Emily Postnews
• EFF Information
  • General Information About the EFF
    • Information Infrastructure
    • Civil Liberties
    • Legal Services
    • Community Building
  • How to connect to EFF?
    • Internet and USENET
    • The WELL
    • CompuServe
    • America Online
  • Membership in the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Internet Connectivity
• The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
  • Basic Smileys
  • Widely used Smileys
  • Midget Smileys
  • Mega Smileys
  • Usenet Smileys
  • Emotional Smileys
• Paperware on the Net
  • Hardcover & Softcover Publications
  • Journal Articles and Papers
  • Cyberspace-related News bits
  • Electronically published Texts
  • FYI:
    • Snail Mail Addresses
    • E-Mail and List server Addresses
    • FTP'able & Gopher'able Addresses
• E-mail Addresses
• Internet Sites
• Commands, Suffixes & Tools
• General Index