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Fascinating reading... kind of puts a perspective on things. Not many Web addresses... Lots of Gopher, Listserv, Usenet, and Anonymous FTP addresses, and lots of academic addresses in these.
Here are several excerpts from the book...
Excerpt...
(from "Political Implications of the Internet")
I have called the Net the last (accidentally) uncensored mass medium. It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that they decide what appears in newspapers, magazines, books, and on radio and TV, whereas we decide what will appear on the Net...
Search Engines
The Internet is huge, and it's growing by leaps and bounds. This access point makes the task of finding the resource you want less daunting.... A useful collection of invaluable Internet searching tools, including veronica, CUI World Wide Web catalog, Nomad Search Engine, JumpStation, Global Network Academy Meta-Library, the Whole Internet Catalog, Archieplex, the Language list, Netfind, RFC index search, and many more.
Searching the Internet
...includes a FAQ about searches and archives, and describes all the important searching tools, including archie, Hytelnet, veronica, wais, and the Web.
Excerpt...
(from "An Article on the Internet" by Bruce Sterling)
...It wasn't long before the invention of the mailing-list, an ARPANET broadcasting technique in which an identical message could be sent automatically to large numbers of network subscribers.......ARPA's network, designed to assure control of a ravaged society after a nuclear holocaust, has been superceded by its mutant child the Internet, which is thoroughly out of control, and spreading exponentially through the post-Cold War electronic global village....
My first exposure to the Internet was academic papers in 1993 - I worked for a professor who had me looking for copied papers- much more difficult at that time than it is now. I made good use of the Yellow Pages. We spent one entire afternoon on a medical site looking at x-rays of odd bodily insertions.
...ARPA's network [...] has been superceded by its mutant child the Internet, which is thoroughly out of control...
And bless those out-of-control mutant children, every one. LOL...
