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How Search Engines Work...
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For "Newbies"
"What Does THAT Mean?!?!?"

Internet History -- This Yahoo directory has more listings than we could ever mention here...
Beginner's Guides -- Again, this Yahoo directory has more listings than we could ever mention here...
Exploring the Internet!
The Internet Help Desk
Learn the Net: An Internet Guide & Tutorial
Internet: "The Big Picture"
-- "What are the major pieces of the Internet, &
-- who are the major players in each segment?"
Odd DePresno's Internet Resources Handbook - CONTINUALLY (and constantly, it seems) updated. One of the best I've read!
Interactive Guide to the Internet Desktop Presentation - Download this application (927K) to your Windows desktop and learn the in's and out's of the Web at your own pace.
Terms and Definitions
ILC Glossary of Internet Terms
Connected:
An Internet Encyclopaedia (3rd ed)

Marketing Manager's Plain English Internet Glossary - Web and Web design terms from the marketing manager's point of view. A useful business reference for everything from 'hit' to 'browser wars.'
Common Internet File Formats & How to Deal with Them
-- a bit dated [1995] - but what it DOES contain represents about 80% of what you'll see out there. We'll replace this when a better one appears.
What DOES the "Net" Look Like?

Simpler Info
Where IS everybody? Finding out this answer through a (continually updated?) map of the distribution of "domain names" (names like "kconline.com".)
Atlas for the Information Superhighway
Gordon Bell (an internet pioneer) gives a lot of simple, but staggering, statistics on internet growth. The larger presentation, of which this is a part, is located in the right-hand column.
ADVANCED
An Atlas of CyberSpaces - about as much information, on all topics of Web infrastructure - as you could want. A bit more advanced.
CyberGeography Research -includes conceptual, geographic, topological, census, traceroutes, and other maps and atlases of cyberspaces.
Experiments with Search Engine Structure Maps
The larger Gordon Bell presentation: "Mapping the Internet" - a discussion of his desires for cheap and fast access for everyone.
eMail and "Netiquette"

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
E-mail IQ -- a collection of email resources: emoticons, e-mail programs, signatures, & more!
E-mail Ettiqutte
Newsgroup Netiquette
Netiquette Home Page
Dear Emily Postnews
Netiquette Primer
Chatter's Jargon Dictionary

SEARCHING THE NET !
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Fondren Library: Internet Searching Strategies -- Excellent and concise!
Hints & Tips for Searching the Internet
Internet Research FAQ
The Search Is Over
NetStrider - Search Engines, Indexes, Directories and Libraries
How to Search for Medical Information

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