Chapter 1: What Is This Book About? Something for Everyone What You Will Learn What You Need What an Internet Connection Means How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 2: What Is the Internet? How Did the Internet Get Started? What Makes Up the Internet? Who Governs the Internet? Who Pays for It? What Does This Mean for Me? What Does the Future Hold?
Chapter 3: How the Internet Works Moving Bits from One Place to Another Making the Network Friendly
Chapter 4: What's Allowed on the Internet? Historical Perspective Legal Implications Network Ethics Ethics and the Private Commercial Internet Security Consciousness
Chapter 5: Electronic Mail When Is E-Mail Useful? Hints for Writing E-Mail How E-Mail Works Acquiring E-Mail Addresses Choosing an E-Mail Package Exchange--Windows 95's E-Mail Package Sending Other Documents in E-Mail Messages Unusual and Non-Standard Features When E-Mail Gets Returned Mail Lists and Reflectors Accessing Mailing List Archives The Eudora E-Mail Package
Chapter 6: The World Wide Web Getting Started Navigating the Web with Internet Explorer Navigating the Web with Netscape Navigator Working with Other Services Creating Your Own Home Page Windows 95 on the Web Where the Web Is Going
Chapter 7: Network News Newsgroups and News System Organization Getting Started Reading News Posting Articles A Summary of Trumpet Commands Other Hints and Conventions A Different Approach: Netscape Navigator
Chapter 8: Remote Login Connecting a Remote Computer Non-Standard Telnet Servers Telnet Program Options Telneting to IBM Mainframes
Chapter 9: Moving Files: FTP Introducing Windows 95 FTP Anonymous FTP Browsing on a Remote Machine Moving Files in Private Accounts ASCII and Binary Transfers Handling Large Files and Groups of Files A More Friendly FTP FTP Over the Web Hints, Advice, and Problems File Retrieval Using E-Mail
Chapter 10: Finding Files How Archie Works Contacting Archie Using Archie from the Web Special-Purpose Archie Clients Contacting an Archie Client Remotely
Chapter 11: Finding Someone Why Isn't There a Single Internet Directory? CSO Directories Finding a User on a Specific System Whois The USENET User List X.500 Directory Services Knowbot Information Service Netfind Four11 In Closing
Chapter 12: Tunneling Through the Internet: Gopher The Internet Gopher Working with Gopher Resources Searching with Gopher Remembering Where You Are The Web and Gopher A Last Word
Chapter 13: Searching Indexed Databases: WAIS How WAIS Works Getting Access WAIS and the Web Public WAIS Clients What the Future Holds
Chapter 14: Other Applications Time Services Fax Over the Internet Diversions Audio and Video PGP--Privacy and Encryption
Chapter 15: Dealing with Problems The Ground Rules Gather Baseline Information The Battle Plan Talking to Operations Personnel
Resources on the Internet Stalking the Wild Resource A Few Special Resources How We Did It Using the Catalog The Whole Internet Catalog
Appendix A: Getting Connected to the Internet Grades of Service Service Providers
Appendix B: Setting Up Your Internet Connection Microsoft Internet Jumpstart Kit Windows 95 PPP Windows 95 on a LAN Microsoft Exchange
Appendix C: International Network Connectivity Country Codes and Connectivity
Appendix D: The Microsoft Network Accessing the Microsoft Network Exploring MSN MSN and the Internet Some Final Thoughts
Appendix E: Internet Explorer 2.0 and Netscape Navigator 2.0 Internet Explorer 2.0 Netscape Navigator 2.0 Netscape Navigator Gold Glossary Index