The Web Empowerment Book: An Introduction and Connection Guide to the Internet and the World-Wide Web - Brossura

Abraham, Ralph; Jas, Frank; Russell, Willard

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ISBN 10: 0387944311 ISBN 13: 9780387944319

Casa editrice: Springer, 1995

Riassunto

The Web Empowerment Book is devoted entirely to prospective home users of the Internet. The authors' primary emphasis is on accessing the World Wide Web: a smooth, graphically-oriented system for viewing information from universities, businesses, government, and individuals anywhere in the world.
This book gives you both an armchair tour of Internet resources in color, as well as presenting all the concepts you need to get connected. In three well-explained steps it describes how to get wired to the Internet and the World Wide Web inexpensively and easily using conventional phone technology.
This handy guide also provides a concise introduction to the UNIX commands typically available from an Internet Access Provider's machine. The Internet and UNIX grew up together, so some literacy in UNIX, while not required, is desirable, since you may need UNIX to obtain software over the Internet.
As a special feature, packages of free software for connecting Windows and the Macintosh are provided at the authors' own Internet sites, and at other sites listed in the book.

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Contenuti

1 An Introduction to the World-Wide Web.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 The history of the Internet.- 1.2 Two classes of people.- 1.3 Five steps in the evolution of the WWW.- 1.4 Personal computing in the 1980s.- 1.6 Four levels of citizenship.- 1.7 A miniature WWW FAQ.- 1.8 The plan of this book.- 1.9 Our mission.- 2 A Brief Tour.- 2.1 The population of India.- 2.2 The secret is good guessing.- 2.3 Backtracking.- 2.4 What is unique to the WWW.- 2.5 How can I use it if I don’t know what’s there.- 2.6 Chaos reigns in the Internet jungle.- 3 WWW Basics.- 3.1 The Internet at level.- 3.2 Enter hypertext: the WWW.- 3.3 WWW modes: http, gopher, ftp, wais, telnet.- 3.4 URLs: addresses on the WWW.- 3.5 File types on the WWW.- 3.6 Multimedia displayers.- 3.7 The difference between HTML and http.- 4 Hypertext.- 4.1 What is hypertext.- 4.2 Your first jump.- 4.3 A file is one long page.- 4.4 Hot text and jumps.- 4.5 HTML format and anchors.- 4.6 Inline graphics, cold.- 4.7 Inline graphics, hot.- 4.8 Inline hypergraphics (maps, imagemaps).- 4.9 Side-window jumps.- 4.10 Hotlists and bookmarks.- 4.11 Forms.- 5 Hypermedia.- 5.1 Traffic.- 5.2 Speed limits.- 5.3 The future of the Internet.- 5.4 Graphics formats and displayers.- 5.5 Sound formats and players.- 5.6 Movie formats and players.- 5.7 Other file types.- 2 Empowerment for the World-Wide Web.- 6 Internet Access Providers.- 6.1 The real obstacle.- 6.2 What is the difference between SLIP and PPP.- 6.3 Alternatives to SLIP or PPP.- 6.4 List of Internet Access Providers by state.- 7 How To Get Connected.- 7.1 Level 1: No WWWay.- 7.2 Level 0: ASCII and you shall receive.- 7.3 Level 1: have modem will travel.- 7.4 Level 2: SLIP me up Scotty (Windows).- 7.5 Level 2: SLIP me up Scotty (Macintosh).- 7.6 Level 3: Jacked in and ready for action.- 7.7 Level 4: Totally WWWebbed.- 8 Macintosh Bootstrap.- 8.1 From level 2 to level.- 8.2 From level 1 to level.- 8.3 Configuring MacTCP and InterSLIP.- 8.4 Internet addresses.- 8.5 What is a network gateway.- 8.6 Activating an InterSLIP connection.- 8.7 Using PPP instead of SLIP.- 8.8 Insisting on software, support, and access.- 8.9 Creating an InterSLIP gateway script.- 9 Windows Bootstrap (Commercial).- 9.1 Internet in a Box, aka the Air Series.- 9.2 Chameleon.- 9.3 TCP/Connect II.- 9.4 Buckle down WinSocky.- 9.5 The future of Windows networking.- 10 Windows Bootstrap (Shareware).- 10.2 Installing Trumpet WinSock.- 10.3 Adding a new Windows workgroup.- 10.4 Sample Trumpet WinSock connection script.- 10.5 Configuring TCP-Man.- 10.6 Configuring Netscape.- 10.7 32-bit computing with Windows.- 10.8 Can you see through Windoze.- 3 Beginning UNIX.- 11 UNIX Basics.- 11.1 What is UNIX.- 11.2 Advantages of UNIX.- 11.3 Disadvantages of UNIX.- 11.4 Logging in.- 11.5 Documentation conventions.- 11.6 Simple commands.- 11.7 The UNIX tool box.- 11.8 The online manual.- 12 Files and Directories.- 12.1 The UNIX file system.- 12.2 The file hierarchy.- 12.3 Filenaming conventions.- 12.4 Copy and move commands.- 12.5 Permissions.- 12.6 The chmod command.- 13 E-Mail.- 13.1 The UNIX mail program.- 13.2 Introduction to e-mail addresses.- 13.3 Receiving e-mail.- 13.4 The biff program.- 13.5 Sending e-mail.- 13.6 World-wide computer networks.- 13.7 E-mail replies to messages.- 14 Shared Data: Internetworking.- 14.1 Transferring files between machines.- 14.2 Multi-file transfers using UNIX.- 14.3 ftp, file transfer program.- 14.4 Anonymous ftp.- 14.5 File archiving.- 15 The UNIX Shell.- 15.1 Introduction to the C-Shell.- 15.2 Filename expansion.- 15.3 Aliases.- 16 Conclusion.- Appendices.- 1 WWW Glossary.- 2 Webography.- 3 Bibliography.

Product Description

Book by Abraham Ralph Jas Frank Russell Willard

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387944311
• ISBN 13: 9780387944319
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile