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Interpersonal

• Audio

  These are Internet phone systems--could also enable group communication in most cases

  • 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)
• Chat Systems

  Definition: A Chat system can be used for live discussion; some systems involve multimedia (text, audio, video, etc.).

  • Global Stage: live commercial chat to the Internet (http://prospero.prospero.com/globalstage/)
• Email

  Definition: Email allows a user to send message(s) to another user (or many users via mailing lists).

  • 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)
• Talk

  Definition: Talk provides real-time interactive text with another user.

  • Talk man page: Unix manual page for talk: unix man talk
  • Talk demo: where user@host.domain is known: unix talk user@host.domain
• ZTalk

  Definition: Ztalk provides a low-bandwidth voice communication over tcp/ip networks.

  • Ztalk: TCP/IP Voice Communication (http://www.ssc.com/~roland/work/ztalk.html)
  • Ztalk source: (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/talk/)

Group

• Audio
  • Global Chat: a standalone program to give you chat with IRC or Global Stage servers (http://www.qdeck.com/chat/)
  • NetMeeting: phone and multipoint conferencing from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/)
  • 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)
• Collage

  Definition: Collage is a client/server group collaboration system which includes shared dialogue, text, and graphics spaces, from NCSA.

  • Collage source: for Mac, PC, and X, from NCSA (ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Visualization/Collage/)
• CU-SeeMe

  Definition: CU-SeeMe is a real-time, multiparty video-conferencing system for the Internet.

  • CU-SeeMe: home page of the real-time, multiparty video-conferencing system for the Internet; by the CU-SeeMe Development Team of the Advanced Technologies and Planning group of the Network Resources division of Cornell Information Technologies in cooperation with the members of the CU-SeeMe Consortium (http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu)
  • CU-SeeMe info: includes source code, and information (FAQ), from Cornell University (ftp://gated.cornell.edu/pub/video)
  • CU-SeeMe use: CU-SeeMe Video conferencing experiments (http://www.ludvigsen.dhhalden.no/webdoc/video.html)
  • Cu-SeeMe: Enhanced CU-SeeMe v2.0 for Windows (available for purchase) (http://www.cu-seeme.com)
• Haven

  Definition: A Haven is a network chat program that allows many people to talk to each other at once.

  • Haven newsgroup: (news:alt.internet.talk.haven)
• lily

  Definition: lily is a real-time text-based group conferencing system.

  • lily information: site for lily information, includes documentation and source code (http://www.lily.org)
• Listproc

  Definition: Listproc is a system that automates mailing lists and archives.

  • Anastasios Kotsikonas: Listproc creator: mail tasos@cs.bu.edu
• LISTSERV

  Definition: LISTSERV is a mailing-list program for group communication.

  • LISTSERV definition: the help file for listserv: mail listserv@uacsc2.albany.edu Body: "send listserv memo"
  • LISTSERV Home Page: reference to all LISTSERV discussion groups (http://www.tile.net/tile/listserv/index.html)
  • LISTSERV tips: : mail listserv@bitnic.bitnet Body: "get listserv tips"
  • LISTSERV searching: tips on searching a listserv discussion for information: mail listserv@ulkyvm.bitnet Body: "get database search"
  • LISTSERV managing: How to Start and Manage a BITNET LISTSERV Discussion Group, by Kovacs, McCarty, and Kovacs: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "get kovacs prv2n1"
  • LISTSERV tips: List Management Tips for LISTSERV Postmasters and List Owners, by Lisa M. Covi: mail listserv@bitnic.bitnet Body: "get listserv tips"
  • LISTSERV guide: The Listserv Guide for General Users: mail listserv@earncc.bitnet Body: "get lsvguide memo"
  • PAML: Publicly Available Mailing Lists, by Stephanie da Silva (http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml)
  • Search LISTSERV: search for interesting email lists to join (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists)
  • Search LISTSERV WAIS: WAIS-based search for a Usenet and LISTSERV conferences (wais://munin.ub2.lu.se:210/academic_email_conf)
  • Search LISTSERV gopher: searching and retrieval of archived LISTSERV messages (gopher://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu:70/11/library/disciplines/library/listgopher)
  • Dartmouth Merged SIGL: Special Interest Group Lists (ftp://dartcms1.dartmouth.edu/siglists/)
  • Electronic Conferences: Directory of Scholarly Electronic Conferences, by Diane K. Kovacs (ftp://ksuvxa.kent.edu/library/)
  • Search Academic Conferences: (wais://munin.ub2.lu.se:210/academic_email_conf)
• Majordomo

  Definition: Majordomo is a mailing list manager.

  • Majordomo: : mail Majordomo@GreatCircle.COM Body: "help"
  • Brent Chapman: creator of Majordomo: mail brent@greatcircle.com
  • Majordomo Problems: : mail Majordomo-Owner@mv.mv.com
• Maven

  Definition: Maven is a Mac-based audioconferencing tool.

