Teacher Education Workshop
Learning to search the Internet

Session One: Introduction to the Internet

Video Introduction to the Internet

The visualization of NSFNet

This takes quite a while to download, even on a T1 connection!

You might want to download ahead of time if you are making a presentation.

What is the Internet

Technical Definition (from ISOC)

Working Definition

RFC 1462 (Request for Comment) by Krol and Hoffman

Internet History

Hobbes' Internet Timeline

Chart of Internet Evolution (from ISOC)

Some Network Basics

Excerpt from Zen and the Art of the Internet

Chart of Country Codes (from ISOC)

Host Growth from the Internet Society (ISOC)

Network Growth | Host_Count_-_Linear Scale | Host_Count_-_Log_Scale | Host_Count_vs_GNP

Domain Growth

From the Internet Society (ISOC)

3_Letter_Domain | Global_Top_16 | Global_17-31 | Global_32-47 | Global_48-64

From Internet Business Center

Global Representation

Who Uses the Internet

Finally, 20 to 30 Million Users on the Internet - MIDS Press Release

Graphics and Visualization Laboratory's 3rd Annual WWW Demographic Survey

Survey.Net Internet Survey #1 - Current Results

The American Internet User Survey - New Survey Highlights

Types of Services

My Brief Definitions

Services: Global Information Space - Chart from ISOC

Emerging: Mercantilism, Multimedia & Ubiquity - Chart from ISOC

NSFNet Backbone Traffic by Service Type from MIDS

WWW versus Gopher Traffic - from Internet Business Center

WWW Host and WWW Sites - from Internet Business Center

Netiquette

Nettiquette Guide from Florida Atlantic University

Deciphering the "Alphabet Soup"

Glossary of Internet Terms

On-line Dictionary of Computing

Internet Guides (Seminal Works)

A guide to Cyberspace by Kevin Hughs

This guide covers only the World Wide Web.

Zen and the Art of the Internet (volume 1)- Brandon Kehoe (1992)

The history is accurate and descriptions of the older services are very detailed.
This is the only volume available online, volume 4 was published in the fall of 1995.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet - Ed Krol (1989)

Very dated, but the guide that started it all!

Ed's current work in this area is The Whole Internet Users Guide.

Available from ~~~~~~~~~~~.

Reference list for session one: Introduction to the Internet

The Mother of all Internet Reference Lists

The Internet section of Computer Mediated Communication, by John December