The Online World resources handbook

Web/Internet tools and pointers http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v6.html
Web Forums
are also called Browser Message Boards. They are conference systems using Web
technology. Users must visit a particular website for each web forum to read messages
from others and post their own.
See http://bbs.augsburg.edu/~schwartz/ebbs.html for a list of BBS Sites on the Internet,
including Web browser message boards. Several Web forums are indexed at
Reference.COM.
Winsock
The Windows Socket standard. An application programming interface (API) designed to
let Windows applications (such as a Web browser) run over a TCP/IP network.
Requires a direct connection to the Internet, or access to a SLIP, or PPP server.
With Winsock, you can simultaneously run several applications that make use of the
Internet.
There is a fine introduction to Winsock in the alt.winsock FAQ. The Winsock
Application FAQ can be retrieved by email to info@LCS.com, Subject: FAQ.
For more information, check out the newsgroup comp.protocols.tcp ip.ibmpc and
alt.winsock.
WWW (World Wide Web)
A global information service that provides top level access down to documents, lists,
databases, and services. It includes resources such as FTP, and Gopher.
To access the Web, use a browser program (often referred to as a "client." The
browser reads documents, and can fetch documents and files from other sources.
For a comparative list of Graphics Web browsers, go to the WWW Servers
Comparison Chart page. For DOS based Web browsers and tools, see
http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/.
If at all interested in the web's history, you must visit Deja Vu!
The Scout Toolkit page will help you identify the network tools most appropriate for
your needs. Netscape and Microsoft Explorer are not the only browser programs that
will let you use the web. For example, Lynx may be good for some dial up users with
slow access to the Internet, or for users with old computers.
Web pages may be retrieved by electronic mail (Chapter 12). These services are
mostly for retrieval of text. Generally, most of them cannot retrieve large files
containing graphics, sound, or other types of binary files.
For comprehensive information about the web, start at http://www.w3.org. A Word
:LGH :HE )UHTXHQWO\ $VNHG 4XHVWLRQV file about WWW is available, while updates are
posted to news.answers, comp.infosystems.gopher, comp.infosystems.wais and
alt.hypertext.
Netcraft counts the number of hosts providing a Web service (http service) on
computers connected to Internet. Here's some figures showing the growth:
Year Month # of Web sites % growth
1995 August 18,957
1996 August 342,081 1,800%
1997 August 1,269,800 371%
1998 August 2,807,588 221%
1999 August 7,078,194 252%
2000 August 19,823,296 280%
2001 August 30,775,624 155%
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