Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 15:54:55 -0600
THE ONLINE WORLD - online resources handbook
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(New release: July 5, 1994)
The Online World resources handbook is out in its seventh release, and can
be retrieved by modem from services all over the world.
Version 1.6 has new pointers to services that can help you learn and use
foreign languages, how to find books in other languages than English, six
news digests on Africa, new sources on China, international political and
economic news from British Broadcasting Corporation (BBS).
There are more: How to get this week's currency exchange rates, The
Information Bank on African Development Studies (a World Bank project),
Encyclopaedia Britannica, how to access MCI Mail from the Internet.
Since the book's last release in May, it has a further strengthened focus on
resources in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and Europe. It contains less
about online services in North America than you may be accustomed to. . .
The more technically inclined will check out the new pointers on satellites,
amateur and packet radio, information about an Internet clipping service,
about how to find lists of periodic postings (FAQs) to Usenet, on QWK, .tar-
files, more on compression, ftp via Gopher, finding the best gophers in the
world, GopherMail, IRC, Linux, Lynx, WAIS FAQ, the WebCrawler database of WWW
information pages, Internet tools, and more.
It sure does not stand still! The Internet is moving so fast that printed
books are obsolete the moment they appear in print. Not so with this book.
A new version appears every second month.
>From his electronic cottage on the southern coast of Norway, author Odd de
Presno advises on the practical use of the GLOBAL online information
resource.
(His house stands in a small bay, about 7 kilometers from Arendal. It is
so close to the ocean, that his computers could potentially exchange
views with fish and seagulls. :-)
The book explores selected applications across continent, country, network
and service boundaries to show how user needs can be met.
Examples range from databases to entertainment and the bizarre to special
services for professionals and organizations. He shares insights on the
use of major global networks and services as the Internet, Usenet, BITNET,
Fidonet, Echo, CompuServe, DIMDI, NIFTY-Serve, and others.
de Presno has more than 20 years of experience with online services, both
as a service provider and a heavy user. In his spare time, he runs KIDLINK,
a global network for kids 10 - 15 years of age. Since he founded it in
1990, over 23,000 kids in 62 countries have participated in the programs.
Through a network of partners, local versions of the book are in the
process of being published in several countries. It is already available in
Norway and Germany. Partners in Finland, Denmark and Canada are working
under contract with local publishers. Partners in Spain and Iceland are
onto self-publishing projects.
Thus, it will soon be available on print in Danish, English, Finnish,
German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Spanish.
For bakground information :
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The easy way
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Gopher to cosn.org. Select: Networking Information/Reference/The Online
World.
The gopher at wuecon.wustl.edu 671 lets you read "The Online Book by
Chapter/", and has the choice "SEARCH Online Book <?>." Select "Online
Book" from the main menu.
For information about KIDLINK, gopher kids.ccit.duq.edu 70 .
Information by email
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Send your requests to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU (or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1 on
BITNET) . Put the following type of command in the TEXT of your mail to
retrieve desired documents (the subject line is ignored) :
GET <archive name> <file name>
Replace <archive name> and <file name> by names from the list below.
Archive File What does this file contain?
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TOW INDEX The Online World book's contents
TOW WHERE How to retrieve The Online World shareware
book by modem?
TOW OPRESNO Who is Odd de Presno?
TOW WHATSNEW The book's update history.
TOW MONITOR Information about The Online World Monitor
newsletter
KIDLINK GENERAL What is KIDLINK?
Example: To get the file INDEX, use the command
GET TOW INDEX
Personal attention
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Write me at opresno@extern.uio.no , or by fax to +47-370-27111 , and I
will reply as soon as possible.
Thanks,
Odd de Presno
(Author, publisher, Norwegian)