  • Maven Info: a Mac-based audioconferencing tool; powerful when used in conjunction with, Cornell's CU-SeeMe (http://www.indstate.edu/msattler/sci-tech/comp/CU-SeeMe/faqs/mac-audio.html)
• MU

  MU = Multiple-User Dialogue/Domain/Dungeon and variants

  Definition: MUs are real-time interaction systems (usually text) traditionally used for social role-playing.

  Note: Variants include MUD, MUCK, MUSH, MUSE, MOO.

  Definition: A MOO is an object-oriented Multiple User Dialogue (MUD).

  • MU types: a discussion of differnet kinds of MU*s, by Eli Burke (http://csugrad.cs.vt.edu/soc/mud_types.html)
  • MUD FAQ: frequently asked questions and answers about MUDs (ftp://ftp.math.okstate.edu/pub/muds/misc/mud-faq/)
  • MUD Archive: documents pertaining to the history of MUDS, by Lauren P. Burka (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/USER/lpb/muddex.html)
  • MUD resources: includes many resources, documentation, general information, by Lydia Leong (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html)
  • MUD research: includes archives of Notes, Papers (archives from MIT, MediaMOO, Xerox PARC), and References (gopher://actlab.rtf.utexas.edu/11/MUD/Research)
  • MUD/Lysators: Info about Lysators MUDs, and MUDs in general (http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/nobw/mud/main.html)
  • MediaMoo: example of a MOO at MIT's Media Lab (telnet://purple-crayon.media.mit.edu:8888)
  • Diversity University: example of MOO used for education (telnet://erau.db.erau.edu:8888)
  • Moo/Web-JHM: Jay's House Moo, a Moo with some Web access and interaction (http://jh.ccs.neu.edu:7043)
  • Moo/Web(forms)-WAXWEB: Mosaic users can interact with a Moo (http://bug.village.virginia.edu)
  • mmMoo: multimedia MOO (http://www.peg.apc.org/~firehorse/mmm/mmm.html)
  • Moo Gopher blurb: a short description of Moo gopher at Jay's House Moo (ftp://mailbase.ac.uk/pub/lists/unite/files/jays_house.txt)
  • Moo info: a collection of MOO information, answers, documentation, paper archives (gopher://actlab.rtf.utexas.edu/11/MUD/MOO)
  • Moo papers/Xerox: a collection of information and papers about Moos (ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO)
  • Moo papers/MIT: information and papers from MIT Lab's MediaMOO (ftp://media.mit.edu/pub/MediaMOO)
  • Yahoo List: (http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Games/MUDs__MUSHes__MUSEs__MOOs__etc_/)
  • MUD Announcements: an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup for general announcements related to MU*s (news:rec.games.mud.announce)
  • MUD Administration: an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup for MU* administration issues (news:rec.games.mud.admin)
  • MUD Miscellaneous: an unmoderated Usenet newsgroup for miscellaneous MU* issues (news:rec.games.mud.misc)
• Pow-wow

  Definition: Pow-wow allows up to seven people to chat; exchange files; and travel the Web together; works with Windows.

  • PowWow: The PowWow page from Tribal Voice (http://www.tribal.com/powwow/default.htm)
• Procmail

  Definition: Procmail is a mail manager--create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort your incoming mail.

  • Procmail source: (ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/procmail/)
  • Procmail mailinglist: : mail procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
• WIT = Web Interactive Talk

  Definition: Web Interactive Talk is a means to create a shared discussion space in hypertext on a number of topics and threads.

  • WIT: W3 Interactive Talk, a forms-based discussion system (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/WIT/User/Overview.html)
  • Example WIT session: an example of a WIT, branching off into many threads (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Discussion)
• WebChat

  Definition: Live (text) chat via the World Wide Web.

  • WebChat: live text chat via the Web, using HTML Forms capability, an experiment of Digital Equipment Corporation and the Internet Roundtable (http://webchat.service.digital.com)
  • WWW Chat Forums: from the Columbus Home Page (http://www.ohiocap.com/Chat/)
• WW = Web World

  Definition: A Web World is a virtual community enabled by the interactive HTML Forms (Interactive Webbing, see below).

  • DC: Digital City, a digital landscape (http://dc.viper.net/fun/dc/)
  • FortuneCity: The city that never sleeps-- houses, apartments, shops, a radio station and even elected city officials. (http://www.FortuneCity.com)
• Yarn

  Definition: Yarn is a text-based networked meeting system.

  • Yarn web: Yarn User Manual (http://dstc.bond.edu.au:91776/YarnMan.html)

Mass

• Audio

  Definition: Systems to present real-time sound broadcasts over the Internet.

  • RealAudio: (http://www.RealAudio.com)
  • Global Chat: ICB is an internet teleconferencing application which allows Internet users to communicate. #HTTP at/ %CHECKED 16-Jul-1996 #SUB-SUB-SECTION ICB = Internet Citizen's Band # Definition (http://icb.sjsu.edu/~kzin/icb.html)
  • ICB FAQ: : mail majordomo@majordomo.bbn.com Body: "get icb-social ICB-FAQ"
• IW = Interactive Webbing

  Definition: Interactive Webbing gives people a common space for network distributed multimedia writing.

