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EDITORIAL rs big. it's clever, but what the hell is it? And what exactly will I actually get Out of it - apart from the kudos of quoting an e-mail address once in a while. If you listen to pretentious ramblings of media, you'd be quite right to envisage the Internet as a pseudo intellectual utopia, where access guarantees a near psychedelic experience - what a load of old cobblers! What it does provide is a means for mere mortals to get the one thing which increasingly makes the difference between the haves and the have cots in the modern world, In short, access to information. It's obvious from the Amiga Computing mail that the average reader is getting just a little cheesed off with the seemingdy endless supply of mind-boggling acronyms and buzzwords that make up this ethereal electronic soup. Basically, if you strip away the hype you're left with five key areas, each of which boasts its own collection of utilities and applications to help control and access the information you send and receive. E-mail E-mail and your individual address is the beak element in the equation. For example_ ezra suds address is ezralitacomp.oremon.cauk. and in affect this works just like a virtual PO box number. Literally everything ezra sends and receives has to quote this unique address, and if you've got intemet access, a modem, and a phone line, you can send him e-mail from anywhere on the planet - but please don't. Better still, he can dial-in from anywhere, quote his password and account details and download all the mail sent to him. The actual information is constantly maintained and Web browsing A web browser such as AMosaic offers a similar means of filtering and navigating the net, however Web browsers filter information rather than files. When you read an Internet article you'll invariably come across a screen shot of a Web browser. In short, browsers are the pretty face of the intemet Like users. Web pages have their The 11( team What dop5 it all mean? Paul fiustin outs the Internet into oerspertio, with a rough guide to Piet fig what all the 11155 k about own addresses and all you need to do is enter an address into your browser and you'll go directly - or at least indirectly - to information you need. For example, if you're interested in a new sports car the motor sports homepage would seem a logical place to start, From there you might click on a hypertext button for new models, which in turn might have a EDITORPaul Austin CIRCULATION DIRECTOR D a vid Wren CHAIRMAN Richa rd Muse DEPuTT EDITOR Darren Evam ART EDITORS Tym Lecity Terry Thiele COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR ()a nise Wright DISTRIBUTION C ON AG (0195) 444055 MANAGING DIRECTOR La n Bloomfield NEWS EDITOR Ada m Phillips SUBSCRIPTION 0S1-3571961 We regret Arno Combistmg cannot offer technical help PRODUCTION EDITOR Judith Chapman STAFF WRITERS jomcha n Maddods Member the AWIE Bureau of Craihoorn on a persora basis either by telessnone or in writing. All reader eneones should be subrretted to the address in Tma Hackett Gareth Lofthouse this panel for possible publicroon. Dave Cauca [ ABC 54,305 Amiga Comiputaig is an ndependent Duritotron cod VERTISING MANAGER Simon Lets AD SALES Ja ne Normengtoia • A D SALES Sue Honafield AD PRODUCTION Ba rba ra Newall MARKETING MANAGER C la ire Maudsler PRODUCTION MANAGER Sandra Childs JuIrDec 1993 Publuted by IDG Me& Meth% House, Arlington Park, Micriesfels1 SRO 4NP Tel Dan Bane Fa 0615 150651 Commodore 8auless Mochines lid are nor resporsitiee fog ael of the c6the n tre issue of for cry of the °mons expressed 01995 IDG Media material may be reproduced m whole or in part without written permission. While eyery care is takes, the publishers cannot be held legally reponsible for any errors in articles SYSTEMS MANAGER Da vid Stewart listings or advenisemene Amiga Computing MAY 1995 updated for you by your intemet provider - in this case Demon Internet, When ezra next logs-on, Demon knows when he last downloaded mail and will check the in-basket and send anything still pending. FTP sites In short, an PIP site Is the Internet's name for a freely accessible software archive. When you log-on to an FTP site you're actually directly accessing someone else's hard drive. This becomes obvious when you run utils such as Guip -you'll see your directories, and on the other rP. will be the O n list of directories and files at that oparticular n e site. If you see something you like, sselect i it dand copy it across - it's that simple. e There are literally thousands of FTP sites all oover the f world, some of which have dedicated tAmiga hsections known as the Aminet. e Gophering s c r e Actually visiting all the FTP sites individually e would n be impossible, and that's where utilities like Archie arid Gopher come into their own. Both offer an automated search facility. Archie Pink to a review of the latest Porche, and so on... That's how the majority of Web pages operate - you simply browse around for related links until you reach the precise information you need. And of course, if you find a page you'll want to visit regularly, it can be added to your hotlist and then visited directly whenever you feel like it, will search for keywords within a list of FTP sites and files maintained by your provider, whereas Gopher provides a point-and-click search facility of Gopher-specific FTP sites via an Amiga Guide front-end Basically, both provide an invaluable means of filtering file information, allowing you to find and get what you as quickly as possible. Newsgroups This is where the truly weird and wonderful matte their mark. Strange, surreal, interesting and in some cases outrageous is definitely the order of the day. If you're interested in a particular subject, no matter how obscure, I guarantee there'll be a newsgroup dedicated to it - and even if by some bizarre quirk of fate there isn't, you can always start one... Newsgroups are probably best described as off-line, topic-specific, citizens band e-mail, Confused? So you should be. Basically, when you subscribe to a newsgroup you become a member of a band of like-minded individuals, each of whom automatically receive all the new news posted in that particular group every time they elect to get their news. When you actually get news via nreptranster, the software checks which groups you're a member of then grabs all the new postings since your last visit, You can then reply directly to another member, comment on a message, or post your own messages of files. Well, that's the basics. There are many more involved but the point is, don't be put off, get involved, and most important of all have fun, ' I O P D G • ' I A -- For six years Amigo Comoubng Ism been the leading magazine for Arnip enthusiasts, As a key member of the IDG commiirsicatiom group, Allege Computing promism to inform educate and entertain its readers each month with the most declicated coverage of the Amiga available_ 1 2 nave tabulation 144.99 (LIOQ, (0.99 (EEC) LII4.91 (Weld) 0101111f lamely direct debit Li I N iffig enfy) Pinned arsd tourid by Duncan Webb Onset imaidolone) Lad
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