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    Surfing the Internet
    Surfing the Internet
    Surfing the Internet
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    Surfing the Internet

    By Jean Armour Polly

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Surfing the Internet - Jean Armour Polly

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Surfing the Internet, by Jean Armour Polly

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

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      Title: Surfing the Internet

      Author: Jean Armour Polly

      Posting Date: December 23, 2011 [EBook #49] Release Date: January, 1993

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SURFING THE INTERNET ***

      Surfing the INTERNET: an Introduction Version 2.0.2 December 15, 1992

      c. 1992 Jean Armour Polly. Material quoted from other authors was compiled from public Internet posts by those authors. No copyright claims are made for those compiled quotes. Permission to reprint is granted for nonprofit educational purposes. Please let me know if you find this compilation useful. This first (much shorter) version of this appeared in the June, 1992 Wilson Library Bulletin. Please include this entire copyright/copy notice if you duplicate this document. Updates may be ftp'd:

      ftp nysernet.org (192.77.173.2) login anonymous password name@machine.node cd /pub/resources/guides

      Please choose the most current version of surfing.the.internet.

      Please send updates and corrections to: jpolly@nysernet.org

      Today I'll travel to Minnesota, Texas, California, Cleveland, New Zealand, Sweden, and England. I'm not frantically packing, and I won't pick up any frequent flyer mileage. In fact, I'm sipping cocoa at my Macintosh. My trips will be electronic, using the computer on my desk, communications software, a modem, and a standard phone line.

      I'll be using the Internet, the global network of computers and their interconnections, which lets me skip like a stone across oceans and continents and control computers at remote sites. I haven't visited Antarctica yet, but it is only a matter of time before a host computer becomes available there!

      This short, non-technical article is an introduction to Internet communications and how librarians and libraries can benefit from net connectivity. Following will be descriptions of electronic mail, discussion lists, electronic journals and texts, and resources available to those willing to explore. Historical details about the building of the Internet and technical details regarding network speed and bandwidth are outside the scope of this piece.

      What's Out There Anyway?

      Until you use a radio receiver, you are unaware of the wealth of programming, music, and information otherwise invisible to you. Computer networks are much the same. About one million people worldwide use the Internet daily. Information packet traffic rises by 12% each month.

      About 727,000 host computers are connected, according to a January, 1992 report (Network Working Group Request for Comments: 1296) by Mark K. Lottor. So, what's all the excitement about? What's zipping around in that fiber and cable and ether, anyway?

      On my electronic adventure I browsed the online catalog at the University

      Library in Liverpool, England, leaving some "Hi there from Liverpool, New

      York" mail for the librarian.

      I downloaded some new Macintosh anti-virus software from Stanford's

      SUMEX archive.

      Then I checked a few databases for information needed for this article, and scanned today's news stories.

      I looked at the weather forecast for here in the East and for the San Francisco Bay area, forwarding that information to a friend in San Jose who would read it when he woke up. The Internet never closes!

      After that I read some electronic mail from other librarians in Israel, Korea, England, Australia and all over the U.S. We're exchanging information about how to keep viruses off public

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