Chapter 2 Links and Resources: Internet-Related

1. In order to explore Telnet, you will need to get the Telnet program or "client." Telnet clients are available for free or as shareware from Tucows at http://www.tucows.com and Shareware.com at http://www.shareware.com.

2. To find libraries (and other resources) available via Telnet, look through the Hytelnet database, available online at http://www.cam.ac.uk/Hytelnet/index.html

3. For available resources on Internet Relay Chat (IRC), see IRC Central at http://www.connected-media.com/IRC/.

4. For general information on Internet chat, see David Barbieri's Meta Chats: The Internet Chat Resource Guide at http://www.2meta.com/chats/. Barbieri has a listing of historic IRC logs at http://www.2meta.com/chats/university/.

5. Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences at http://n2h2.com/KOVACS/ is a database of academic listservs which can be searched by keyword, by subject or alphabetically by listserv name.

6. Usenet can be searched using any of the top search engines or by going to Deja News at http://www.dejanews.com/.

7. To search Usenet postings, use Where is the archive for newsgroup X? at http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/news.lists/newsgroup_archives.html.

8. Liszt, the Mailing List Directory at http://www.liszt.com/, another listing of newsgroups, "is basically a mailing-list spider; it queries servers from around the world and compiles the results into a single directory. This method ensures that the data Liszt provides is always up-to-date, since it comes direct from the list servers each week." Includes an education category.

9. World Wide Web Consortium at http://www.w3.org, directed by Tim Berners-Lee, is an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission of realizing the full potential of the Web. "Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users; reference code implementations to embody and promote standards and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology."

10. An Atlas of Cyberspaces at http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html is an online atlas to the Internet and the Web. This collection of maps is a good way to visualize the "new digital landscapes on our computer screen and in the wires of the global communications networks."