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Now you thought that the Internet is here to enhance your productivity at work. This is a serious misconception. Sadly, productive work has to be done so the Internet gets paid for. But the real reason people use the Internet is that it is just plain fun (and addictive), and they do use it.
To give you an idea of what is out there waiting for you, here are a few interesting points on the Internet. You can also search for yourself . Of course, you can search this page itself by keywords using the "find" function in your browsers' "Edit" menu ( shortcut key may be "Ctrl-F" )

Did you know that in the USA ,there is a law in the making that would restrict (and police) Internet traffic in an attempt to stop "indecent" material from spreading?

Even if you would agree to such a law, it is worthwhile to look at the Petition To Help Senator Leahy Fight The Communications Decency Act. Of course, if you're there, you could sign this petition right away, or look for addresses where you can send your support for the act.

Random points on the Internet

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How to start on the World Wide Web

If you are new to the Internet or the World Wide Web, here is where you can find some guidance for your first steps.
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Gateways

The netports where you can fly or s(n)ail away on the wide, wide Internet.

Note that you can often save these pages for local use.
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Sensitive Maps

A geographic list of WWW-Servers
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Pictures

The Internet is loaded with pictures. Generally these are encoded and large (i.e.,.GIF), or compressed and small (i.e., .JPEG). You need special software to view them, software that can be downloaded from the net. Some image sources are (see also Virtual Tourism): Back to Contents list We also store some pictures culled from the net.

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Movies

Digital movies on the Internet are generally encoded in MPEG format. The software necessary to run these movies can be downloaded from the net. There are a lot of sources of MPEG movies. Here are a few of them (see also Virtual Tourism):

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We also store some movies culled from the net.

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Sounds and Music

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Games

Games are the raison d'etre of the Internet, it's nothing but a giant playground. Who would use the Internet (or a computer, for that matter) if it wasn't for playing games?
Now, we cannot give you a comprehensive list of all available game-sites, so we just give you an impression where you can find the information you need.

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Virtual Tourism

In the days of old, as lore will have it, people would actually transport themselves to far away places. To do so they used to sit for days inside cramped cars, busses, trains, and planes.
It might be difficult to believe for the hardened web-surfer but a car- or plane-crash can actually be more of a nuissance than a hard-disk crash. Over the years people learned that romance and adventure are all in the mind, so they finally understood that there is no point in risking your patience and health in long trips and they stayed tuned to where the the real action is: The Internet.

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Space

That other Frontier.

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Human Interest

Humans are very interesting, as are their interests themselves.

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Religion

If you think religion would not qualify for this page, you should read the book.
For every (western) persuasion there is information available. The Holy Scriptures are on-line, of course (see Hyperbooks). If you are interested:

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Anarchy on the Web

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Information (sec.)

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Hyperbooks

For those of you who are CRT-junks, but still want to read books (an unlikely combination) or just want to look bussy while reading at work, there are online books distributed through the Internet (with FAQ). Here is a small list of electronic-books:
Hypertext books
Books (sec.)
Holy Scriptures
Libraries and repositories
Resource Guides and Reviews
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Hypertext books

Books (ASCII, many of these will try to download the books to you)

Holy Scriptures

Libraries and repositories

Resource Guides, Reviews, and other book-related sites

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Online Magazines and Journals

As with every other conceivable subject, there are special interest Internet Magazines. But there are also Online Magazines and Journals on every conceivable subject on the Internet itself. Look for yourself.

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Newsgroups

Fight it out with words in a Newsgroup.
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Page recycling

You might have thought about how to speed up your web-surfing while you where waiting again for the n-th time to read your favorite page from the net. Chances are that the only interesting things on this page were links to other pages. Now what do you do when you finally get the page? You throw it away. So next time, you have to wait again. Moreover, others have to wait for you while you are reading it. So everyone grows old while waiting for pages to get to still other pages, in the mean time clogging the Internet.
Now wait, you say, I use my hotlist to store all my favorite pages. Then I read all ten-thousand URL's to get to my target page.
We all know that the hotlist is not realy the most convienient way to browse the net. There is a better way. Your browser can read local pages. So next time, don't throw away that nice page with all those smashing links, save it (in HTML format) and read this saved page when you need the links again. Don't forget to occasionally update your downloaded pages.

A small hint: Inline pictures are not saved, neither are links to local pages. You should preverably download pages with outward links (relative to the host server).

Here are some suggestions:

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Web Top Publishing

You thought that DTP was the end of publishing. Now publish on top of the World.

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Software

There is an awfull lot of software available to help you use the Internet. Also there are tools available for data compression, displaying images and movies, using Hypertext on the WWW. We did store some of the software we used localy. Back to Contents list

The Ultimate: Setting up your own WWW station

Remember CB-radio. Boosting the power of your set to reach people all across the street. Now compare that to a WWW server, reaching people across the Pacific with your own workstation or PC. Here are links to the places that tell you how to do that.
General information about setting up and running a server
WWW Client Software products for accessing the Web (browsers like Mosaic and Netscape)
World-Wide Web server software (HTTP servers)
Server Scripts
General programs for Servers
PERL, the Practical Extraction and Report Language
Hardware and Systems
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