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There are thousands of mailing lists you can subscribe to on the Internet
today, covering topics as diverse as PERL programming and dog breeding. For a
list of some of the many mailing lists available on the Net, check out Stephanie
de Silva's list of Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists, updated monthly, at http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml
, the list of LISTSERV lists at http://tile.net/listserv
or the forms-searchable Liszt database of 25,000 mailing lists at http://www.liszt.com
You can find answers to most of your questions about Internet e-mail in the directory of e-mail FAQs at ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/mail
For more on the history of the Internet, consult Bruce Sterling's excellent article on the topic at gopher://oak.zilker.net:70/00/bruces/F_SF_Science_Column/F_SF_Five
If you don't know someone's e-mail address, there are a variety of
"white pages" services available on the Web for looking them up. As
always, a good list of such services can be found on Yahoo! at http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/White_Pages
/. My current favorite is the Internet Address Finder at http://www.iaf.net
Usenet FAQs. ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers
is a good place to start.
For more information on Internet e-mail addresses, including lists of domain
names for many popular online services, see John J. Chew's and Scott Yanoff's
interactive forms-based "Inter-Network Mail Guide" at http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl
The definitive online guide to Usenet is the comprehensive list of Usenet FAQs archived
at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/usenet/top.html.
You can find Usenet newsgroups of interest using the search form at http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/find-news
The Usenet Info Center Launch Pad at http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i
also offers a wealth of information on Usenet, including lists and indexes of
available Usenet discussion groups.
An excellent source of additional information on TCP/IP is the Introduction to TCP/IPGopher site at the University of California at Davis. Check it out at
gopher://gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu/11/Index/Internet_aw/Intro_the_Internet/intro.to.ip
An excellent online guide to Telnet is located on the University of Washington Library's site at http://www.lib.washington.edu/libinfo/inetguides/inet6.html
One of the biggest lists of FTP sites on the Web is the Monster FTP Sites List at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ftp
Archie is the answer. Archie is a program for finding files stored on any
anonymous FTP site on the Internet. The Archie Usage Guide at http://info.rutgers.edu/Computing/Network/Internet/Guide/archie.html
provides an excellent overview of Archie, including instructions on how to find
and hook up to Archie servers on the Net.
The complete list of FTP-related FAQs is located online at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/ftp-list/faq/faq.html
When accessing a Gopher site using a Web browser, the URL will be preceded by gopher:// rather than the http:// shown when you're viewing a Web site.
As Archie is to FTP, Veronica is to Gopher. That is, if you want to know where something is on any Gopher site on the Net, the Veronica program can tell you. For a connection to Veronica via the Web, go to http://www.scs.unr.edu/veronica.html
The Net's best Gopher sites are on the Gopher Jewels list at http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ
For more about Gopher, consult the Gopher FAQ at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/gopher-faq/faq.html
The topic of domain names is covered to the point of exhaustion in the Usenet FAQ on the topic, which can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/internet/tcp-ip/domains-faq
Your organization can get an IP address assigned by sending electronic mail
to Hostmaster@INTERNIC.NET
This service used to be free, but there is now a reasonable charge because of
the tremendous growth of the Internet and the privatization of the process. For
more information, point your browser to InterNIC's Web site at http://rs.internic.net/rs-internic.html
One of the best online guides to the Internet as a whole is the Electronic Freedom Foundation's Extended Guide to the Internet at http://www.eff.org/papers/bdgtti/eegtti.html
For a wealth of both more and less accurate demographic information on the
growth of the Internet in general and the World Wide Web in specific, begin
with Yahoo!'s list of sites at http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Statistics_and_Demographics
One good site to try is the GVU WWW User Survey at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/User_Survey_Home.html
For more information about the World Wide Web, consult the WWW FAQ at http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/index.html
For more on computer terminology, check out the Free Online Dictionary of
Computing at http://wfn-shop.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/foldoc
If computer abbreviations and acronyms have you confused, seek enlightenment at
BABEL, a dictionary of such alphabet soup at http://www.access.digex.net/~ikind/babel96a.html
But if you want become a real Net insider, you'll have to learn the slang; for
that, check out the latest version of the legendary Jargon File at http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html
2. MAke yourself known.
The following sites are the cream of the index crop at this time:
Alta Vista-A new and very fast site run by Digital. This system will become much more popular as people become aware of it. It is located at http://www.altavista.digital.com
Infoseek-A popular site with a good general-purpose index. The URL for Infoseek is http://www.infoseek.com
Inktomi-A new site at the University of California at Berkeley. It is very fast and complete but with an emphasis toward academic sites. You can find Inktomi at http://inktomi.berkeley.edu
Lycos-One of the granddaddies of the indexing world. Lycos started at Carnegie Mellon University. This huge site has a broad international database. It is located at http://www.lycos.com
Nerd World-A category-based system that has a dedicated following. Nerd World's main page is at http://www.nerdworld.com
Webcrawler-The biggest of the Web spiders, Webcrawler was started in 1994 at
the University of Washington, but it is now owned by America Online (see fig.
20.1). This system is one of the fastest available. You can find Webcrawler at http://webcrawler.com
Yahoo-The largest of the category-based systems, Yahoo started out as a hobby
but has grown into a major provider of search services (see fig. 20.2). It is
located at http://www.yahoo.com
Webcrawler is a Web spider that searches the Web for links to pages not in its
index.
