The Web after Work for Dummies Book

Introduction

What We Assume about You

The Web After Work For Dummies: The Blueprint

Part I: I Want My Web and I Want It Now!

Part II: Places to Go, Things to See

Part III: Power Surfing

Part IV: The Part of Tens

Part V: Appendixes

Icons Used in This Book

Part I: I Want My Web and I Want It Now!

Chapter 1: Going Online Right Now

So What Is the Internet?

Okay, Then What's the Web?

Getting Connected to the Internet and Web: The Big Picture

Software requirements

Hardware requirements

AOL 3.0 for Windows 95

AOL 3.0 for Windows 3.1

AOL 3.0 for Macs

Modem

ISPs: On-ramps to the information superhighway

Installing Internet Software and Registering with an ISP

Preparing for installation

Select a screen name

Select a password

Find a credit card

Installing the software

AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 installation

AOL 3.0 for Windows 3.1 installation

Windows sign-up steps

AOL 3.0 for Macintosh installation

Your First Web Session

Getting connected

Exploring the Web with AOL's browser

Disconnecting

Chapter 2: Touring the Internet with Microsoft Internet Explorer

Starting Microsoft Internet Explorer

Using MSIE Icons

Back

Forward

Stop

Refresh

Home

Search

Favorites

Print

Font

Mail

Other Useful Features

Find

Jump to previously visited sites

New Window

Part II: Places to Go, Things to See

Chapter 3: Hot Hobbies on the Web

Automobiles

Car shows and events

Carnet: Museums, clubs, and online pix

The checkered flag

RaceZine

ALSPORTS Racing Links

Car supplies

Buying a car

Car dealers online

Motorcycles

rec.motorcycles.* page

Harley-Davidson of Stamford

The Swapmeet

Genealogy

Genealogy Toolbox

K­12 genealogy resources

Religious group genealogical resources

Outdoor Participation Sports

Outdoor Resources Online

Get Lost Adventure Sports

Adventure Sports Online

Parks: Hiking, Camping, and Getting Away from It All

L.L. Bean

The Backcountry Home Page

National Park Service

Appalachian Trail

Going to the dogs

Astronomy and Space

RASC Winnipeg Centre

Professor Dan Reed's Astronomy Hobby Page

JPL New Products Development Group

Guides to Hobbies off the Beaten Track

Yahoo! -- Recreation: Hobbies and Crafts

Chuck's Hobby home page

Chapter 4: A Little Song, a Little Dance . . . a Little Entertainment Online

That's Funny (That's Not Funny)

Brad Templeton's rec.humor.funny newsgroup

LaughWEB!

Monty Python and The Quest for an Official Homepage

The Capitol Steps

Games, Games, Games

id Software's Doom

Zarf's List of Interactive Games on the Web

Adventure OnLine Gaming Web site

Goin' to the Movies

Hollywood Online

The Internet movie database

MovieWEB

The Oscars are online

Finding all the studios

Watchin' Television and Listenin' to the Radio

Television on the Net

Radio waves

Reading Talk

Project Gutenberg -- books for all

BookWire

Bookstores on the Web

Magazines and newspapers

Late Nite Snacking?

Chapter 5: Shop 'til You Drop

The Branch Mall -- the Main Street of Online Shopping

The Internet Shopping Network

The Malls of Canada

The Access Market Square Internet Shopping Mall

iMall

Specialty Shops along the Cyberboulevard

1-800-FLOWERS

Lands' End -- the place for clothing

Fruit, fruit, and fruit from the Indian River Gift Fruit Company

The WWWeb Shopping Directory

Finding Pre-Owned Deals -- the Classifieds

Nerd World Media classified ads

Virtual Classifieds

A Note from Your Personal Shopper

Chapter 6: News, Weather, and Sports

News

CNN Newsroom

Associated Press recent wire stories

Mercury Center

Wall Street Journal Interactive

StockMaster

Okay -- a few others!

