Internet Users' Guide to Network Resource Tools, 2000 Edition - Softcover

Isaacs, Terena; Isaacs, Margaret; TERENA

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201619059 ISBN 13: 9780201619058

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2000

Synopsis

It doesn't matter how long you've been online - every Internet user needs a little help sometimes.

This concise, no-nonsense guide to the best and most credible online tools and resources helps you find what you need on the Internet fast.

Written to help you make the most of your time online, the Internet Users' Guide to Network Resource Tools provides a quick and easy reference to the Internet and all its related technologies.

About this title

About the Author

TERENA (Trans-European Research and educational Networking Association) carries out technical activities and promotes development of computer networking for the European research and academic community.

Margaret Isaacs has been an Internet trainer and developer of training materials since the early days of the WWW, before the Internet reached its current status of mass popularity. She has her own Internet training and information consultancy.

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From the Back Cover

user needs a little help sometimes.

This concise, no-nonsense guide to the best and most credible online tools

and resources helps you find what you need on the Internet fast.

Written to help you make the most of your time online, the Internet Users’

Guide to Network Resource Tools provides a quick and easy reference to the

Internet and all its related technologies.

FEATURES:
Concise, hype-free explanation
Independent and authoritative advice
Comprehensive index and glossary
A wealth of URLs throughout

CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Searching – browsers, engines, directories and meta-search
Communication – mailing lists, conferencing, file exchange and chat
Publishing – authoring, graphics, multimedia and web databases
Security - encryption, authentication and privacy

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From the Inside Flap

Preface
The Guide to Network Resource Tools (GNRT) is produced by TERENA (Trans-European

Research and Education Networking Association) for the user community of its

member academic and research networks.

Though primarily intended for network users and user support staff in this community,

it is made freely available via the WWW to encourage and facilitate network

use.

Background
The GNRT was originally produced by EARN (European Academic and Research Network).

Printed as a booklet and registered in the Internet Engineering Task Forceís

FYI series, it became a very popular guide for end-users and support staff on

using the Internet. In 1996 an update of the GNRT was started by EARNís

successor, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association

(TERENA), which resulted in a completely new version, written for the Web, covering

a wide range of popular tasks and tools on the Internet today. In 1998, this

version was published as a book entitled Internet User's Guide to Network Resource

Tools by Addison-Wesley Longman. The GNRT is revised on an ongoing basis by

TERENA.

Acknowledgements
The principal author of the TERENA GNRT is Margaret Isaacs <magnet@ magnet-it.co.uk>.

TERENA Project Development Officer, Yuri Demchenko, provided technical support

and project development. A Review Panel representing the user community reviews

the work before public release.
The members of the Review Panel are: Dave Hartland (Newcastle University/NetSkills),

Miroslav Milinovic (SRCE/CARNet), Pl Axelsson (Uppsala University), Yvonne van

Holsteijn (SURFnet), Yuri Demchenko (TERENA), Karel Veitsch (TERENA).

Trademark notice
The following designations are trademarks or registered trademarks of the organisations

whose names follow in brackets: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PageMill, Photoshop (Adobe

Systems Inc.); LiveAgent (AgentSoft); Allaire Forums (Allaire); Bargain Finder

(Anderson Consulting); Apple VideoPhone, Macintosh, QuickTime (Apple Computer

Inc.); Autonomy Agentware (Autonomy Corporation); BBEdit (Bare Bones Software);

AltaVista, the AltaVista logo, the Digital logo, VMS (Digital Equipment Corporation);

Intelligent Concept Extraction, OpenText (Excite); HP-UX (Hewlett Packard Company);

Infoseek (a service mark of Infoseek Corporation); Communique (InSoft); Edition,

ProShare (Intel Corporation); AIX, OS/2 (International Business Machines Corporation);

LISTSERV (L-Soft International); Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes (Lotus Development

Corporation); Lycos (Lycos, Inc.); Internet Explorer, Jscript, MS-DOS, NetMeeting,

VBScript, Windows, Word (Microsoft Corporation); ICQ (Mirabilis); CoolTalk,

Netscape, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator, and Netscape logos (Netscape

Communications Corporation); NeXT (NeXT Computer, Inc.); PGP (Pretty Good Privacy,

Inc.); WebCompass (Quarterdeck Corporation); HotDog Pro (Sausage Software);

HoTMetaL PRO (SoftQuad); Community Place (Sony); SPARC, SPARCstation (Sparc

International Inc.); HotJava, Java, Solaris (Sun Microsystems Inc.); Searchí97

(Verity); CUSeeMe (White Pine Software); UNIX (licensed through X/Open Company

Ltd.).

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Preface The Guide to Network Resource Tools (GNRT) is produced by TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association) for the user community of its member academic and research networks.

Though primarily intended for network users and user support staff in this community, it is made freely available via the WWW to encourage and facilitate network use.

Background The GNRT was originally produced by EARN (European Academic and Research Network). Printed as a booklet and registered in the Internet Engineering Task Forces FYI series, it became a very popular guide for end-users and support staff on using the Internet. In 1996 an update of the GNRT was started by EARNs successor, the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA), which resulted in a completely new version, written for the Web, covering a wide range of popular tasks and tools on the Internet today. In 1998, this version was published as a book entitled Internet User's Guide to Network Resource Tools by Addison-Wesley Longman. The GNRT is revised on an ongoing basis by TERENA.

Acknowledgements The principal author of the TERENA GNRT is Margaret Isaacs . TERENA Project Development Officer, Yuri Demchenko, provided technical support and project development. A Review Panel representing the user community reviews the work before public release. The members of the Review Panel are: Dave Hartland (Newcastle University/NetSkills), Miroslav Milinovic (SRCE/CARNet), Pl Axelsson (Uppsala University), Yvonne van Holsteijn (SURFnet), Yuri Demchenko (TERENA), Karel Veitsch (TERENA).

Trademark notice The following designations are trademarks or registered trademarks of the organisations whose names follow in brackets: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe PageMill, Photoshop (Adobe Systems Inc.); LiveAgent (AgentSoft); Allaire Forums (Allaire); Bargain Finder (Anderson Consulting); Apple VideoPhone, Macintosh, QuickTime (Apple Computer Inc.); Autonomy Agentware (Autonomy Corporation); BBEdit (Bare Bones Software); AltaVista, the AltaVista logo, the Digital logo, VMS (Digital Equipment Corporation); Intelligent Concept Extraction, OpenText (Excite); HP-UX (Hewlett Packard Company); Infoseek (a service mark of Infoseek Corporation); Communique (InSoft); Edition, ProShare (Intel Corporation); AIX, OS/2 (International Business Machines Corporation); LISTSERV (L-Soft International); Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes (Lotus Development Corporation); Lycos (Lycos, Inc.); Internet Explorer, Jscript, MS-DOS, NetMeeting, VBScript, Windows, Word (Microsoft Corporation); ICQ (Mirabilis); CoolTalk, Netscape, Netscape Communicator, Netscape Navigator, and Netscape logos (Netscape Communications Corporation); NeXT (NeXT Computer, Inc.); PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.); WebCompass (Quarterdeck Corporation); HotDog Pro (Sausage Software); HoTMetaL PRO (SoftQuad); Community Place (Sony); SPARC, SPARCstation (Sparc International Inc.); HotJava, Java, Solaris (Sun Microsystems Inc.); Search97 (Verity); CUSeeMe (White Pine Software); UNIX (licensed through X/Open Company Ltd.).

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201619059
• ISBN 13: 9780201619058
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192