Registering with the Search Servers
Registering with most of these servers is easy. Almost all sites have a page that you can access from the main page, with a form for adding your site to the system. If the server is a Web crawler, all you need to do is enter the URL for your page. The system then dispatches a robot to your page to examine it. This robot returns all the keywords found on your pages. Some servers also record the titles of your pages as well.
You real cannot keep a robot out of a Web page that's visible to the rest of the Internet. However, many of the robot writers follow an unofficial standard. If you include the file /robots.txt on your server with the proper information in it, many robots read the file and follow your wishes.
Submit-it is a nice forms-based system that
allows you to enter all the relevant data for your page, after which it
registers you with your choices of more than a dozen popular search tools (see
fig. 20.5). This service is provided for free and can help you to hit most of
the major search sites. You can found it at http://www.submit-it.com
Java Security
For more detailed information on the verifier, read the paper by Frank Yellin entitled "Low Level Security," available at URL: http://java.sun.com/sfaq/verifier.html
To see what a denial-of-service attack through Java might look like, check out the following resource that collects such hostile applets for demonstrations:
<URL: http://www.math.gatech.edu/~mladue/HostileApplets.html
JAVA
For more information on plug-ins, visit this site:
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator
version_2.0/plugins/index.html
PLUG ins
Plug-In Considerations
Why us a plug-in? Is it really worth my time to set up my server and learn all of this new HTML? Yes. Many Web sites now display mostly text, with a scattering of pictures which are mainly GIF and JPEG files. Although this is adequate for most standard Web sites, it is very static and really rather boring after someone visits there more than once. The growth of the Web has pushed developers to find new ways to attract people to come to their sites. A dynamic new format-such as Shockwave files-add an entirely new level of interactivity to the Web and allow Web sites to explore new ways to express their creativity. Also, there are many file formats such as Microsoft Word DOC files that most Web browsers cannot read, even though that format is commonly used outside the Web.
Plug-ins of this type allow sites to leverage their existing files, and take
the advantages of that format to the Web. Netscape's site and Browserwatch http://www.netscape.com
and http://www.browserwatch.com/plug-in.html
provide the Net community with a large list of available plug-ins, and are very
likely to have a more up-to-date list of plug-ins than the list that follows,
but the list is provided so you can begin to see what kinds of plug-ins are
being developed.
Sound Players
Crescendo By Liveupdate
Realaudio By Progressive Networks
Talker Plug-In By MVP Solutions
Toolvox By Voxware
Text Readers
These plug-ins allow you to read text-based formats that Netscape cannot read on its own. Many of these take over the browser window entirely in order to view the new file format, although Netscape's navigational buttons still appear at the top. Note that already popular word processing formats like Microsoft Word are viewable by Netscape because of plug-ins.
Acrobat Amber Reader By Adobe
Envoy Plug-In By Tumbleweed Software
Word Viewer Plug-In By Inso Corporation
VRML and 3-D Viewers
These plug-ins allow you to view three dimensional models -either in-lined (in a specified box size) or in an entirely new browser window. Live3d from Netscape uses a new format for VRML 2.0 that allows for motion, sound, and behaviours using Java.
Chemscape Chime By Mdl Information Systems
DWG/DXF Plug-In By Softsource
http://www.softsource.com/softsource
Live3d By Netscape
http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/navigator/live3d/download_live3d.html
SVF Plug-In By Softsource
http://www.softsource.com/softsource
VR Scout VRML Plug-In By Chaco Communications
Vrealm By Integrated Data Systems
WIRL Virtual Reality Browser By Vream
Graphic Formats Viewers
Corel Vector Graphics
leaf Inline By Carberry Technology/EBT
Lightning Strike By Infinet Op
http://www.infinop.com
Vdolive By Vdonet
Wavelet Image Viewer By Summus
Multimedia Players
These are the fastest-growing and most interesting of the plug-ins. These (and many others, by the time you read this) display animation, sound, and interactivity that will dramatically change the way a web page is used by web site developers. For instance, Shockwave, from Macromedia allows you to play small arcade-style games in a browser window, or display an interactive kiosk-style demo of a college campus.
ASAP Webshow By Software Publishing Corporation
Astound Web Player By Gold Disk
http://www.golddisk.com
Shockwave For Director By Macromedia
http://www.macromedia.com
Sizzler By Totally Hip
java
The Gamelan repository, at http://www.gamelan.com, contains a very large collection of information about Java, JavaScript, and many other Web-related topics. Their site boasts several hundred Java entries. Some are simple applet demonstrations, while others are full-blown development tools. Both commercial offerings and public domain code are represented. Their Java page is well worth visiting.
VB-OLE
My best recommendation to you as a scripter is to download the SDK for the
Microsoft ActiveXª enviroment (which includes the pre-release version of
Microsoft Iternet Explorer) at http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/sdk
. From there you should visit Microsoft's Visual Basic web site (at http://www.microsoft.com/vbscript/vbsmain.htm
. Once you get a familiarity with the language from here and the web site, you
should be well on your way to creating interactive web sites (literally
Internet-based applications) with Visual Basic Script.