Weather

Weather Underground

MIT weather page

The Old Farmer's Almanac

Sports

Xplore Sports

The Nerd World Sports Page

ESPNET SportsZone

Instant Baseball

Football Server

Olympics sites

Chapter 7: The Web around the House

Comestibles: Cooking, Kitchens, Food, and Eating Out

Electronic Gourmet Guide

The Recipes Folder

Creole and Cajun recipes

Hot Hot Hot

Ragu -- Mama's Cucina

Midland Harvest Vegetable Burgers

Vegetarian Resources

Dining Out on the Web

A la carte guide to restaurants, bed 'n' breakfasts, inns, lodges, and resorts

Virtual Vineyards

Whole Foods Market

UK Chef on Line

The Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches page

Gardens, Seeds, and Plants

Gardening by Nerd World Media

Come Into My Garden: The Toolshed

Master Gardener Information

It is Raining Dogs and Cats . . .

On the Net, they don't know if you're a dog

Virtual dog biscuits: rec.pets.dogs FAQ

The Cornell Canine Page

Wishbone

Here, kitty kitty . . .

Feline information

Talk to the cat (nice kitty, down kitty)

HorseWorld

Around the House with Kids

Off We Go

Chapter 8: Art and Crafts

Art

WebMuseum, Paris

Musée du Louvre/Web Louvre

the place

Kaleidospace

Music

MTV comes to the Web

Internet Underground Music Archive

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Dance

Vintage Dancing

Dances with Yahoo!

Dancescape

Chapter 9: Better Living through Fitness, Medicine, and Friendship

Feeling Good: Fitness, Health, and Medicine

Visiting a health-related meta-site

The Good Health Web

Lifelines Health Page

Looking in an online catalog

Searching high and low

Going retro -- read some books

Checking the health news every day

Shopping online for fitness products

A couple more sites

Personal Networking on the Net

Keyboard chats: Typing your way around the Net

Internet Relay Chat

WebChat

Voice chats -- talkin on the phone (sort of)

VocalTec's Internet Phone

TeleVox

WebPhone -- calling all spiders

Sharing Ideas, Beliefs, and Lifestyles

match.com

ReunionNet

Veterans' sites

Gulf War

Vietnam War

Korean War

World War II

WomensNet

Men's organizations, publishers, and publications

Chapter 10: Your Online Travel Kit

Travel Inspiration, Information, and Transportation

Top of the line: The Air Traveler's Handbook

Southwest Airlines Home Gate

City.Net

Wholesale Travel Centre

The GORP page -- no, really, the GORP page

All the Hotels on the Web

Bed and Breakfast Inns of North America

Automobile rentals

Armchair Traveling: Virtual Trips

Pack your long underwear: We're off to the South Pole

The Russian Chronicles: A trans-Cyberian journey

Uh oh, the Peeping Tom Homepage

The Web Travel Review

Maps: Finding Your Way

Etak

Olivetti Research Labs -- covering the world with cameras

Whoops, Some Bad News, Too

Chapter 11: Civic Duty: Taking Your Community onto the Web

Strengthening and Promoting Your Community Using the Web

Bringing More of Your Community Together Online

Putting Existing Organizations Online

Chapter 12: Computing: Gigabytes of Software

Compressed Files

Shareware and Freeware

Jumbo

Shareware Distributors

TUCOWS: The ultimate collection of Winsock software

OAK Software Repository

Walnut Creek CDROM

Commercial/Shareware/Freeware One-Stop Shopping

Yahoo! -- Computers and Internet Software

Shareware.com

Apple-related Internet sites

A last word

Part III: Power Surfing

Chapter 13: The Virtual Chapter

Chapter 14: Some Really Good Places to Start

Yahoo!

Nova University Inter-Links

The Family Surfboard

The WWW Virtual Library

Tradewave Galaxy

Washington & Lee University Netlink

John December's Guides

c|net: The Computer Network

Okay, Okay -- Just a Few Others

Chapter 15: Your Internet Decoder Ring: Using the Other Internet Food Groups

Uniform Resource Locators: They're Not Gobbledegook

Gopher

Searching Gopher with Veronica

FTP -- File Transfer Protocol

Archie

Chapter 16: How the Heck Can I Find Stuff on the Web?

