"WHERE TO START" FOR NEW INTERNET USERS Jim Milles Ver. 1.4 12/14/93 1. E-mail systems vary widely. For help with most e-mail questions (signature files, quoting, and so on), contact your local computer support personnel or your Internet service provider. 2. Some recommended books for new users of the Internet: LaQuey, Tracy. _The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking_. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. (Read this first; the best guide for the true beginner, useful even for the pre-beginner who has not yet signed on to the Internet.) Krol, Ed. _The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog_. Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1992. (Read this after LaQuey; much more in-depth and comprehensive, at this writing Krol is *the* essential guide to the Internet.) Other useful books for new users: Aboba, Bernard. _The Online User's Encyclopedia: Bulletin Boards and Beyond_. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1994. (A remarkably useful and comprehensive work, covering everything from the basics of computer communications, to using local bulletin boards, to the intricacies of the Internet.) Dern, Daniel P. _The Internet Guide for New Users_. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. (Dern is the editor of _Internet World_ magazine and author of numerous articles on the Internet in many other publications.) Fisher, Sharon. _Riding the Internet Highway_. Carmel, Indiana: New Riders Pub., 1993. Fraase, Michael. _The Mac Internet Tour Guide: Cruising the Internet the Easy Way_. Chapel Hill NC: Ventana Press, 1993. (The first Internet guide written for Macintosh users; includes a 800K disc containing useful software.) Gardner, James. _A DOS User's Guide to the Internet_. Waterloo, ON, Canada: MKS [Mortice Kern Systems], 1993. Gibbs, Mark and Richard Smith. _Navigating the Internet_. Carmel, Indiana: SAMS Publishing, 1993. Gilster, Paul. _The Internet Navigator_. New York: John Wiley, 1993. Hahn, Harley & Rick Stout. _The Internet Complete Reference_. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1993. (Several people have called this the best of the new crop of Internet books.) Kehoe, Brendan. _Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide_. 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1993. (One of the first and most popular guides to the Internet. The first edition was distributed for free on the Internet, and is still available at many anonymous ftp sites, e.g. nic.merit.edu, directory /introducing.the.internet, filename zen.txt.) Kochmer, Jonathan and NorthWestNet. _The Internet Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our World Online_. 4th ed. Bellevue, WA: NorthWestNet, 1993. (A comprehensive guide to Internet resources, comparable to Krol's _The Whole Internet_ but even broader in scope. It covers a number of areas that other guides ignore.) Lambert, Steve & Walt Howe. _Internet Basics_. New York: Random House, 1993. (Although this is a good, general guide to the Internet for any user, it is especially useful for those who access the Internet through the commercial Delphi information service.) Levine, John R. and Carol Baroudi. _The Internet for Dummies_. San Mateo, California: IDG Books, 1993. (A very useful, well organized, and readable book, one of the publisher's popular "... for Dummies" series.) Marine, April; Kirkpatric, Susan; Neou, Vivian; and Ward, Carol. _Internet: Getting Started_. Menlo Park, California: SRI International, 1992. (Includes useful information on how to obtain Internet access, as well as other technical reference material.) Quarterman, John S. _The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide_. Bedford, MA: Digital Press, 1990. (A comprehensive guide to the history and present--as of 1990--state of the Internet and its component and related networks. Recommended for those who want to learn the background and history of the Internet.) Tennant, Roy, John Ober, & Anne G. Lipow. _Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook_. Berkeley, CA: Library Solutions Press, 1993. (Includes helpful fact sheets on various Internet tools from ftp and telnet to archie, gopher, WAIS, and World-Wide Web.) 3. For those who know enough about using the Internet to be able to use "ftp," the following sources are very useful (note that they are regularly updated, so the version numbers and file names may change): Martin, Jerry. "There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places." RFC 1402, January 1993. Available via anonymous ftp from nic.merit.edu, directory /introducing.the.internet, filename network.gold. "NYSERNet New User's Guide to Useful and Unique Resources on the Internet." Version 2.2, April 1992. Available via anonymous ftp from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides, filename new.user.guide.V2.2.txt Polly, Jean Armour. "Surfing the INTERNET: An Introduction." Version 2.0.2, December 16, 1992. Available via anonymous ftp from nysernet.org, directory /pub/guides, file surfing.2.0.2.txt. "SURAnet Guide to Selected Internet Resources." January 1993. Available via anonymous ftp from ftp.sura.net, directory /pub/nic, file infoguide.1-93.txt. Yanoff, Scott. "Special Internet Connections" (updated frequently). A list of interesting and useful selection showing the broad range of Internet resources, including a few Online Public Access Catalogs, chat lines, weather servers, Campus Wide Information Systems, and other reference resources. Available via anonymous ftp from csd4.csd.uwm.edu, directory /pub, filename inet.services.txt. 4. For information on how to get connected to the Internet: Engle, Mary, Marilyn Lutz, William W. Jones, Jr., and Genevieve Engel. _Internet Connections: A Librarian's Guide to Dial-Up Access and Use_. Lita Monographs 3. Chicago: Library and Information Technology Association, 1993. Estrada, Susan. _Connecting to the Internet: An O'Reilly Buyer's Guide_. Sebastapol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1993. Jim Milles (listowner, NETTRAIN@UBVM) Phone: (314) 658-2759 Head of Computer Services Fax: (314) 658-3966 Saint Louis University Law Library 3700 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63108 E-mail: millesjg@sluvca.slu.edu