Internet & Networking: General Resources

INTERNET & NETWORKING: General Resources
IN THIS DOCUMENT: History Information Economy Information Ethics General Reference Internet Overviews and Guides Services Guides SUGGESTIONS TO: IFLANET@ifla.org	SEE ALSO: Internet and Networking: Internet Indexes, Directories and Finding Aids. Internet and Networking: Mailing Lists Guides and Resources. Internet and Networking: Surveys and Statistics. Internet and Networking: Standards and Organizations. Internet and Networking: Selected IETF RFCs for Librarians.
HISTORY Cerf, Vinton. A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/history1.txt Cerf, Vinton. How the Internet Came to Be. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/history2.txt General Accounting Office. Information Superhighway: An Overview of Technology Challenges. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/gao.txt Hardy, Ian. The Evolution of ARPANET email. History Thesis, UC Berkeley. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/hari1.txt Hardy, Henry. The History of the Net. Master's Thesis, School of Communications, Grand Valley State University. Good bibliography. URL: http://www.vrx.net/usenet/thesis/hardy.html URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/net_hist.txt Hauben, Ronda and Hauben, Michael. Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. This is a hypertext book on the origins and effects of the Internet. URL: http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/ Leiner, Barry M., et. al. A Brief History of the Internet. URL: http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/ Segal, Ben. A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN. April, 1995. URL: http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/pdp/ns/ben/TCPHIST.html URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/segb1.htm Sterling, Bruce. Short History of the Internet. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/history3.txt INFORMATION ECONOMY Varian, Hal. The Information Economy. "This is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) about the economic, institutional, and technological structure of the Internet. The document describes the current state of the Internet, discusses some of the pressing economic and regulatory problems, and speculates about future developments." URL: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/ INFORMATION ETHICS GENERAL REFERENCE Bennett, Eric. The Cross-Platform Page. This page lists resources for reading and converting image, video, audio, and data compression/encoding file formats on most common computer systems. URL: http://x3066.resnet.cornell.edu/xplat/xplat.html ISO. Country Codes. URL: ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/iso3166.htm Malkin, G. and Marine, A. Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions. RFC 1206, January 1993. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/internet.txt Malkin, G. Internet Users' Glossary. RFC 1983. August 1996. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/rfc1983.txt Obsoletes RFC 1392: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/rfc1392.txt Perlman, Eric and Kallen, Ian. Common Internet File Formats. URL: http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html Perlman, Eric and Kallen, Ian. ILC Glossary of Internet Terms. URL: http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html Stevens, Mark. File Formats on Web Sites. URL: http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/RESEAUX/osorio/TechInfo/FileFormats.html Various. The Jargon File. January 25, 1996. Version 3.3.1. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/jargon.htm Various. Smileys: The Canonical Guide. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/smileys.htm Zhang, Allison. Multimedia File Formats. URL: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/multimed/contents.htm INTERNET OVERVIEWS AND GUIDES Armour Polly, Jean. Surfing the INTERNET: an Introduction. Revised May 15, 1993. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/surfing.txt December, John. Internet Tools Summary. URL: http://www.december.com/net/tools/index.html EARN. Guide to Network Resource Tools. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/earn30.txt Electronic Frontier Foundation. Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/effguide.txt Kehoe, Brendan. Zen and the Art of Internet 1992. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/zen.txt PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/zen.pdf Krol, Ed. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet. 25 August 1987. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/kroe1.htm Milles, J. Where to start for new Internet users. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/newuser.txt Minuteman Systems. Software Distribution On The Internet : A Primer. April, 1994. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/inetsft.txt Raish, Martin. Network Knowledge for the Neophyte: Stuff You Need to Know in Order to Navigate the Electronic Village Version 4.1, March 8, 1994. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/netneo.txt Savetz, Kevin. Unofficial Internet Book List. URL: http://redwood.northcoast.com/savetz/booklist/ Schneider, Karen. Internet Success Stories. URL: http://www.bluehighways.com/ University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Survey of Network Training Materials. ITTI Network Training Materials Project, Computing Service. January 1993. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/train.txt Yanoff, Scott. Special Internet Connections. URL: http://www.spectracom.com/islist/ URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/yanoff.txt SERVICES GUIDES Anonymous FTP FAQ URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/ftpfaq.txt A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/rfc1739.txt A TCP/IP Tutorial URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/rfc1180.txt Boutell, Thomas. World Wide Web FAQ. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/wwwfaq.txt Home URL: http://www.boutell.com/faq/ Europe URL: http://info.ox.ac.uk/help/wwwfaq/ Asia URL: http://www.sinica.edu.tw/www/faq/boutell/index.htm Australia URL: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/public/www-faq/ Africa URL: http://www.mikom.csir.co.za/faq/www/index.htm Goodwin, John. E-Mail 101. Version 0.2.5. 17 July 1993. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/gooj1.htm Internet Access Using SLIP or PPP. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/slip-ppp.txt Internetwork Mail Guide. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/mail.txt Netnews (Usenet). URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/netnews.txt Rankin, Bob. Accessing the Internet by Email. Doctor Bob's Guide to Offline Internet Access. URL: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/inetmail.txt WAIS, A Sketch Of An Overview - 1991. URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/internet/wais.txt


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