Computer Information from Around the World

Contents

Computing Dictionaries, Glossaries, and other Reference Materials

• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• A short list of networking terms
• Abbreviations for ISDN and Data Communications
• Data Communications (Telecom) terms
• The Telecommunications Glossary
• The World Wide Web Network Acronym Server

Computing Vendors on the Web

• A BIG list of Vendors
• Guide to Computer Vendors
• Apple Sites on the Internet
• Compaq Computer Corporation
• Dell Computer Corporation
• FTP Software, Inc.
• Hewlett-Packard
• Hewlett-Packard's Workstation Systems Group
• Intel Corporation
• International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation
• IBM Kiosk for Education
• IBM Austin
• IBM Gopher Server
• Microsoft Corporation
• Microsoft Research
• Novell
• SUN Microsystems, Inc.
• SUN - UNC

Electronic Mail

• Berkeley mail (the standard)
• Elm
• Eudora
• Qualcomm's Eudora Information Page
• MIME
• NuPOP
• An Introduction to (UNIX) Pine
• The Pine Information Center
• The LISTSERV User Guide - LISTSERV is a program for managing electronic mailing lists
• Mark Zinzow's Mailing List Info
• Yahoo's Electronic Mail Page

  If you need more information about how your message gets from point A to point B, see: Zen and the Art of the Internet - Electronic Mail.

  If you are new to electronic mail, you should probably read up a little on e-mail etiquette ("netiquette") from one of the following sources:

• The UIUC College of ACES's The Concept of E-mail
• alpha.acast.nova's Intro to E-mail
• Arlene Rinaldi's Netiquette document
• Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
• BGSU's Netiquette: Some Common Courtesies
• Andrew Kantor's A Beginner's Guide to Effective E-mail

General Information

• CCSO Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Computing Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Yahoo's Computers Page

HTML and WWW Home Pages

HTML for Beginners

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• Russ Jones's HTML Overview
• Yahoo's HTML Page
• Peter Flynn's How to Write HTML (once you get past the first technical section, it eases up; bear with it).
• The W3 HyperText MarkUp Language (HTML) Reference Page
• W3 and HTML Tools (page listing HTML tools for all computer platforms)
• HTML Quick Reference
• HTML JumpStation
• Dennis Horn's HTML Tutorial
• Nathan Torkington's Introduction to HTML
• HTML- the complete-ish guide
• Web Communications' Publishing on the Web
• HTML Symbol Table
• The Ziff-Davis Crash Course on Writing Documents for the Web

HTML for Advanced Users

• NCSA's CGI Spec
• NCSA's Forms overview
• CAI (the Tutorial Gateway) w/Mosaic Forms and CGI
• Carlos' Forms Tutorial
• UKansas' Intro to Forms
• Clickable Maps
• Special Characters
• The Netscape Extensions to HTML
• Tables as Implemented in Netscape 1.1
• Controlling Document Backgrounds
• Dynamic Documents

HTML Editors

• Gabriel's HTML Editor List (list of editors for all platforms)
• HTML Editor (Mac)
• Web Weaver (Mac)
• BBEdit HTML Extensions (Mac)
• HTMLed (Microsoft Windows)
• HTML Assistant (Microsoft Windows)
• HTML Writer (Microsoft Windows)
• Yahoo's HTML Converters Page (links to programs that convert various file formats to HTML)

HTML Style Guides

• Elements of HTML Style
• W3's Style Guide
• NCSA's Guides to Writing HTML Documents

Setting Up Home Pages

• Setting Up Personal Web Pages on Your CCSO UNIX Account
• Mike Fitzsimmon's So ya wanna have a home page, huh? (for UIUC students and staff with Engineering Workstation accounts)
• Recommendations for UIUC Home Pages
• The ph Homepage Redirector (how to set up and advertise a machine-independent URL for your home page)
• UIUC People (hypertext list of UIUC faculty, staff, and students with home pages; includes a form for adding yourself to the list)
• The GNN Home Page Construction Kit

The Internet

• Ed Krol's definition and discussion of the Internet
• GNN's Internet Help Desk
• John December's collection of information on the Internet and its resources
• Ed Kubaitis' Exploring the Internet, with lists of lists, search tools, and more
• Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet
• Brendan P. Kehoe's Zen and the Art of the Internet
• The UIUC College of ACES's Discovery System Networking Module
• Ed Burns' quickie Intro to the UIUC computing environment and bares bone net.guide
• Steve Franklin's Newbie's Guide to the Net
• Nikos Drakos' Subjective Electronic Information Repository
• MecklerWeb's Internet World or Internet Page
• Yahoo's Hotlist is one of the best ways to find stuff on the Internet
• Mark Zinzow's Internet Access References with rates for local SLIP dial-up and ISDN providers.
• Daniel LaLiberte has a whole bunch of links on Searching the Web

Macs and the Mac OS

• Apple Sites on the Internet (a current list of ftp, www, and gopher sites maintained by Apple Computer Corporation)
• Yahoo's Macintosh Page
• The Well Connected Mac (a Macintosh Information Web page maintained by Rusty Elliotte Harold)
• The Internet Computer Index--Mac Index (a potpourri of information about Macs)
• CU Macintosh Users Group
• Macintosh Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Usenet Newsgroups about Macs

Networking

• USENET Newsgroups about Networking
• The Ethernet Home Page (everything you ever wanted to know about Ethernets *but were afraid to ask, brought to you by the University of Texas)
• Internet Documentation (RFCs, FYIs, STDs, IDs)
• Network Reference Information (from Stanford University)
• Yahoo's Networks and Data Communications Page
• Getting Wired: Connecting to the Campus Network (UIUCnet) from Home (links to locally written guides and references)
• Network Administrator's Survival Handbook (guide to network administration at UIUC)

PCs and PC Operating Systems

• The Internet Computer Index--PC Index (a potpourri of information about PCs)
• The PC ExpressNet WWW Server (pointers to zillions of PC-related documents and servers on the Internet)
• PC Lube and Tune (outstanding collection of information about PC hardware, software, and operating systems)
• Usenet Newsgroups about PCs
• Yahoo's Personal Computers Page
• Yahoo's OS/2 Page
• Yahoo's Microsoft Windows Page
• Yahoo's Microsoft Windows NT Page
• The UIUC OS/2 Guide (includes information on configuring dynamic SLIP access to the UIUC terminal servers under OS/2)
• The Windows NT Information Page (from the Goddard Space Flight Center)

On-line Computing Periodicals and Documentation Libraries

• Indiana University -- University Computing Services Publications
• University of Michigan On- line Documentation Database
• The Linux Documentation Project
• Yahoo's UNIX man Pages On Line
• Yahoo's Computers and Technology Magazines Page

UNIX Machines and Operating Systems

• UNIX Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• The UIUC Linux Users' Group
• The NeXT Home Page
• Yahoo's UNIX Page (links to information about all flavors of UNIX)
• Usenet Newsgroups about UNIX
• UNIX is a Four Letter Word

UNIX Text Editors

• vi Text Editing
• GNU emacs manual
• emacs Reference Materials

World Wide Web

• W3C's WWW information pages
• Kevin Hughes' Guide to Cyberspace
• The WWW FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Yahoo's World Wide Web Page

World Wide Web Browsers

• The Netscape Handbook
• The UIUC College of ACES's Netscape Tutorial from the AIM Lab Discovery System Networking Module
• NCSA Mosaic for the Mac User's Guide
• NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows User's Guide
• NCSA Mosaic for the X Windows System User's Guide