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Discovering the Internet
Version 2.3
Copyright © Mike Meredith, 1999. All Rights Reserved.
Contents
Introduction
Some History
ARPANET
The ``Poor Man's ARPANET'', Unix, UUCP, and USENET
Other Networks
Freedom and Censorship
Electronic Communications
Emoticons
Flames and Flaming
Spam
The Internet Provider, Intranets, the Matrix and Cyberspace
The World
The Speed and Reliability of the Internet
Technical Details
The Hardware Layer
Bandwidth
Routers
Firewalls
IP Addresses
The Next Level
Ports
Host Names and Domain Names
Some Basic Services
Ping
Terminal Sessions (Telnet)
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Electronic Mail
Mailing Lists
Abuse of Email
Directory Services (X.500 and LDAP)
More Services
USENET News
FAQs or Frequently Asked Questions
Campus-Wide Information Systems and Distributed Information Systems
Gopher
Internet Relay Chat
Distributed File Systems
NFS
The Andrew Filesystem
``Streaming'' Audio
Internet Telephony
``Streaming'' Video
Videoconferencing
The World-Wide-Web
The Browsers
HTML
URL's
Link Collections
Search Engines
Java and JavaScript
ActiveX
VRML
The Servers
``Secure'' Servers
Web Caches
CGI
The Future & Other Bits
Virtual Communities
Virtual Worlds
Intelligent Agents
Internet Access Devices
Microsoft's Plans
CyberWar and CyberTerrorism
Final Word
Appendix A: Tracing Spammers
Index
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