8/29; Introduction to networking

A good internet glossary

Start by looking up internet, tcp/ip, HTTP and FTP

Networking introduction from Zen and the Art of the Internet

Online example of the UNIX command "traceroute"

darkwing.la.asu.edu
alai.la.asu.edu
pangea.stanford.edu
kyanite.geo.uni-potsdam.de

Now let's see whare they are physically:

Convert Host name to Latitude/Longitude

ASU Networking

Introduction to email (Joan Bahamonde)

What is email?

What is your email address?

What imap server are you assigned to?

Pine introduction (Link to PINE user's manual: http://www.snre.umich.edu/pinedocs/pine.internet.intro.html)

Pine vs Eudora, netscape mail, simeon, Microsoft exchange

Using The ASU Electronic Post Office http://epo.asu.edu/pohelp/whatsapostoffice.html

The World Wide Web: using Netscape and Internet Explorer to browse the Web

Basics of surfing:

Opening URLS.

Backwards and forwards

GO

Bookmarks

Set the homepage to http://www.public.asu.edu/~arrows/CompGeo.html


Other Cool Stuff

What else is interesting on the Compu Geo web page?

Searching for things on the web.

Search.com 
Hotbot (Joan's Favorite)
YAHOO 
Netscape Search
Starting Point 
McKinley's Internet Directory 
Infoseek 
Point Communications Best of the Internet 

Assignment 1


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