Internet Resources for Speech Communication 454
Communication and Technology
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Search Tools:

  1. The Open Text Index
  2. Yahoo
  3. The Lycos Home Page: Hunting WWW Information
  4. The World Wide Web Unleashed Index
  5. MetaWebCrawler
  6. The WebCrawler Search Engine
Additional Internet References:
  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation Guide to the Internet
  2. A Beginner's Guide to URLs
  3. Unix is a Four Letter Word
  4. Big Dummy's Internet Guide
  5. Web Guide and Resources
  6. Robert's HTML/WWW Thoughts
  7. Beginner's HTML Template
  8. Composing Good HTML
  9. Download a 123K file called the Internet Companion Immediately (compressed with gzip)
  10. EFF's Extended Guide to the Internet
  11. Internet Tools Summary
  12. Download immediately a 638K Macintosh Hypercard Tour of the Internet, compressed with binhex and StuffIt.
  13. Download another giant Mac Internet Help Stack for Hypercard (130K)
Electronic Mailing Lists and Publications
  1. USENET and Listservers: Introduction
  2. Listserve Quickstart!
  3. Directory of Electronic Mailing Lists
  4. Mailing Lists for Legal Scholars
  5. Academic Mailing Lists by Topic
  6. Another List of Mailing Lists
  7. HNET: Humanities Online (Mailing Lists)
  8. NetXpress Philosophy Resources On-Line (Mailing Lists)
  9. List of Electronic Zines
HTML Reference Tools
  1. A Beginner's Guide to HTML
  2. The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
  3. The Web Developer's Virtual Library
  4. Texture Land!
  5. W3C Tech Reports
  6. WWW-Talk and WWW-HTML Mail Archives (for the hardcore HTML coder)
Additional Course Readings:
  1. Mitch Kapor, Where is the Digital Highway Really Heading?
  2. John Perry Barlow Library
  3. Ethics and the Internet
  4. Social Implications of Information Technologies
  5. Allucquere Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Mondo 2000 Interview
  6. Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
  7. Introduction to Richard Dawkins
  8. Michael Heim, The Nerd in the Noosphere
  9. Chris Chesher, Colonizing Virtual Reality
Links to Additional Reference Tools on the Internet:
  1. The Virtual Reference Desk, from the Libraries of Purdue University.
  2. Reference Sources, from The University of Chicago Library
  3. Reference, Yahoo's list of reference resources on the Internet.
  4. Cultural Studies Resources on the Net
Finding Email Addresses:
  1. Search for someone's email address
  2. Another email address searching tool
  3. How To Find Someone's Email Address: The FAQ
  4. Another FAQ on the same topic
Pick up a copy of PGP for your machine:
(All platforms are supported. It is illegal to download this software in the US without reading one of the following READMEs first, but the rest of the world's WinDoze users can download it immediately from England, Norway, Germany, or Italy. And don't keep it on your powerbook on your trip overseas because you will be considered an international arms smuggler by the US government. If you're in the US you can read one of the following files and follow the instructions to download the copy of PGP that best suits your machine. If you are overseas and you use a Mac, ask someone else how to find MacPGP.)
  1. Site #1
  2. Site #2
  3. Site #3
  4. Site #4
  5. Site #5
  6. Site #6
Don't Forget to RTFM:
  1. Non-Technical PGP Introduction
  2. Email Privacy FAQ
  3. Public PGP KeyServer
Information on Anonymous Remailers:
  1. Anonymous Remailers Introduction
  2. Anonymous Remailers FAQ
  3. Anonymitty and Privacy on the Internet
  4. Misc. Anonymity Documents on the Web.
  5. List of Anonymous Remailers
  6. Another Remailer List
  7. PGP Keys for Anonymous Remailers
  8. MixMaster Remailer FAQ
  9. Replay Remailer Help
  10. Alpha Anonymous Remailer Help Via Email
  11. Anonymous Remailers Reviewed by SAIC (Internet Domain Gatekeeper and Retirement Home for Generals and Spies)
  12. The John Doe Homepage; includes Windoze software that will make anonymous remailing a cinch.
Anonymous Remailers in the Media:
  1. Wall Street Journal editorials
  2. Avi Baumstein's rebuttal
  3. Martha Siegel in the San Francisco Chronicle
  4. Ralph Levien Responds to Siegel
  5. Peter Lewis in the New York Times
  6. Reid Kanaley in the Philadelphia Inquirer
alt.scientology.war:
  1. What happened with the Church of Scientology and anon.penet.fi?
  2. press release from Johan Helsingius on the incident
  3. Essay in Time Magazine by Joshua Quittner. of the LA Times wrote a
  4. Daniel Akst LA Timesessay
Sites for Macintosh Users:
(I've left out the usual places like www.apple.com (duh) and Infomac mirrors; if you want these look for them in one of the following sites). Oh yeah and non-Mac users should visit MicroSnot.
  1. Mac MSC Home Page
  2. A Few Mac Spots
  3. TidBITS
  4. Mac Web Programs and Utilities
  5. Everything Macintosh
  6. MacinTouch Home Page
  7. The Well Connected Mac
  8. MacNET! Table of Contents
  9. Macintosh Index
  10. The Macintosh Software Catalog
This page maintained by Ben Attias
Modified by: Ben Attias
Institution: California State University, Northridge
Last Updated: 26-Feb-96
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