So What Is the Trick to Searching?

AltaVista -- The Best and Brightest

Lycos -- The Webspinner

WebCrawler -- Quick and Easy

Infoseek Guide -- More Than the Web

Excite's Netsearch -- Fuzzy and Concept Searching

McKinley's Magellan

Searching by the Bushel

Search.Com

The All-in-One search page

SavvySearch

Deja News -- Searching Usenetspace

Newsgroups and Discussion Lists: Finding Them at Inter-Links

Kids Stuff: Yahooligans

Chapter 17: Hey! I Want My Own Home Page

Web Pages -- Take a Look under the Hood

Writing Web Pages

HTML Learning Resources

Graphics and Pictures for Web Pages

The AOL Solution

Chapter 18: E-Mail: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet

Yes, But What Does @ Mean?

So how do I find someone's e-mail address?

Getting down to the brass tacks of sending e-mail

More e-mail bells and whistles

Discussion Lists: Group Gabbing

So, how do I join?

How can I find some really interesting lists?

Well, What Other Stuff Can I Do with the Mail Menu?

But first, just what is Usenet?

Posting and reading Usenet news

What Now?

Part IV: The Part of Tens

Chapter 19: Weird Wide Web: Ten of the Strangest Sites on the World Wide Web

Steve's Ant Farm

Floater's PiranhaCam

Talk to My Cat

bsy's List of Internet Accessible Coke Machines

Internet Speed Dialing

The Crankiest Site on the Net

Useless Pages

Ken White's Coin Flipping Page

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Lyrics to All 99 Verses of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"

The Sea Monkey Worship Page

Chapter 20: Ten of the Most Useful Internet Sites

Internet Catalogs: The Good Stuff by Category

Yahoo!

McKinley's Magellan

Finding More Good Stuff: Internet Search Engines

Lycos

WebCrawler

A Trip to the Mall and Library

ComFind Business Search

My Virtual Reference Desk

Searching in Usenet Space

Nova University Inter-Links

Deja News

Keeping Up: News, Weather, and Sports

Nando Times

WeatherNet

ESPNET SportsZone

LaughWEB

Pack Your Internet Exploration Kit

Chapter 21: Ten Great Shop-'til-Ya-Drop Sites

The All-Internet Shopping Directory

Virtual Reality Mall

The 60s Trading Post

Best of the Wild West Cybermall

Design Studio Internet Catalog

Gui 'N Da Hood

ParentsPlace.Com Mall

Museum Shops

Smithsonian Shopping Mall

The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Store

Zia's Free-Stuff

Crossovers from TV Land

As Seen On TV

As Seen On TV

Chapter 22: Ten Stupid Ways to Self-Destruct on the Internet (And How to Avoid Them)

Don't assume that your e-mail is totally private

Don't assume that laws don't apply to what you do on the Net

Don't post hostile, angry, or insulting messages on public discussion groups

Don't assume that everyone on the Internet wants to read your postings

Don't post personal identification information on your Web pages

Don't abandon normal caution

Don't post material that would be illegal in print

Don't figure that passwords are for the paranoid

Don't be an online vandal or general nuisance

Don't lose perspective

Chapter 23: The Ten Most Common Questions Concerning the Internet and the Web

What Is the Internet?

What Is the Web?

Who Owns the Internet? Who Is in Charge Here?

What Is Surfing, Aside from Kids on the Beach at Malibu?

What Is All That http:// Thingy Stuff?

How Do I Get on the Net?

Okay, When I Get to the Internet, What Can I Do There?

How Can I Send E-Mail to Foreign Countries?

What Is Internet Culture -- Virtual Opera?

What Is Usenet?

Part V: Appendixes

Appendix A: Access Options

First Steps for Getting on the Superhighway

What Is All the Stuff about SLIP/PPP?

Finding One of Those ISP Things

Appendix B: Some Browser Options

Netscape

NCSA Mosaic

Quarterdeck Mosaic

Cello

Hot Java

Index

End-User Licence Agreement

CD-ROM Installation Information

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