Chapter 3: Using online services
Part 3: APPLICATIONS
Chapter 4: Hobby, games and fun
Chapter 5: Home, education and work
Chapter 6: Your personal HealthNet
Chapter 7: Electronic mail, telex, and fax
Chapter 8: Free expert assistance
Chapter 9: Your electronic daily news
Chapter 10: Finding a needle in a bottle of hay
Chapter 11: Getting an edge over your competitors
Chapter 12: Practical tips
Chapter 13: Cheaper and better communication
Chapter 14: Keep what you find
Chapter 15: You pay little for a lot!
Chapter 16: Automatic communication
Chapter 17: Gazing into the future
Appendix 1: Selected online services
Appendix 2: Getting started
Appendix 3: Online with the world
Appendix 4: Some frequently used terms
Access number,
Acronym, Address,
ANSI, ASCII,
ASCII_download,
Asynchronous_transfer,
Autodial,
Bandwidth, BBS,
Big5, Binary,
Binhex, Bits,
Bits per second (bps),
Boolean, Bounce,
Bps, Browse,
BTW, Bulletin
board, Carrier,
Character, CCITT,
COM port,
Compress,
Conference,
Connect time,
cps,
Cryptography,
Cyrillic, Data,
Database,
DCE/DTE,
Decompression,
Default, Dial-up
access, Downloading,
DTR, Duplex,
ECHO, Email,
Ethernet, File Name
Extensions, File
server, File transfer,
Flame, Freeware,
Full duplex,
Full-text_database,
Gateway, GuoBiao,
Half_duplex, Ham,
Handle, Header,
Host, Intranet,
ISDN, ISO,
ITU, JIS, ,
JPEG_(JPG), KB,
Kbits, LAN,
LDAP,
Leased-line,
Library, Login,
Lurking,
Mail_Gateway,
Mail_server,
Megabit_(Mb),
MHS, MIDI,
Modem, Moderator,
Mojikyo, MPEG,
MUD, No>m,
NAPLPS,
Netiquette,
Network, Nodes,
NUA, NUI,
Offline,
Offline_Reader,
Online, OSI,
Packet,
Packet_data_networks,
Packet_radio,
Packet_switching,
Password, PDF,
Petabit, Port,
Prompt, Protocol,
PTT,
Public_domain,
Qalam, QWK,
Real-time,
Router, Routing,
Script_files,
Search_engines,
Server,
Shareware,
Snail_mail, ,
Spam,
String_search,
Sysop, System,
T1, T3,
TAR,
Terminal_emulator,
Unicode, Unix,
Uploading, Virus,
VRML, X.25,
X.400, X.500 |
Appendix 5: Books, newsletters, etc.
Appendix 6: Web/Internet tools & pointers
Appendix 7: SERVICES OFFERING ACCESS TO INTERNET |