SEE [[https://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_toc.html|Zen and the Art of the Internet]]: A Beginner's \\ Guide to the Internet, First Edition, January 1992 HTML format {{:ZenAndTheArtOfTheInternet.pdf|Zen and the Art of the Internet}} PDF format [[./zen and the art of the internet/etext|etext version]] * [[./zen and the art of the internet/preface|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