Harley Hahn's Internet Advisor

Contents

• 1 Understanding the Internet 1
• 2 An Overview of the Internet 19
• 3 Everything You Need to Connect to the Net 37
• 4 Internet Addresses 65
• 5 Mail 93
• 6 Using Mail Well 119
• 7 The Web 139
• 8 Talking on the Net 169
• 9 Downloading and Installing Software 199
• 10 Music on the Net 213
• 11 Finding Stuff on the Net 229
• 12 Safety, Security and Privacy 251
• 13 Usenet 281
• 14 Mailing Lists 313
• 15 Creating Your Own Web Site 331
• 16 Getting Your Own Domain Name 355
• 17 How to Do Stuff 363
• A List of Top-Level Internet Domains 381
• B Time Zones on the Internet 391
• C Abbreviations Used When Talking on the Net 395
• Glossary 401
• Index 433
• List of Figures
• Figure 1-1 Important Internet (TCP/IP) protocols 9
• Figure 2-1 Important clients and servers used on the Internet 36
• Figure 3-1 Various ways to connect to an ISP 49
• Figure 4-1 Organizational top-level domains 67
• Figure 4-2 Examples of geographical top-level domains 68
• Figure 4-3 The most common schemes used within URLs 82
• Figure 4-4 The most common file extensions used on the Internet 85
• Figure 5-1 A typical mail message 102
• Figure 5-2 A typical mail message showing the full header 104
• Figure 5-3 The life cycle of a mail message 110
• Figure 6-1 An example of a good mail message 122
• Figure 6-2 An example of a bad mail message 123
• Figure 6-3 Common abbreviations used in mail messages 127
• Figure 7-1 A typical Web page within Internet Explorer 143
• Figure 7-2 Variations in the appearance of Internet Explorer 144
• Figure 7-3 A Web page with frames 153
• Figure 7-4 A typical Favorites list within Internet Explorer 163
• Figure 8-1 An instant messaging conversation 174
• Figure 8-2 Instant Messaging systems: lists of names 174
• Figure 8-3 A chat room using a Java talk client 176
• Figure 8-4 A chat room using a browser as a talk client 177
• Figure 8-5 Abbreviations used while talking on the Net 179
• Figure 8-6 A typical IRC session 185
• Figure 8-7 Important IRC commands 187
• Figure 8-8 An imaginary setting within a mud 190
• Figure 8-9 Standard port numbers used on the Internet 192
• Figure 9-1 The most common file extensions used on the Web 201
• Figure 9-2 Dialog box asking to download an ActiveX control 205
• Figure 9-3 Beginning a download with Internet Explorer 207
• Figure 9-4 Specifying where to save a downloaded file 207
• Figure 11-1 Custom buttons for accessing search engines 238
• Figure 11-2 The Internet Explorer search facility 239
• Figure 11-3 Entering a search request into the address bar 240
• Figure 11-4 Entering a search request into an address window 242
• Figure 12-1 Security warning when sending data 255
• Figure 12-2 File extensions of attachments that are unsafe to open 268
• Figure 12-3 File extensions of attachments that are safe to open 268
• Figure 13-1 The seven original Usenet hierarchies 290
• Figure 13-2 Mainstream and alternative Usenet hierarchies 291
• Figure 13-3 The most important Usenet hierarchies 292
• Figure 13-4 Examples of regional and organizational hierarchies 293
• Figure 13-5 Sample Usenet newsgroups 293
• Figure 13-6 Reading a Usenet article with Outlook Express (Internet Explorer) 297
• Figure 13-7 Newsgroups to which FAQs are posted 300
• Figure 13-8 Some of the abbreviations commonly used on Usenet 301
• Figure 13-9 Related Usenet newsgroups, including a misc group 303
• Figure 13-10 Examples of Usenet newsgroups that contain pictures 305
• Figure 13-11 Usenet groups to which you can send test messages 307
• Figure 14-1 Examples of mailing lists 319
• Figure 14-2 Subscribing and unsubscribing to a mailing list 322
• Figure 14-3 Summary of important Listserv commands 325
• Figure 14-4 Summary of important Listproc commands 326
• Figure 14-5 Summary of important Majordomo commands 326
• Figure 14-6 Examples of gatewayed Bitnet mailing lists 329
• Figure 15-1 HTML for a simple Web page 335
• Figure 15-2 A simple Web page 336
• Figure 15-3 The most important HTML tags 337
• Figure 15-4 A Web page containing a table 341
• Figure 15-5 A Web page containing a form 341
• Figure 15-6 A Web page containing frames 342
• Figure 16-1 Whois information for a typical domain name 360
• Figure B-1 The 24-hour time system compared to the AM/PM system 394
• Figure B-2 U.S. time zones compared to GMT 394
• Figure C-1 Abbreviations used while talking on the Net 397