Zen and the Art of the Internet

A Beginner's Guide to the Internet

First Edition

January 1992

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Network Basics
  • Domains
  • Internet Numbers
  • Resolving Names and Numbers
  • The Networks
  • The Physical Connection
• Electronic Mail
  • Email Addresses
    • %@!.: Symbolic Cacophony
    • Sending and Receiving Mail
    • Anatomy of a Mail Header
    • Bounced Mail
  • Mailing Lists
    • Listservs
• Anonymous FTP
  • FTP Etiquette
  • Basic Commands
    • Creating the Connection
    • dir
    • cd
    • get and put
      • ASCII vs Binary
      • mget and mput
  • The archie Server
    • Using archie Today
    • archie Clients
    • Mailing archie
    • The whatis database
• Usenet News
  • What Usenet Is
  • The Diversity of Usenet
  • What Usenet Is Not
  • Propagation of News
  • Group Creation
  • If You're Unhappy...
  • The History of Usenet (The ABCs)
  • Hierarchies
  • Moderated vs Unmoderated
  • news.groups & news.announce.newgroups
  • How Usenet Works
  • Mail Gateways
  • Usenet "Netiquette"
    • Signatures
    • Posting Personal Messages
    • Posting Mail
    • Test Messages
    • Famous People Appearing
    • Summaries
    • Quoting
    • Crossposting
    • Recent News
    • Quality of Postings
    • Useful Subjects
    • Tone of Voice
    • Computer Religion
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • The Pit-Manager Archive
• Telnet
  • Using Telnet
    • Telnet Ports
  • Publicly Accessible Libraries
  • The Cleveland Freenet
  • Directories
    • Knowbot
    • White Pages
  • Databases
    • Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL)
    • PENpages
    • Clemson Univ. Forestry & Agricultural Network
    • University of Maryland Info Database
    • University of Michigan Weather Underground
    • Geographic Name Server
    • FEDIX--Minority Scholarship Information
    • Science & Technology Information System
    • Ocean Network Information Center
    • NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
    • U.S. Naval Observatory Automated Data Service
• Various Tools
  • Finger
  • Ping
  • Talk
  • The WHOIS Database
    • Other Uses of WHOIS
• Commercial Services
  • Electronic Journals
  • Commercial Databases
  • Clarinet News
• Things You'll Hear About
  • The Internet Worm
  • The Cuckoo's Egg
  • Organizations
    • The Association for Computing Machinery
    • Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
    • The Electronic Frontier Foundation
    • The Free Software Foundation
    • The League for Programming Freedom
  • Networking Initiatives
    • NREN
• Finding Out More
  • Internet Resource Guide
  • Requests for Comments
• Conclusion
• Getting to Other Networks
• Retrieving Files via Email
  • Archive Servers
  • FTP-by-Mail Servers
• Newsgroup Creation
  • Discussion
  • Voting
  • The Result of a Vote
  • Creation of the Group
• Glossary
• Bibliography
  • Books
  • Periodicals & Papers
• Index