Notice: This file is archived for historical purposes only and is not being updated. Please see the index for updates.
- Audio
- Dialweb: control your Web site via telephone; publish audio via telephone (http://www.tc.net)
- Clearphone: High resolution video and voice for the Macintosh (http://www.kaiwan.com/~radiobob/)
- CoolTalk: Another plug-in for Netscape Navigator (http://home.netscape.com)
- Digiphone: phone calls on the Internet; conferencing calling (http://www.planeteers.com)
- FreeTel: software is free; talk is free; you just have to listen to the ads; you can pay to have them go away (http://freetel.inter.net/freetel)
- Global Chat: a standalone program to give you chat with IRC or Global Stage servers (http://www.qdeck.com/chat/)
- IBM Internet Connection Phone: talk, send data, collaborate on a single phone line via the Internet (http://www.ibm.com/internet/icphone/)
- IPhone: phone, conferencing, and broadcasting via the Internet (http://www.vocaltec.com)
- Intel Internet Phone: an audio Web phone; works with Microsoft Explorer or Netscape Navigator. (http://www.intel.com/iaweb/cpc/)
- Net2Phone: to place domestic and international calls from a personal computer to any telephone in the world. Developed by IDT Corporation (http://www.net2phone.com)
- NetMeeting: phone and multipoint conferencing from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/)
- Onlive!: 3D Voice Chat (http://www.entertv.com)
- PGPfone: turns your desktop or notebook computer into a secure telephone (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone)
- PowWow: up to seven people can chat, send and receive files, and cruise the World Wide Web together as a group (http://www.tribal.com)
- TS Intercom: talk on the Internet (http://www.telescape.com)
- TeleVox: Speech travels with fewer gaps, less jitter, and shorter delays; from Voxware (http://www.voxware.com)
- VDOPhone: real-time video and audio (http://www.vdo.net)
- WebPhone: many features, includes voice-mail, encrypted (http://www.itelco.com)
- WebTalk: from Quarterdeck (http://www.qdeck.com)
These are Internet phone systems--could also enable group communication in most cases
- Chat Systems
- Global Stage: live commercial chat to the Internet (http://prospero.prospero.com/globalstage/)
Definition: A Chat system can be used for live discussion; some systems involve multimedia (text, audio, video, etc.).
- Email
- SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0821.txt)
- Email 101: describes how to use email as well as other Internet features, by John Goodwin (ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/etext/etext93/email025.txt)
- Finding Email addresses: how do I find someone's email address? (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/docs/about-the-net/libsoft/email_address.txt)
- College Email addresses: information on email addresses at colleges (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/soc.college/)
- InterNetwork Mail: methods of sending mail from one network to another, by John Chew and Scott Yanoff (ftp://ftp.csd.uwm.edu/pub/internetwork-mail-guide)
- InterNetwork Mail guide via WWW: (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/inmgq.pl)
- Email info: repository of types of email interfaces and tools (ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/)
- Email demo: Unix (UCB) mail command: unix mail user@host.domain
- Email tools: how to retrieve files from FTP sites, explore the Internet via Gopher, search for information with Archie, Veronica, or WAIS, tap into the World-Wide Web, and even access Usenet newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL, by 'Doctor Bob' Rankin (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email)
- Email services: a variety of services offered through an email account, by Doug Langley; please don't overuse: mail dlangley@netcom.com Subject: #help"
- POPmail: (ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/POPmail/)
- Eudora email: for Mac and Windows (ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/)
- Eudora info: (http://wwwhost.cc.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/doc/micro08.html)
- MetaMail: multimedia (ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/README)
- Hypermail: An EMail to HTML compiler (http://gummo.stanford.edu/html/hypermail/hypermail.html)
- MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (http://sodom.mt.cs.cmu.edu/toad-ht/mime.html)
- MIME: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions--RFC 1521 and RFC 1522 (http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/MIME.html)
- Pine info center: links to various Pine help texts, the FAQ, feature descriptions, discussion archives and the files to download (http://www.cac.washington.edu/pine/)
- PGP Mail: Pretty Good Privacy, a public key encryption package (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html)
- PGP/PEM: allow you to communicate in a way which does not allow third parties to read messages, certify that the person who sent the message is really who they claim they are (http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/PEMPGP.html)
- PEM: Privacy Enhanced Email (ftp://ftp.tis.com/pub/PEM/FAQ)
- RIPEM: Riordan's Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail (http://cs.indiana.edu/ripem/dir.html)
Definition: Email allows a user to send message(s) to another user (or many users via mailing lists).
- Talk
- Talk man page: Unix manual page for talk: unix man talk
- Talk demo: where user@host.domain is known: unix talk user@host.domain
Definition: Talk provides real-time interactive text with another user.
- ZTalk
- Ztalk: TCP/IP Voice Communication (http://www.ssc.com/~roland/work/ztalk.html)
- Ztalk source: (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/talk/)
Definition: Ztalk provides a low-bandwidth voice communication over tcp/ip networks.