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Web/Internet tools and pointers http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v6.html<br />

on anonymous ftp archive sites, other online directories and resource listings.<br />

Offers access to the "whatis" database of descriptions that include the name and a<br />

brief synopsis of the large number of public domain software, datasets and informational<br />

documents located on the Internet.<br />

You can access Archie by email to one of these addresses:<br />

archie@archie.au $XVWUDOLDQ VHUYHU<br />

archie@archie.mcgill.ca Canada<br />

archie@archie.doc.ic.ac.uk England<br />

archie@archie.funet.fi Finland<br />

archie@archie.th darmstadt.de Germany<br />

archie@archie.kuis.kyoto u.ac.jp Japan<br />

archie@archie.sogang.ac.kr Korea<br />

archie@archie.nz New Zealand<br />

archie@archie.luth.se Sweden<br />

archie@archie.ncu.edu.tw Taiwan<br />

archie@archie.rutgers.edu U.S.A.<br />

Put the word HELP in the body of your mail for instructions.<br />

To access Archie by telnet, just turn the addresses above into telnet addresses, like<br />

in this example:<br />

telnet://archie.funet.fi Finland<br />

Archie is also available from the following Archie Web server page:<br />

http://www polisci.tamu.edu/lab/archie.htm<br />

ASP (Active Server Pages)<br />

Dynamic ASP scripts add user interactivity and convenience to web pages. <strong>The</strong> result is<br />

programmable web pages that mix HTML, ODBC database reading and writing, and<br />

other services.Active Server Pages script resource: http://www.vra.net/code/.<br />

Backbone<br />

Internet's data flows on high speed lines called backbone lines. A high speed line or<br />

series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. <strong>The</strong> term is relative<br />

as a backbone in a small network will likely be much smaller than many non backbone<br />

lines in a large network.<br />

Bandwidth<br />

<strong>The</strong> amount of frequencies a device can handle. <strong>The</strong> amount of bandwidth a channel is<br />

capable of carrying tells you what kinds of communications can be carried on it. In<br />

computer mediated communications, bandwidth is often used when talking about<br />

conference users' capacity for reading, digesting and responding to conference items.<br />

Bot<br />

is short for "roBot" in popular Internet language. Netters also use terms like IRC<br />

roBOTS, Software Agents, InfoBots, Intelligent Agents, <strong>World</strong> Wide Web Bots,<br />

Wanderers, and Spiders. You'll find a Bot FAQ file with many links to more information.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re's also interesting information at the UMBC's AgentWeb.<br />

Browser<br />

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