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- The Online World resources handbook Revision history
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- The following major changes have been done to The Online World resources
- handbook since its original release:
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- Version 1.9 January 30, 1995 - ISBN 82-7820-000-9
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- Highlights:
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- - Many new African sources.
- - Travel and News by continent. Interesting GO-pages. New free Internet
- news source covering CIS countries.
- - Many new and updated pointers for European Community information.
- - Foreign language tutorials.
- - Patent information on the Internet.
- - Sources of information on politics.
- - Sources for alcoholics. More on cancer. Women's health issues.
- - Many revised http and ftp pointers across the board. New tools
- gives different (and easier) ways of retrieving information.
- - Several commercial services have changed names/addresses, and are
- getting a presence on the Internet.
- - Easier access to Frequently Asked Question files.
- - Usenet/Netnews by email.
- - New address for WWW by email.
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- Version 1.8 November 30, 1994
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- Highlights:
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- - The IBM Global Network
- - The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
- - The NewsHound news filtering service
- - The DowVision news filtering service
- - The "In, Around and Online" newsletter
- - CompuServe's multilingual machine translation service
- - Pointer to resources on India
- - Brazilian patents data
- - Internet Global Phone
- - The Microsoft Network
- - AutoPages of Internet on the Web
- - Frank Sinatra discussed and praised.
- - On the Web: Dialog, Data-Star, ClariNet, Dun & Bradstreet, IBM
- Global Network, Sprint, Boardwatch Magazine, Der Spiegel.
- - Full text articles from Time, Vibe, and Entertainment Weekly
- - FAQ files: The How to get access to Netnews. Finger. Winsock Application.
- - Defined: JPEG, pseudo-SLIP (replaces dialup SLIP connection), NNTP server.
- - The Network Service Providers Around the World file, and other offerings.
-
- Version 1.7 September 19, 1994
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- This update further strengthens the focus on Europe, Latin America, Africa,
- and Asia in the business application sections.
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- * The World Wide Web by email, including hints on searching data bases
- on the Web by email.
- * Find information in WWW, Gopher, and ftp files through Lycos.
- * Offerings to help locate information sources on the WWW.
- * WAIS searches by email.
- * Searching Usenet's Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) texts.
- * More on Usenet by email.
- * The gophers and WWW pages of the world, sorted by country.
- * CompuServe, Dialog, Data-Star and ECHO on the WWW.
- * Read news from all countries of the world through Clarinet.
- * Data-Star is strong on European business information.
- * Microsoft on the Internet.
- * Global demography and population information.
- * Discussing Australian and New Zealand wines.
- * Images from the Vatican Library's collection of books and manuscripts.
- * Added: sources on genealogy, art from Louvre in France, The British
- Library, the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the
- Council of Security and Cooperation in Europe, French news summaries,
- the latest UK news.
- * Hint: How to handle mail returned due to error in contents.
- * Hint: Receive confirmation when your Internet mail has been received.
- * Hint: Getting off that mailing list.
- * Various: relevance ranking, IBM Global Network, CD Plus, firewalls, HTML,
- Unicode, the Internet Talk Radio, Veronica by email, and more.
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- A Canadian version of the handbook is available in print. Print versions
- focusing on Australia, Spain, Iceland, and Denmark are being prepared.
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- Version 1.6 July 5, 1994
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- This update further strengthens the focus on Latin America, Africa, and
- Asia.
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- * Foreign language assistance
- * Learning foreign languages
- * Books in "other" languages
- * Six different news digests on Africa
- * New sources on China
- * Interactive Chinese Chess
- * International political and economic news from British Broadcasting
- Corporation (BBS).
- * This week's currency exchange rates
- * The Information Bank on African Development Studies (a World Bank
- project)
- * Net-happenings has "moved," and can now be searched through gopher and WWW
- * The Encyclopaedia Britannica
- * Access MCI Mail from the Internet
- * More pointers on satellites, amateur and packet radio
- * Full-motion movie trailers from Warner Bros, MCA/Universal, and
- Walt Disney Pictures.
- * Heart, lung, and blood diseases resource
- * The Internet Poet Archive
- * An Internet clipping service
- * Parenthood
- * Finding lists of periodic postings (FAQs) to Usenet
- * QWK, .tar-files, more on compression, ftp via Gopher, finding the best
- gophers in the world, more on GopherMail, IRC, Linux, Lynx, WAIS FAQ,
- the WebCrawler database of WWW information pages, Internet tools. . .
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- Version 1.5 May 11, 1994
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- This update further strengthens the focus on Latin America, Africa, and Asia
- for business applications and holiday travelling in particular, and has new
- European pointers.
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- * New section on "Using email gateways to Internet resources."
- * The Stanford Netnews Filtering Service.
- * Resources on Sudan, Czech economy, NAFTA, The Maastricht Treaty, UNICEF,
- Africa,
- * English language database on Japanese technology.
