Internet Users' Guide to Network Resource Tools - Netskills Version: 2000 Edition

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.

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 .

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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