  • CoCo: Collaborative Cork Board (http://ean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Codes/CoCoBoard/)
  • Related Projects: some other WWW projects that let readers see feedback from others (http://union.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HyperNews/get/www/collab/conferencing.html)
  • Ping: a global communication experiment in multimedia created by users (http://www.artcom.de/ping/mapper)
• IRC = Internet Relay Chat

  Definition: IRC provides real-time, many-many text discussion divided into channels.

  • IRC definition: Internet Relay Chat Protocol, by Oikarinen and Reed (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1459.txt)
  • IRC Help: includes an overview, client/server pointers, and general information, including links to reference manuals; recommended (http://www.irchelp.org)
  • IRC connections: tells you basics of IRC and sites available via telnet (http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/irc/connect.html)
  • IRC discussion: an unmoderated Usenet discussion about IRC (news:alt.irc)
  • IRC recovery: an umoderated Usenet discussion group about weaning oneself off of IRC (news:alt.irc.recovery)
• ITR = Internet Talk Radio

  Definition: ITR is an audio multicast on the Internet.

  • ITR FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions on ITR (Usenet FAQ) (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet-talk-radio/)
  • ITR FAQ via email: Frequently Asked Questions on ITR: mail info@radio.com
  • ITR ftp site: Internet Talk Radio information, including intro and FAQ (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/talk-radio/)
  • ITR Web: general information, and connections to broadcast archives (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/radio/radio.html)
  • ITR sites: a partial listing of places to download ITR information and broadcasts: mail sites@radio.com
  • ITR discussion: an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about ITR (news:alt.internet.talk-radio)
• lily

  Definition: lily is a real-time text-based group conferencing system.

  • lily information: site for lily information, includes documentation and source code (http://www.lily.org)
• Mbone

  Definition: Mbone is a live audio and video multicast virtual network on top of Internet.

  • MBONE Home Page: (http://www.eit.com/techinfo/mbone/mbone.html)
  • Mbone FAQ (text): Virtual Internet Backbone for Multicast IP (ftp://venera.isi.edu/mbone/faq.txt)
  • Mbone FAQ Web: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on the Multicast Backbone (MBONE) (http://www.research.att.com/mbone-faq.html)
  • Mbone Tools: lists suite of tools used with Mbone (http://www.eit.com/techinfo/mbone/mbone.html)
  • Mbone Intro: (http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/mice/mbone_review.html)
• Usenet

  Definition: USENET provides asynchronous text discussion on many topics separated into newsgroups.

  • USENET Info Center: a one-stop, comprehensive source of information about Usenet, including help files, browsing and searching tools, FAQs, and other Usenet indexes and Services (http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/)
  • USENET FAQs: collection of frequently answer questions and answers about Usenet (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.announce.newusers/)
  • NNTP: Network News Transfer Protocol, by Kantor and Lapsley (February 1986) (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc0977.txt)
  • Usenet FAQs/rtfm: news.groups FAQ directory (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.groups/)
  • Usenet FAQs/hyper: a hypertext list of all USENET FAQs found in news.answers (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html)
  • Usent FAQ search: (http://www.zerosix.nl/cgi-bin/faq)
  • Usenet filter: personalized netnews delivery service (http://woodstock.stanford.edu:2000)
  • Usenet filter: personalized netnews delivery service: mail netnews@db.stanford.edu Body: "help"
  • Usenet post via email: post to newsgroup via email: mail hierarchy-group-name@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Your Subject Body: "Your Contents"
  • Usenet via WWW: access newsgroups via WWW (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/News/Groups/Overview.html)
  • Usenet connections: publicly accessible news servers, including gopher access to Usenet, by Arnold Lesikar (list removed; however, instructions are given on how to locate these) (gopher://tigger.stcloud.msus.edu:79/0lesikar)
  • Usenet periodics: list of Usenet periodic postings (gopher://stavanger.sgp.slb.com:79/0nichol)
  • Usenet posters: find when and from what host person with name FIRST LAST posted to Usenet: mail mail-server@rtfm.MIT.EDU Body: "send usenet-addresses/FIRST LAST"
  • Discussion Beginners: for people new to USENET (news:news.announce.newusers)
  • Discussion humor: an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about humorous Usenet posts (news:alt.humor.best-of-usenet)
  • Discussion culture: an unmoderated Usenet discussion group about Usenet practices, people, issues (news:alt.culture.usenet)
  • Usenet reader: nn, xrn)mand for hosts with newsreader, rn (other readers: unix rn newsgroup-name

Interfaces

• exMOO

  Definition: exMOO is a graphical user interface to a MU*

  • ExMOO Home Page: (http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/exMOO/HOME.html)
• htMUD

  Definition: htMUD is a distributed graphical tinymud combining telnet and web forms client windows.

  • htMUD Home Page: (http://www.elf.com/~phi/htmud.html)
• MUTT

  Definition: is a Winsock based MUD client.

  • MUTT(tm): Mutli-User Trivial Terminal (http://www.graphcomp.com/mutt/mutt.html)