- * More on Japan: Yomiuri Shimbun, Tradstat, Dow Jones News/Retrieval's
- offerings, Teikou's company profiles.
- * La Vie Francaice, La Stampa, Wall Street Journal Europe, Nouvel
- Economiste.
- * The Islamic Computer Resource Guide, and information on Qualam.
- * Telnet to CompuServe.
- * EUnet Traveller - for easy access to the Internet while in Europe.
- * Reading encyclopedias online.
- * The RSI (Repetitive Stress Injury) Network Newsletter.
- * Sending faxes through the Internet.
- * More on MIME and BASE64.
- * More on cryptography.
- * Law-related resources on the Internet.
- * Internet VoiceChat.
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- Version 1.4 March 10, 1994
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- This update focuses on Latin America, Africa, and Asia for business
- applications in particular, while strengthening the European pointers.
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- * New sources for news, conferences, gophers, and more for China, Japan, the
- Middle East, Israel, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Australia/New Zealand,
- Brazil, Mexico, xUSSR countries, Sub-Saharan and North Africa, and other
- countries. Includes some Spanish language services.
- * Network Service Providers Around the World
- * The Directory of Information Services in China
- * The KOI-8 (Russian/Cyrillic character) coding scheme.
- * The No>m standard code (Vietnam)
- * Some official information sources for the United States and Canada.
- * Pointers for Cello, Lynx, Mosaic, PPP, SLIP, FreeWAIS, Winsock, Binhex
- * Special Internet Connections
- * Updated pointers to the WHOIS service, the Interest Groups List of Lists,
- NET-RESOURCES, and RFCs.
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- Version 1.3 January 8, 1994
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- * Using gopher services by email (Gophermail)
- * Using Internet's finger by email
- * Using Internet's ping by email
- * Online store with over 260,000 book titles,
- * Online store offering over 80,000 CD records
- * References to CCITT replaced by ITU-TSS. Revised ITU information.
- * The Gale Directory of Databases
- * China Import/Export news
- * CitiBank Global Report
- * Many new sources for music lovers
- * The NewNIR-L mailing list.
- * Majordomo
- * MIME
- * Added references to several Frequently Asked Questions files
- * More on Internet "demos",
- * More on RFCs
- * More books.
- * The Sierra Network is now The ImagiNation Network.
- * URL (Universal Resource Locater), and HTTP.
- * Irving Kind's Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms
- * The text has been reformatted. Margins are now 1-76. Single-spaced
- text with double-spacing between paragraphs, and with full-block
- text rather than indentations at the beginning of paragraphs.
- * Readers can now send their credit card number by PGP encrypted
- email when registering.
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- Version 1.2 November 1, 1993
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- * Added the home-ed mailing list, and The University of Phoenix's
- accredited degrees through courses conducted online
- * Corrected addresses for lists previously at RPIECS
- * The SIMTEL20 software library was closed. The software
- is now available through the SimTel Software Repository.
- * The Maastricht Treaty on European Union
- * Directory of scholarly electronic conferences
- * More science fiction, music, and The CIA World Factbook.
- * Forums for Mark Twain, Tolkien, - and the bizarre
- * Tarzan and Frankenstein (books)
- * Searching Webster's dictionary
- * Eunet Deutschland GmbH
- * Travel Britain Online
- * The World Health Organization
- * Advantis (IBM)
- * "The Totally Unofficial List of Internet Muds"
- * More WordPerfect support
- * Financial Times' thirty international business reports.
- * Sources on business in Mexico from Dow Jones.
- * Forums for international trade and management.
- * Trends: Interactive newspapers. Global telephone. Email by voice phone.
- CD-ROM supported communications.
- * New books and magazines.
- * Information about Compress, Demos, Jughead, RIP, SNA, .TAR, and .Z
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- Version 1.1. September 1, 1993
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- * Added The Internet Resource Directory for Educators
- * Chinese character codes (Big5/GuoBiao)
- * Hytelnet
- * Netfind
- * TRICKLE
- * Access to WHOIS
- * InterNIC's automated mail service
- * South African Bibliographic and Information Network
- * Added CHPOEM-L, and some other conferences/forums
- * Continental Cablevision's Internet connection
- * Updated addresses to all APC host computers
- * Updated text about CIX (England)
- * Email to Advantis IBMmail
- * New address to SuperNet/SuperBBS
- * New phone numbers/NUA numbers to TWICS (Japan)
- * Expanded on computer viruses
- * (Most) registration rates are now in US$.
- * The TOW support forum
- * Addresses to the book's Danish and German publishers
- * Added books/magazines to appendix 5
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- Version 1.0. August 5, 1993
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- Initial release as shareware.
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- For information, contact Odd de Presno at opresno@extern.uio.no .
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